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and purplish-brown, yellow inside ; fruit 24 inches long, 2 inch 
diameter, faintly ribbed; seeds few, black, soft, + inch diameter, 
surrounded by copious sweet pulp. Does not rise above 1,500 
feet. 
Dr. King thinks the two latter forms are likely to be distinct 
Pon from sapientum. His Hookeri is probably M. sikkimensis, 
n the Kew Museum is a dried complete bunch of fruit marked M. 
cliffortiana, which, no doubt, represents the wild Vent capere state of 
. M. sapientum. The fruits, densely crowded together in the spike are 
about 3 inches long, about $ inch diameter, and comple etelf 1 filled with 
. seeds. This specimen was presented to Kew by the late D. Hanbury, 
F.R.S., in 1867. 
Sub-genus Rhodochlamys. 
Red-bracteated Musas. 
24. M. maculata, Jacg. Stem slender, 7-8 feet high. Leaves green 
above glaucous beneath ; petiole 1 foot long. Bracts yellowish- 
brown ; ‘flowers our in uster. Fruit oblong, 2-3 inches long, 1 inch 
diameter, narrowed oridialiy to the sessile "pase and apex, yellow, 
spotted with brown, eatable, spem ume ei te. suede nly as 
cultivated in Mauritius and Bourbon, it called Figue 
mignonne. Ditters from the other species Meng this P beer by its 
eatabie fruit. 
. M. sumatrana, Beccari. Whole plant 7-8 feet high. Stem. 
slender. Leaves glaucous with irregular blotches of claret.brown. 
Hachis hairy. Dried fruit cylindrical, curved, 2-3 inches long, $ inch 
diam. Distribution :—Sumatra, province of Padang, alt. 1,100 feet, 
Beccari. Cultivated in India. Its affinity i is with M. rosacea, Jacq. 
sample of the fibre prepared from the stem of this species is in the Kew 
Museum from Mr. R. Derry, Malacca, 1889. 
26. M. M eser Ridley. Stem cylindricai slender, 8 to 10 feet 
high. Leaves glaucous beneath, 10 inches wide with a stout midrib. 
3 inches long, an inch front angular; seeds 4 inch long, not angular. 
Hide oc ogee Peninsula, Pahang, elap ngor, and Sungei 
Ujong. s plant is diifquisiod by its eree most erect spadix 
of which the [CHER are remarkably one and narrow, acuminate and of. 
a violet colour like that of a injal.” The flowers a are few and 
arranged in single rows in each oe. sometimes the bracts are persistent 
after the flowers are fallen and hang down. ad seeds are residen: 
and not angled and irregular as is the common banana and M. 
malaccensis. Although placed under ^ Berani Rhodochlamys the 
petal has the form of the section Fumus 
. M. rosacea, Jacg. Bot. Reg. t. 706; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 616 
M. iun Roxb.; M. speciosa, Tenore ; M. Caroline, Sterler. Sila: 
