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MÁRI-bhóg or mohun-bhóg. mgr esteemed by some, but probably 
not much superior to the kuntél 
Rám kela. ln good condro a remarkably fine fruit, much resem- 
bling in flavour and buttery consistency the daccáe. The stem and 
footstalks and midribs of a dark red colour. Also the flowers. The 
fruit is about 7 inches long and rather thin. This Firminger names Musa 
rubra, now reduced as a variety of M. sapientum. On “the T hand 
M. rubra of Wallich is a seed-bearing species allied to M. cocci 
arf or Chinese Plantain [ M. Cavendishii]. In Calcutta, this is 
exceedingly difficult to obtain in perfection, as it is uneatable ‘till quite 
ripe, and on its becoming ripe commences almost immediately to decay. 
observed, «f well manured the fruit of this tree is one of the best 
plantains there is; the old trees yield particularly fine fruit.” Besides 
the above, Captain Ripley sent to Calcutta eighteen other named am " 
plantains from Arracan, of oe of which he wrote in high co 
dation. The moungbya has the skin “ of a dead white and very thick." - 
eren Ripley was acquainted with 19 kinds, d by him 
a c in the Proceedings of the Agri.-Hort, Soc. India, x., 
ir "50, 5 
l 
Nothing further is uo of this plant. Specimens of it are desirable 
for herbarium pur 
nthe Punjab the Dun which may be a true plantain (M. pr: 
is largel n towards the east of the plains of this province. 
are fewer varieties and the quality of the fruit is poorer in the Punjab 
than to the east and south. At Mussooree, in the North Western Pro- 
vinces, there are only three kinds of bananas cultivated. These are 
rai kela, bara kela, and chota kela. In Oudh the only plantain 
that flourishes i is a large-fruited one called desee kela. A small sweet 
fruit called ed jmritban, probably a loeal corruption of Martaban, and the 
cheenee champa or red Bombay, are also grown, but neither thrives well. 
CEYLON. 
Moon, in his eatalogue of Ceylon plants, gives only the Singh e 
names and their English equivalents. His list of bananas (pp. 71-72) 
omprises as many as 47 kinds, thus bone Ceylon richest in 
wasetiee, - Indian Archipelago alone excepte 
a paradisiaca (“ anawálu- kesal ” of the Singhalese) Moon 
leise the following :—Wild, growing on the mountains: anawdlu- 
kesel an wed (seed), and anawálu-kesel-gal (rock). Cultivated: 
are names e following English equivalents: sour, sooty, parrot, 
black, buffalo, nei lion, and monkey. 
of Mid pe [s kesel" of the Singhalese) there are wild, 
untains: Aesel ael (hill), kesel aeta (seed), kesel 
titta- aliad Vnii). kesel wal-suwanda (wild-fragrant), and kesel 
wal-wanduru (wild-monkeys). Of the cultivated sorts belonging to 
this series Moon gives 25 under their Singhalese mee diis their 
equivalents. Amongst the latter are such names as r (kesel 
diya), black (kesel kalu), and others known as ear iM; ER 
Cicero golden, cracker, pingo, clustered, bitter. , fools, 
powdered, &c 
