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drum (1875). A fibre from " Jungle plantain (M. superhcC) " is shown 

 from Mangalore, the chief town of South Kanara, in the Madras 

 Presidency, and from the Botanic Gardens, Mauritius, Col.-Ind. 

 Exhibition, 1886. 



7. M. nepalensis, Wall. This is principally known from two large 

 unpublished drawings by Wallich now at Kew. It is not anywhere in 

 cultivation. Dr. King, F.R.S., in a letter dated Calcutta 22nd August 

 1893, writes : — " I do not believe in the existence of the species which 

 Wallich called M. nepalensis. I have never been able to hear of, or 

 find, any specimens of a big non-stoloniferous plantain on the lower 

 slopes of the Himalaya. I have made inquiries in Nepal where 

 Wallich says it grows. Wallich must have described Roxburgh's 

 M. glauca under the name nepalensis." 



Subgenus Eumusa. 

 True Musas. 



8. M. lasiocarpa, Franchet. A singular species only about 1-2 feet 

 high, known by I he Chinese of Yunnan as Ngay-tsiao (Rock banana). 



Muxa lasiocarpa, Franchet. 

 1. Whole plant (2 feet high) much reduced. 2. Section of rhizome surmounted 

 by persistent portions of leaf-sheaths. S. Fruit with seeds. 4. Flower. 5. Calyx 

 6. Petal. J 



