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quinquenervia, dura, firmia, erectiufcula, 3, 

 4, 5-unciaIia, verfus apicern contorta, petio 

 lata, nervo niedio fubaculeato: aculeis 1, 

 2, 3, parvis interdum inermia. Petiolus 

 patens, brevis, femiuncialis,bafi crafllfTimus, 

 h. e. e tuberculo fenfim prodiens, latus, 

 inargine membranaceo, femiamplexicauli, 

 membrana finna tamen ; fubtus convexus, 

 angulo carinatus parvo, fubinermi vel fer- 

 ratulo, vel glabro vel fpinula una alteraque 

 notatus apice furium curvus. 



i. MARTIL 



170. MUSA had fruit, but fome bloflbms 

 were ftill on it. I found 5 ftamina with a 

 rudiment of a 6th in the ne&arium of 

 the male flowers, and the fame in the 

 hermaphrodite flowers. I could obferve 

 no difference, except that thofe in the 

 male flowers were narrower. 



II. To-day I caught in a hollow tree a Rohi- 

 pehdo or Mapeha as the Indians call it. It is 

 Dr. Linnaus's DIDELPHIS, fo remarkable 

 on account of the pouch wherein it keeps 

 its young ones ; many think this pouch to 

 be the Uterus Amoen Acad, and Muf. Reg. 

 That which we caught, was a male. Its 

 penis was big between the hind legs, round 

 and naked, but cloven like the foot of a 

 C c 3 cov/ 



