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Stamens five. Fruit angled, the seed large, hard, and similar in shape to 
the other species. 
It is a very remarkable banana which was brought to me entire from 
Tanauan. The wise and industrious Sr. Azaola, who has helped me so 
much with his information in shaping this work, had already given me an 
account of this banana. It is known in the Province of Laguna and 
in Tanauan; and the most remarkable thing about it is its stem, which 
enlarges a little above the ground, assuming the shape of a common Phil- 
ippine water jar, bigger than a human body. From this peculiarity I 
derived the name of the species. Furthei’more, above this enlargement the 
stem becomes slender like other banana plants to which they are similar in 
leaves, flowers, racemes, and fruits. The seeds, however, are much larger, 
and the natives use them for making very ugly rosary beads. In the 
Province of Laguna they call this banana Virgen. 
Baker’s description follows: 17 
11. M. glauca, Roxb. Not stoloniferous. Trunk cylindrical, 10-12 feet 
high, 6-8 inches diameter. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, 4-5 feet long 
pale and glaucous; shortly petioled. Spike drooping from the base; bracts 
greenish, persistent. Fruits oblong, 4-5 inches long, 1J inches diameter; 
truncate at the apex, narrowed gradually to the sessile base. Seeds smooth, 
globose, nearly black, J-inch diameter. Pegu; introduced to the Calcutta 
Botanical Garden by Mr. F. Carey in 1810. This has flowers like M. super- 
ba, and a cylindrical trunk like M. sapientum. Roxburgh in his Coromandel 
Plants, iii. 96, adds, “Like my M. superba it never produces suckers, conse- 
quently it must be reared from seed, which it furnishes in great abundance; 
the fruit containing little else, even fit for a monkey to eat.” 
MUSA COCCINEA Andr. Red-flowered banana. 
The red-flowered banana is an ornamental plant. The species 
is described by Baker as follows: 18 
*30. M. coccinea, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 47 ; Bot. Mag. 1. 1559; North Gallery, 
No. 696. Stem stoloniferous, slender, finally 4-5 feet high. Rachis erect. 
Spike dense, erect; bracts bright red or tipped with yellow. Fruit oblong- 
trigonous, not edible. Seeds very small. Distribution : — Southern China 
and Cochin China. In the latter country it is called Chuoi tau. Introduced 
into cultivation in 1791 and now widely spread. Specimens of fibre prepared 
from this species are in the Kew Museum from Jamaica, prepared by 
Nathaniel Wilson, and also from Mauritius. 
Occasional in Philippine gardens. 
MUSA TEXTILIS Nee. Manila hemp, abaca. Plate XVIII, figs. 6-10. 
Musa abaca Perr. 
Musa mindanaensis Rumph. 
Musa trogloditarum textoria Blanco. 
Stoloniferous from the base, producing from 10 to 15 flowering 
stems in a stool. Trunk cylindric, usually green, measuring 
17 Kew Bull., Add. ser. VI pt. 2 (1906) 17. 
18 Kew Bull., Add. ser. VI pt. 2 (1906) 30. 
