X, C, 6 
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above and glaucous below; the matured blades from 215 to 260 
cm long and from 74 to 80 cm wide; the petioles purple, 57 to 75 
cm in length. 
The spike bears 3 to several hands of matured fruits. 
The flowers (Plate XV, figs. 6, 7, and 8) are large, from 6 to 
6.5 cm long and from 1 to 1.4 cm wide ; the perigonium is partly 
shaded with purplish toward the base, sinuses shallow ; the scale 
is white, scarious-margined, deeply depressed on the surface, 
acute at tip, nearly ovate; stamens as long as perigonium or 
pistil; stigma oblong-lobed. Fruits from 10 to 14 cm long, from 
5 to 6 cm in diameter; skin thick, purple or red; pulp fine and 
soft, cream-colored, and with a strong, banana flavor. Average 
weight of a mature fruit, 61.12 grams. 
Blanco’s description of this species is as follows: 26 
The fruit is almost round, as thick as the wrist and has the length of 
a good ternate banana. The taste is similar, and I believe that the ternate 
does not have any advantage over it. This banana is recently known in 
Manila, and I do not know from where it has come. 
MUSA SAPI ENTU M L. var. GLABERRIMA (Blanco). Durogo. Plate 
XV, figs. 1-5. 
Musa paradisiaca glaberrima Blanco. 
This variety resembles the morado and differs from the latter 
only in a few respects, particularly in the flowers. The scale is 
rounded on the surface without thin scarious margin, but pos- 
sesses a long, narrow, acute tip like that the morado. 
The fruits are larger than in the morado and are only partly 
shaded with purplish. The spike usually bears 4 or more hands 
of matured fruits. The skin is thicker, and the pulp, like that of 
the morado, is sweet, fine, soft, of a cream color, and of strong 
banana flavor. The average weight of the mature fruit is 70.64 
grams. 
A translation of Blanco’s discription follows : 27 
The fruit is as long as that of the saba, slender, angular, slightly dark 
pink, and very smooth; it is not very delicious. 
T., galamay senora, dinuguan. 
There is an error on Blanco’s part in the inclusion of galamay 
senora, and the variety glaberrima must be used as applying only 
to dinuguan. The Tagalog name durogo is synonymous with 
dinuguan. Galamay senora is a different variety. 
26 Fl. Filip, ed. 2 (1845) 171. 
” FI. Filip, ed. 2 (1845) 171. 
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