x, c. 6 Teodoro: Philippine Bananas 403 
petioles from 35 to 36 cm long; the petioles are often black- 
spotted at the base. 
The spike generally produces 7 or 8 hands of mature fruits. 
The flowers (Plate IX, figs. 6, 7, and 8) are white, small, from 
4.5 to 5 cm long and from 0.4 to 0.6 cm wide, usually 16 to a 
fascicle; the perigonium with deep sinuses; the scale obovate 
with thin margin, two-thirds as long as perigonium, the apex 
abruptly acute, not very deeply shouldered, the surface somewhat 
rounded and slightly depressed near the apex. Stamens longer 
than perigonium or pistil, the anthers reddish in color ; the stigma 
shallowly lobed. 
The fruits are short and oblong, from 7 to 10 cm in length and 
from 2.5 to 3.5 cm in diameter, often 16 in a hand, yellow when 
ripe. The average weight of a mature fruit is 57.15 grams. 
The pulp is slightly acid with distinctly “apple” flavor and with 
creamy color at maturity. Style persistent. Skin very thin, 
probably the thinnest of any banana. 
This variety is considered to be one of the best among the 
first-class eating bananas. 
Blanco’s description of this variety is translated as follows: 29 
The fruit is small, with very thin skin of bluish color, oval in shape, 
without angles; sometimes it has a length of two inches or even as short 
as one, cylindrical, and very obtuse on both ends. Its flesh tastes 
between sour and sweet, delicate and delicious. 
T., bingticohol, tinalong. 
MUSA SAPIENTUM L. var. D ARY AO var. nov. Daryao, daliao. Plate 
VIII, figs. 1-5. 
Produces 5 or more rather slender flowering stems in a stool, 
reaches a height of from 220 to 240 cm, and has a diameter of 
from 12 to 13 cm at the base. Trunk is green with occasional 
blotches of black and purple. 
The leaves are thin and green with reddish margins; the 
matured blades are from 150 to 155 cm long and from 45 to 50 cm 
wide ; petioles green with reddish edges, from 40 to 50 cm long. 
The spike usually bears 6 hands of mature fruits. 
The flowers (Plate VIII, figs. 1, 2, and 5) are very small, white, 
usually 6 in a fascicle ; the scale is oblong with a long, wrinkled or 
ridged, acuminate tip, sometimes depressed on the surface, two- 
thirds as long as perigonium; the stamens are longer than the 
pistil, and as long as perigonium ; the stigma is elongate-oblong. 
The fruits are green, cylindrical, narrowed toward the long 
29 Fl. Filip, ed. 2 (1845) 175. 
