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sistent, odorous, and according to many people it has the supremacy over 
other species. In fact it seems that it has the flavor and odor of the 
bungulan with the consistency and wholesomeness of the ternate. 
T., lacatan. 
MUSA SAPIENTUM L. var. CANARA var. nov. Canara. Plate XII, 
figs. 6-10. 
The whole plant reaches a height of 223 cm and has a diam- 
eter of 14.5 cm at the base. The trunk is whitish green. 
The leaves are broad, deep, 164 cm long and 81 cm wide, very- 
brittle, all the leaves of the plant being usually transversely 
split by the wind and commonly rapidly drying up. The petioles 
are short, measuring only 37 cm in length. 
The spike bears 7 hands of mature fruits. 
The flowers (Plate XII, figs. 6, 7, and 9) are white with a 
greenish peduncle ; the scale is oblong with acute tip and scarious 
margin, depressed on the surface. The stamens are longer than 
the pistil. The stigma is shortly lobed. 
The fruits are closely packed together at right angles around 
the rachis, 12 mature fruits in a hand; the skin is thick but 
fragile, yellow when ripe, tapering toward the sessile base; 
the pulp is yellow, coarse, granular, not fibrous, mild in taste and 
strongly aromatic; the average weight of a mature fruit is 
140.25 grams. 
MUSA SAPIENTUM L. var. INARNIBAL var. nov. Inarnibal. Plate 
IX, figs. 1-5. 
Produces 11 or more slender cylindrical flowering stems in a 
stool. The whole reaches a height of 292 cm and has a diameter 
of 16 cm at the base. The trunk is characterized by a black 
epidermis. 
The leaves are thin, light green, often spoken of as yellowish 
green; the mature blades are 199 cm long and 53 cm wide, not 
glaucous below. 
The spike often bears from 5 to 7 hands of mature fruits. 
The flowers (Plate IX, figs. 1, 2, and 5) are small, white, usually 
19 in a fascicle, 4 cm long and 5 mm wide; the perigonium with 
deep sinuses; the scale is oblong, thin, with acute tip; the sur- 
face is often channeled or depressed, half as long as perigonium ; 
stamens longer than perigonium or pistil ; the stigma is elongate- 
oblong. 
The fruits are green, oblong and small, often slightly angled 
by depression. The fruits are arranged around the rachis in 
loose order, often 19 in a hand, from 6 to 7 cm long with a diam- 
eter of from 3 to 4 cm. The pulp is fine, sweet, and melting 
