THE SCITAMINEiE OF THE PHILIPPINES. 
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erect, linear, 2-celled. Style filiform. Stigma capitate, 6-lobed. Fruit 
an oblong, fleshy, trigonous or cylindrical many seeded berry. 
Species 35, tropics of the world. 
There are no specimens of any species in the collection I have received, although 
many forms of Musa sapientum Linn, and M. paradisiaca Linn., occur in the Phil- 
ippines in cultivation, and doubtless some endemic species other than the follow- 
ing, the well-known Manila Hemp plant, Musa textilis, which I here describe from 
plants cultivated under that name in the Botanic Gardens at Singapore. 
M. textilis Nee Ann. Cienc. Nat. 4 (1801) 123; K. Sebum. Pflanzenreich 1 
(1900) 19. 
M. mindanensis Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 3 (1855) 588. 
M. sylvestris Colla Mem. Gen. Musa (1820) 58. 
M. troglodytarum var. tfextorxa Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 247. 
M. alaca Perr. Mem. Soc. Linn. Par. 3 (1824) 130. 
Stems tufted, cylindric, about 6 m tall, and 19 cm in girth. Leaves 
narrowly linear-oblong, cuspidate, 3 m long, 30 cm wide, nerves con- 
spicuous, parallel, light green on both sides; petiole long. Spike pen- 
dulous. Bracts lanceolate, obtuse, 20 cm long, 8 cm wide at the base, 
coriaceous, dull-brownish-red. Bud acute. Female flowers in three or 
four half- whorls, two rows in each whorl. Male flowers very numerous, 
in double whorls, 6 flowers in one series, 3 in the other, white; outer 
perianth-lobe 3 cm long, stiff, yellowish-white, base yellow, with three 
cuspidate teeth, recurved ; inner thinner, saccate, pure white, 2 cm long, 
apex truncate, with two denticulate lobes at the corners. Stamen- 
filaments linear, white, 2 cm long. Anther a little shorter, linear, cells 
brownish. Fruit subcylindric, narrowed at both ends. Seeds globose, 
flattened, small. 
Philippines. 
Musa cocci nea Andr. is cultivated as an ornamental plant the entire inflo- 
rescence cardinal-red, (Negros, Dumaguete, Elmer 7 836), a native of southern 
China and Cochinchina. 
Ravenala madagascariensis J. F. Gmel. the “traveller’s palm” is cultivated 
for ornamental purposes in Manila. 
