A Synopsis of the Genera and Species 
of Museae. 
BY 
J. G. BAKER, F.R.S., F.L.S. 
Keeper of the Herbarium , Royal Gardens , Kew. 
Key to the Genera. 
* Flowers hermaphrodite . 
1. Helieonia. Ovules solitary in the cells. Leaves not distichous. 
Tropical America. 
2. Strelitzia. Ovules many in each cell. Leaves distichous. Petals 
very unequal, two connate in a sagittate blade with a narrow 
haft. Cape Colony. 
3. Ravenala. Ovules many in each cell. Leaves distichous. Petals 
nearly equal. Madagascar , Guiana , and North Brazil. 
* * Flowers unisexual. 
4. Musa. Flowers of the upper clusters male, deciduous. Warmer 
regions of the Old World. 
Genus i. Heliconia, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 3, lanceolate, equal; one free, the 
two others more or less adnate at the base to the corolla. 
Petals united in a unilateral tube which is 3-toothed at the top, 
and placed opposite the free sepal. Perfect Stamens 5, attached 
high up in the corolla-tube; filaments short; anthers linear, basi- 
fixed ; sixth stamen represented by a small petaloid staminode 
[Annals of Botany, Vol. VII. No. XXVI. June 1893.] 
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