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Genera and Species of Mttseae . 
Genus 4. Musa, Lhi 7 i . 
Flowers unisexual, only those of the lower clusters producing fruit. 
Calyx at first tubular, soon slit down one side, 3-5-toothed at 
the apex. Petal placed opposite the calyx, simple or tri- 
cuspidate. Perfect Stamens 5 ; filaments filiform ; anthers 
2-celled, basifixed ; rudiment of sixth stamen present or absent. 
Ovary cylindrical, 3-celled : ovules many in a cell, superposed ; 
style filiform from a thickened base ; stigma shortly lobed. 
Fruit indehiscent, pulpy or dry, oblong or cylindrical. Seeds 
subglobose or angled by pressure, often excavated at the 
hilum ; testa hard, intruded at the base and apex ; albumen 
farinaceous; embryo subtruncate. — Monocarpic shrubs with 
cylindrical or bottle-shaped trunks, often stoloniferous at the 
base. Leaves large, oblong, entire ; free petiole long or short. 
Panicle of many clusters of flowers, spaced out on the rachis 
and each subtended by a large spathaceous scariose bract. 
Flowers usually white or yellow. 
Key to the sections and species. 
Subgenus Physocaulis. Stem bottle-shaped. Flowers many to 
a bract. Petal usually tricuspidate. Fruit not edible. 
Tropical African ...... Sp. 1-5. 
Indian ........ Sp. 6-7. 
Subgenus Eumusa. Stem cylindrical. Flowers many to a bract. 
Petal ovate-acuminate. Bracts green, brown, or dull violet. 
Fruit usually edible. 
Dwarf Sp. 8-10. 
Tall (group of M. sapientuni ) . . . . Sp. n-21. 
Subgenus Rhodochlamys. Stem cylindrical. Flowers few to a 
bract. Petal linear. Fruit usually not edible. Bracts bright- 
coloured, often red Sp. 22-32. 
Subgenus Physocaulis. 
1. M. Ensete, Gmel. Syst. Nat. II, 567 ; Hook, in Bot. Mag. 
t. 5223-4 ; Rev. Hort. 1861, 124 ; Flore des Serres, t. 1418 ; 
Gard. Chron. 1881, 434, fig. 84; Miss North's drawings, 
No. 516; Ensete edule , Horan. Prodr. 40. Whole plant 
