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Genera and Species of Museae. 
with 4-6 seeds in each cell, which fill up the whole cavity. 
Mountains of Yunnan, alt. 4000 ft., Delavay. Franchet founds 
on this curious species a section called Musella , characterized 
by its membranous bracts and by possessing a rhizome. 
9. M. Cavendishii, Lamb, in Paxt. Mag. Ill, 51, with coloured 
figure; Garden, 1891, II, 263; M. chinensis , Sweet, Hort. 
Brit. ed. 2, 596 (name only) ; Miss North’s drawings, Nos. 225, 
816; M. sinensis , Sagot. Stoloniferous. Whole plant 4-6 ft. 
high. Stem 2-3 ft. long, 3-4 in. diam. Leaves 6-8 in a dense 
rosette, spreading, oblong, 2-3 ft. long, about a foot broad, 
much rounded at the base, rather glaucous ; petiole short, 
stout, deeply channelled, with two broad crisped green edges. 
Peduncle short, stout. Panicle dense, oblong, 1-2 ft. long, 
drooping ; bracts red-brown or dark brown, ovate, the lower 
half a foot long, the upper 3-4 in.; male flowers and their 
bracts persistent. Calyx yellowish-white, an inch long, with 
5 rounded lobes. Petal ovate, entire, less than half as long. 
Fruits as many as 200-250 to a panicle, oblong, 6-angled, 
slightly curved, 4-5 in. long, above i| in. diam., obtuse, narrowed 
gradually to the sessile base, seedless, edible, with a rather 
thick skin and delicate fragrant flesh. Seeds not known. 
Southern China. Introduced into cultivation by Telfair from 
Mauritius in 1829. The wild seed-bearing form is not yet 
known. M. Massoni, Sagot Musa 2 1 (name only), supposed to 
be wild at the Gaboon and cultivated in Bourbon, is said to 
be like Cavendishii , but with slightly different fruits. 
10. M. nana, Lour. FI. Cochinch. 644. Trunk cylindrical, 5 ft. long, 
J ft. diam. Leaves oblong-ovate, 3 ft. long. Panicle short, 
recurved. Flowers all fertile. Stamens often 6 or more. 
Fruit ovate-oblong, edible, seedless. Cochin China, Loureiro . 
Unknown to M. Pierre. It may be a form M. Cavendishii , 
Lamb., with a taller stem and staminate flowers abortive. 
I know nothing also of M. Rhinozerotis , Kurz, in Journ. Agric.- 
Hort. Soc. Ind. V, 64 \ which is said to be like M. nana , but ' 
to have the sheaths of all the leaves enveloping one another, 
persistent bracts and flowers all fertile. 
11. M. glauea, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 19; Corom. PI. t. 300. Not 
1 The elaborate paper of Kurz, above cited, was unfortunately cut short by his 
death, so that the full descriptions of his new species never appeared. 
