2io Baker . — A Synopsis of the 
stoloniferous. Trunk cylindrical, 10-12 ft. long, 6-8 in. diam. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, 4-5 ft. long, pale and glaucous, 
shortly petioled. Panicle drooping from the base ; bracts 
greenish, persistent, the upper ovate, the lower ovate -lanceolate. 
Flowers 10—20 to a bract. Calyx whitish, about an inch long ; 
segments 3, loosely coherent, linear. Petal small, tricuspidate, 
with a large linear central cusp. Fruit oblong, 4-5 in. long, 
1 1 in. diam., truncate at the apex, narrowed gradually to the 
sessile base. Seeds smooth, globose, nearly black, \ in. diam. 
Pegu ; introduced to the Calcutta botanical garden by Mr. F. 
Carey in 1810. This has flowers like M. superba , and 
a cylindrical trunk like M. sapientum. 
12. M. discolor, Horan. Prodr. 41 ; Vieill. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1861, 46. 
Stoloniferous. Stem slender, cylindrical, 6~io ft. long. Leaves 
narrow-oblong, smaller and firmer in texture than in M. sapi- 
entum , rounded at the base, glaucous, tinged with violet or red 
beneath when young; petiole a foot or more long. Panicle 
drooping, finally as long as the leaves; bracts reddish, the 
upper only persisting ; male flowers deciduous. Fruit cylin- 
drical, angled, rather curved, umbonate at the apex, rather dry, 
reddish-violet, very palatable, with a violet pulp, with a rather 
musky scent. Wild in New Caledonia, according to Vieillard 
(native name Colabonte), and yielding textile fibre, which is 
used for fish-baskets, &c. It is widely spread in cultivation, 
and we have a drawing at Kew by Fitch of a plant that flowered 
there many years ago. 
13. M. Basjoo, Sieb. et Zucc, (name) ; Baker, in Bot. Mag. t. 7182 ; 
M.japonica, Hort. Stoloniferous. Stem cylindrical, 6-9 ft. long, 
6-8 in. diam. Leaves oblong, thin, bright green, 6-9 ft. long, 
1 \-2 ft. broad, deltoid at the base ; petiole stout, about 
a foot long. Peduncle stout, arcuate, a foot long. Panicle 
dense, 1-1J ft. long; female clusters 3-4, close, of 12-15 
flowers each; bracts oblong, dull brown, the lower 8-12 in. 
long; male clusters 8-12, their bracts much imbricated, per- 
sistent. Calyx whitish, 2 in. long, shortly 5-toothed at the tip. 
Petal ovate-acuminate, nearly as long as the calyx. Fruit 
oblong-trigonous, 3 in. long, umbonate at the apex, narrowed 
gradually to the sessile base. Liu-Kiu archipelago, and culti- 
vated in Southern Japan. Described from a plant that flowered 
