■ Genera and Species of Museae . 2 1 3 
Var. M. Champa, Hort. Stem and midrib of the leaf red. 
Fruit pale straw-yellow, about 6 in. long, very luscious and 
delicate in flavour. 
Var. M. martabanlea, Hort. Fruit as in Champa , but 
midrib of leaf not red ; border of petiole red-brown. 
Var. M. Dacca, Horan. Prodr. 41. Stem pruinose. Leaves 
paler-geen than in the type, glaucous beneath ; border of the 
petiole red. Fruit 4 in. long by half as broad, remaining 
tightly on the branch, its tip and stalk bright green ; skin very 
thick. One of the common Indian forms. 
Var. M. rubra, Firminger, non Wallich. Stem, petiole, 
flowers and midrib of leaf dull red. Fruit about 7 in. long, at 
first dark red, ripening to yellowish red. Indian name Ram- 
Kela. 
Var. vittata, Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 5402 ; M. vittata , 
Ackerm. in Flore des Serres, t. 1510-1513. Leaves and long 
fruits copiously striped with white. Spathes bright red inside. 
Imported from the island of St. Thomas, West Africa. 
Subsp. 2. M. paradisiaca, Linn. Sp. Plant. 1477 > Trew, 
Ehret. t. 18-20; Red Lil. t. 443-4; Tussac, FI. Antill. t. 
1-2 ; Rich, in Nova Acta, XV, Suppl. t. 1 ; M. Cliffortiana , 
Linn. Mus. Cliff. I, t. 1. Male flowers and bracts less 
deciduous. Fruit cylindrical, J-i ft. long, with firmer and 
less saccharine pulp, not fit to eat without cooking. Cultivated 
universally in the tropical zone. 
Subsp. 3. M. seminifera, Lour. FI. Cochinch. 644; M. 
sapientum , Roxb. Corom. PI. t. 275 ; M. sapientum and Troglo - 
dytarum , Gaertn. Fruct. t. 1 1 ; M. balbisiana , Colla, Monogr. 
Musa, 56 (Rumph. Amboin. t. 60, fig. 3). Fruits small, 
oblong, full of seeds, not eatable, yellowish or greenish. 
These names and figures apparently represent the wild seed- 
bearing form of M. sapientum , and if so it extends in a wild 
state from Behar and the Eastern Himalayas to the Philippine 
and Malay isles. The Chittagong plant figured by Roxburgh 
grows in very soft soil and has tall lanky stems. Kurz, in 
Journ. Afric. Hort. Soc. Ind. V, 164, distinguishes two species, 
M. sapientum , with spathes often crimson inside, seeds tur- 
binate-globular to polyhedrons, tubercled, not above ^ in. diam. 
and M. sikkimensis , with dull purple spathes and seeds de- 
