‘S416. MUSA FEHI, Vieill. The famous Tahitiar banana with varnished green leaves 
and erect-standing stems and hands of fruit. The stems are full of dark-violet juice, 
from which ink may be made. An important cooking banana. 
418. MUSA KOAE. The green leaves are beautifully and irregularly marked with areas 
of white and the fruit is beautifully striped with white. Native to the Hawaiian Islands. 
This banana likes warmth, moisture, and shade. 
420. MUSA SAPIENTUM VAR. SEMINIFERUM. Our giant! This great suckering 
banana grows 30 feet in height. Its young leaves have a red-brown metallic sheen to the 
underside. The fruit is filled with large seeds. A hardy plant enduring several degrees 
below 32° F. It can be developed to noble proportions. 
422. MUSA SPP. We offer plants of the following really fine edible bananas of the 
Philippine Islands. Carinosa, Bungolan, Lacatan, Latundan and Saba. 
Detailed characteristics on request. 
424. MUSA SPP. Our ‘’blue banana.’’ The leaves are green, but the fruit is a beautiful 
powdery blue until ripe, when it becomes yellow. We found this banana, which can 
be used either as a cooking or as a fresh banana, in Hawaii. The plant is a fine novelty. 
The following three species produce many large seeds. The plants are useful for 
their hardiness and impressive size, but do not produce suckers. Small plants make 
fine tubbed specimens: 
432. MUSA ARNOLDIANA, Ed Wild. Bright, light-green leaves. Congo Free State. 
434. MUSA ENSETE, Gmel. This is the well-known Abyssinian banana with bright crim- 
son midribs. We have seen it in street parkways in Zurich used as a bedding plant 
with annuals. 
Musa Maurellii 
436. MUSA MAURELLII. The red-leaved banana. This plant is a horticultural sen- 
sation, and ours is the first introduction into North America of this magnificent species. 
The trunk, leaf stems, and under leaves are a bright, rich red. In bright light a dark 
wine-red spreads over the upper leaf surface. Indescribably beautiful and exctic in any 
location. Young plants make fine tubbed specimens. This species, native to Ethiopia, 
is virtually unknown in the New World. It is destined, however, to become an important 
anda vivid addition to the flora of many parts of the Southwest, Florida, and the 
Hawaiian Islands. 
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