PLATE XLVII.
MUSA COCCINEA.
Scarlet-flowered Plantain-tree.
CLASS XXIII. ORDER I.
POLYGAMIA MONOECIA. Various dispositions. Upon one Plant.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Hermaphroditi feminei flores.
Calyx. Spatha partialis ovato-oblonga, plano-concava, magna.
Corolla inæqualis, ringens; petalo constituente labium superins, nectario vero labium inferius.
Petalum erectum, ligulatum, quinquedentatum, basi antice connivens.