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. _Nectarium_ monophyllum, naviculare, petalo, brevius, intra sinum petali insertum. STAMINA. Filamenta sex, subulata erecta, petalo dimidio breviora. Antheræ abortivæ. PISTILLUM. Germen infra receptaculum floris, maximum, longissimum. Stylus erectus, longitudine petali. Stigma capitatum, subrotundum. PERICARPIUM. Bacca carnosa, corio tecta, longissima, pulpa trifariam, absque dissepimentis. SEMINA plurima, globosa. _Hermaphroditi masculi flores._ CALYX ut in feminæo. COROLLA ut in feminæo. STAMINA. Filamenta ut in feminæo, at longiora, tenuiora. Antheræ lineares, sulcatæ, erectæ, magnæ. PISTILLUM. Germen ut in feminæo, ut minus. Stylus, et stigma ut in fæmineo, at minora. PERICARPIUM abortit. _Hermaphrodite flowers, where the female parts are perfect._ EMPALEMENT. Partial sheath oblong, egg-shaped, smoothly-concave, and large. BLOSSOM unequal and gaping; the petal forming the upper lip, the honey-cup the under. _Petal_ upright, ligulate, five-toothed, and meeting at the base in front. _Honey-cup_ one leaf, ship-shaped, shorter than the petal, and inclosed within it. CHIVES. Threads six, awl-shaped, upright, shorter by half than the petal. Tips abortive. POINTAL. Seed-bud below the receptacle of the flower, large and very long. Shaft upright the length of the petal. Summit headed, nearly round. SEED-VESSEL. A fleshy berry, covered with a tough skin, very long, the pulp laying three ways, without partitions. SEEDS many, round. _Hermaphrodite flowers, where the male parts are perfect._ EMPALEMENT as in the female flower. BLOSSOM as in the female flower. CHIVES. Threads as in the female flower, but longer, and thinner. Tips linear, channelled, upright, and large. POINTAL. Seed-bud the same as in the female, but smaller. Shaft and summit like the female, but smaller. SEED-VESSEL is abortive. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Musa spadice erecto; floribus capitatis; spathis confertis, coccineis, maximis, apicibus luteis. Plantain-tree with an upright fruit-stalk; flowers growing in heads; sheaths crowded together, scarlet, very large, points yellow. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.