. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . Fig. 37.—musa superba, the wild plantain of the western ghats. Fig. 38.—musa superba, showing the end of the spike with the bracts enveloping the flowers. Cias as many variants as Maulmain, otherwiseMoulmein, &c. Most of us of the older genera-tion learnt to write it Sunderbunds, but B. Clarke, who dealt with the subject in apresidential address to the Linnean Society,!•discusses the derivation of the word, and explainsthat it is from Sundri, the Bengali name ofHeritiera minor (ayn. H. Fomes),
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . Fig. 37.—musa superba, the wild plantain of the western ghats. Fig. 38.—musa superba, showing the end of the spike with the bracts enveloping the flowers. Cias as many variants as Maulmain, otherwiseMoulmein, &c. Most of us of the older genera-tion learnt to write it Sunderbunds, but B. Clarke, who dealt with the subject in apresidential address to the Linnean Society,!•discusses the derivation of the word, and explainsthat it is from Sundri, the Bengali name ofHeritiera minor (ayn. H. Fomes), and bun, aforest—that is, Sundri-forest. He transliteratesit Soondreebun, which, in his opinion, more?nearly expresses the native pronunciation, andhe rejects the terminal s as a spurious andunwarrantable addition ; but Major Prainretains it. So much for the name ; now for the the south coast of England, from BeacbyHead, in Sussex, to Start Point, in Devonshire, asflat throughout as Pevensey Marsh, betweenEastbourne ard Bexhill, and extending north- * Records of
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