. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. 766 V. BEOMELIACE^. The petioles of Bananas, an
. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. 766 V. BEOMELIACE^. The petioles of Bananas, and especially those of the Abaca {Mma textilis), are formed of very tenacious fibres, of which the natives make thread and textile fabrics; they also use the blade of the leaves to cover their huts. JRavenala madagascarienm is the finest species of the family; its popular name of Traveller's-tree is due to the reservoir formed by the leaf-sheaths, in which a limpid and fresh water collects, which may be obtained by piercing the base of the petiole [probably the rain-water which falls on the blade and is conducted by the grooved midrib to the sheathing petiole]. The inhabitants of Madagascar cook its bruised seeds with milk, and prepare a broth from them ; the pulpy aril of the seed, remarkable for its magnificent blue colour, yields an abundant volatile oil. The juice of Musa Ensete is considered in Abyssinia a strong diaphoretic [the succulent interior of the stem is eaten; not the fruit, which is small, dry, and fuU of very large seeds]. V. BROMELIACEJS. (Bromelie^, A,-L. de Jussieu,—Bromeliage^, Lindl,—Bromeli-^ et Tillandsi^, Adr, Jussieu,) Flowers 5. Perianth S-merous^ 2-seriate, the exterior calycoid, the inner petaloid. Stamens 6, epigynouSy perigynous or hypogynous. Ovary inferior or semi- inferior or superior, S-celled. Berrt indehiscent, or capsule 3-valved, Seeds alhu-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digital
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