musaceæ

pl. [Mod. Lat. mus(a); Latin fem. pl. adj. suff.- aceæ.] Bot.: Musads; an order of Endogens, alliance Amomales. It consists of stemle , or nearly stemle , plants, with the leaves so sheathing at the base as to constitute a spurious stem; veins of the leaves parallel, and running regularly from the midrib to the margin, often splitting into fringe like divisions. Flowers spathaceous, perianth irregular, six-parted petaloid in two rows; ovary inferior, three-celled, many-seeded, rarely three-celled. Fruit capsular or indehiscent. Palm-like plants, natives of the Cape of Good Hope and other parts of the tropics. Genera four, species twenty.