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Musa acuminata Colla is normally understood to be an Assam species which ranges, in one of its many forms, from north-eastern India, through Indo-China, Malaya and the Archipelago, to Queensland and Polynesia1. It is therefore of interest to record its presence, on the other side of the Indian Ocean, in Pemba, Zanzibar Protectorate. Specimens were examined by Baker and Simmonds in 1948 in Zanzibar, bunches having been sent over from Pemba through the good offices of the Department of Agriculture. Five bunches were examined from three localities, namely, Funzi Island, the Ngezi forest and Wete. Plants raised from seed from all three localities have been under study at this College, and the following remarks are based upon them.
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SIMMONDS, N., SHEPHERD, K. An Asian Banana (Musa acuminata) in Pemba, Zanzibar Protectorate. Nature 169, 507–508 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/169507a0
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