Note 64 — THE OBSERVATIONS OF SIR RICHARD HAWKINS, KNIGHT, IN HIS VOYAGE INTO THE SOUTH SEA.

This is a most valuable production: we believe it bears, on the same area, a greater weight of food than any other vegetable. The fruit of the plantain, Musa sapientum, is chiefly eaten cooked. The banana, Musa paradisiaca, is eaten raw. There are many species, almost all excellent.