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Chaw, a plantain, called in Malay Pisang, the Musa of Botany. The mountaineer distinguish the 43 following varieties, of Chaw.

1. Ambon, stem tall and dark coloured, fruit large and green even when ripe. One of the most common varieties.
2. Badak, thick short tree, name means the Rhinoceros.
3. Banténg, or wild bull which is black. Fruit short and thick; has a darkish skin, and is good for Kuéh or cooking.
4. Buhaya, or the Alligator, has very long Jantung, reaching almost to the ground, being ripe at top and unripe below.
5. Běulěum, or the roasting plaintain, must be either toasted or else steamed, di seupan before it is fit for use.
6. Běusi or Iron, tree short and thick, spotted dark; fruit large and green.
7. Burut, the hydrocele Plantain.
8. Churuk, the forefinger.
9. Gading, the Ivory.
10. Gěmbor, a common variety.
11. Hanggasah, name of a Scitameneous plant.
12. Hihid, name of a cooking fauner.
13. Hoih, a Ratan.
14. Honjé, name of a Scitameneous plant.
15. Hurang, the shrimp.
16. Karok, one of the most common wild sorts, stem reddish.
17. Kapas, or cotton, common, must be steamed.
18. Kollé, the most common of the wild sorts of plantain; stem slender, and leaves smaller than those of cultivated sorts. The leaves are often striped or blotched with brown or green which gives them a very distinguished and pretty appearance in the wilderness. Its fruit is called Keu-eus, and is full of seeds. It hardly has any pulp.
19. Kollé monyét, the monkey kollé, is a variety of No.18.
20. Kapokan, fruit small and short, must be steamed.
21. Kosta, properly from the coast of Coromandel.
22. Lémpénéng, of yellowish skin, long and thin.
23. Lubang, the eel; a very rare variety; the fruit is said to ripen in the stem before it is protruded, hence called the eel- from being in a hole.
24. Lumut, the pulpy.
25. Lutung, the black monkey.
26. Manggala, Batu, Siki, Raja Gěnděng, or Kulutuk five names for same sort; common but not eatable.
27. Mas or Golden; this is the most common of all the plantains. The fruit is small and sweet.