"Ravenala" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 367. RAVENALA MADAGASCARIENSIS.—This plant is called the Traveler's tree, probably on account of the water which is stored up in the large cup-like sheaths of the leaf-stalks, and which is sought for by travelers to allay their thirst. The broad leaves are used in ...
— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders
... this might possibly have been some vegetable production, such as a great frond of the Ravenala (Urania speciosa) cooked to pass as a ruc's quill. (Marco Polo, first edition, ii. 354; second edition, ii. 414.) Mr. Sibree, in his excellent book on Madagascar (The Great African Island, ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa |
