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DRAC^iNA* surculo'sa 



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Long-shooting Draccena. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA 



Nat. or d. AsPAUAGEiE. 



DRACjENA L. — Suprci, vol. U.foL 956. 



D.surculosa; surculis longis teretibus annulatis subaphyllis, foliis oblongis 

 acuminatis subverticillatis, racemis terminalibus corymbosis. 

 Frutex Z-A-pedalis y surculos quotannis promenSy 2-pedaleSj teretes, dia- 

 metro \~U7icialiy apice Jbliosos^ per totam long itudinem cicatricibus squa- 

 marum deciduarum annulatos. Folia oblonga, acuminata^ breviter pedicellata, 

 scspius hie illic ternatim approximaia, inde quasi verticillata, Racemi ter- 

 minaleSf corymbosL Flores albi^ Sansevierse propius accedentes qudm 

 Dracsenae, et Jructu perfecto mox genus novum condituri. 



A very handsome, shrubby, stove, monocotyledonous 

 plant, exhibiting, in a small space, what may be termed a 

 model of the plan upon which the gigantic Palms of the 

 Tropics are formed. It rarely flowers, and has never yet 

 produced fruit: it is probable that the latter will shew 

 that it constitutes a genus distinct from Dracaena, to which 

 it is referred on account of its habit rather than of its fruc- 

 tification, which approaches that of Sanseviera. 



A native of Sierra Leone, whence it was sent to the 

 Horticultural Society by Mr. George Don, in 1821. Our 

 drawing was made in the Chiswick Garden, in July 1827. 



A shrub, growing 3 or 4 feet high, and producing yearly- 

 slender suckers, about 2 feet long, in appearance re- 

 sembling those of Asparagus, but hard, deep green, about 



Dracaena is derived from the Greek name of a dragon, hdK^f, in con- 

 sequence of some of the genus having been supposed to produce the drug 

 '* dragon's blood/' This was, however, a mistake. 



