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* DRACÆNA terminalis. 
The Sandwich Island Tee-Plant. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AspuoDELE®, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of 
Botany, p. 271.) 
DRACANA.—Supra, vol. 12. fol. 956. 
D. terminalis ; caule fruticoso vel arborescente, foliis petiolatis lanceolatis utrinque 
attenuatis, panicule ramis divaricatis simplicibus ramosisve floribus sub- 
sessilibus. Römer $ Schultes, Sp. Pl. 7. 343. 
D. terminalis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 157. 
Asparagus terminalis. Linn. Sp. Pl. 450. 
One of the most graceful of arborescent stove-plants, 
where there is sufficient height for it to rear its slender stem 
to the elevation of ten or twelve feet. In appearance it re- 
sembles a Palm, and although, when its structure is carefully 
examined, it is found not to be one of that princely tribe, 
yet there can be no doubt that it serves to connect the chain 
of vegetation, by bringing the Asparagus in contact with 
the Cabbage Palm. Linnzus took it for a species of Aspa- 
ragus. 
In place of again describing a plant which has repeatedly 
been already in the hands of Botanists, we shall confine 
ourselves on this occasion to an extract from the entertaining 
work of Ellis on the Sandwich Islands. 
“The Ti plant is common in all the South Sea Islands. 
It is a slow-growing plant, with a large, woody, fusiform 
* See folio 1169. 
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