Gonioscypha.] CLVI. LILIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 327 
The HIMALAYA and KnasiA HILLS; possibly indigenous; cultivated throughout 
Inpia.—Disters. S. Europe, the Caucasus and N. Asia to Japan. 
leaves 12-24 by 1-14 in., erecto-patent, acute, subglaucous beneath. Scape 
2-3 ft, panicle 6-12-fld.; pedicels short; bracts small, membranous. Flowers 
nodorous, 1-2 in. diam.; tube yellow-red; outer segments orange yellow, oblong, 
acute, inner very much broader. 12-18 by Hi VEN 
Var. angustifolia, Baker l. c. ; much smaller, leaves 12- y à-3 in., peri - 
segments eraot more acute. Boiss. l. c. H. longituba, Miquel Ann. Mus. 
Lugd. Bat. iii. 152. 
1l. DRACZENA, Linn. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate or crowded and subterminal, 
sessile or petioled, costate or not and many-nerved. Flowers in terminal 
Tacemes panicles or heads; bracts small. Perianth tubular, campanula e 
or funnel-shaped, 6-cleft, lobes narrow. Stamens 6, inserted at the base o 
the tube, filaments filiform or flattened; anthers versatile. Ovary - 
celled ; style filiform, stigma capitate; ovules 1, erect in each cell. ` SEN 
globose didymous or 3-lobed. Seeds globose or angled, testa thic ist , 
Ligen horny; embryo small.— Species about 35, in warm regions of the 
d World, 
i ee a e s ttempt 
This genus wants a thorough revision on living plants. The following a ) 
to delimit the Indian species ‘has been a work of much labour and the result is 
Provisional only. 
* Leaves linear or ensiform, sessile. 
ii 8-20 
La angustifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 155; stem erect, leaves 
M El in, costate waved, panicle very large decurved spreading, fomes 
m., pedicels 3-1 in., fruit i-i in. diam. fleshy. Wal » at. 51; 
Kunth Enum. v. 4; Regel Revis. Drac. 36; Baker in Trim. Journ. ot. 
1873, 26 ; în Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 526; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 5 , D: 
ensifolia, Wall, Cat. 5143; Kunth Enum. 5; Kurz l. c. Terminalis 
(Seid, Rumph. Amb. iv. t. 35. Sanseviera fruticosa, Blume Enum. 
LI. 
: "ar, Wallich, &c. Enäsna and Naca HILLS, common, BURMA, ANDA 
AN Iert ANps rz.— . Malaya, Australia. ` . - 
Stem 8-10 SI ad we stout Cane, simple or forked. Leaves sessite by a 
broad sheathing base spreading and recurved. Flowers white or tipped M m . 
"Wt orange-cold. Kurz distinguishes his ensifolia by the ee ‘ran E 
nger than the leaves bracts acute almost wholly scarious, filaments Iess 
icels 3 in; and angustifolia by the erect stiff panicle shorter than the leaves, 
bracts with a Scarious border, filaments white. 
1—1 in. 
2D. £raminifolia, Wall. Cat. 5149; leaves 8-12 M smooth ; 
obscurely Costate, raceme erect simple or branched at the base D E 
„Overs $ in, long. D. Finlaysoni, Baker in Trim. Journ. Bot. 1875, , 
ourn, Linn, Soc. xiv. 525. Borneo ? 
TRAITS of Maracca, Dinding Island, Finlayson.— DISTRIB. d th Bornean 
allich's specimens are very insufficient, and I hesitate to regar , e Á 
Plant, from which Baker’s description is in part taken, as specifically the same. 
`. D. eranul k. f.: arboreous, leaves 6-10 by } in. sessile, 
fn viele erect pyramidal wl and branches finely granulate when dry, 
ut 1-12 in. diam. shortly pedicelled fleshy. 
onAY PENINSULA ; Perak, King’s Collector. 
ft. by 18-20 in. diam. 
