444 CXL, LILIACEZ (BAKER). [ Dracena. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Ninia, Scott-Elliot, 4815! and without precise 
locality, Afzelius! Don! Ashanti: Assin-Yan-Coomassie, Cummins, 226! Niger 
Delta: Angiama, Barter, 2095! Old Calabar River, Mann, 2327! 
Introduced into cultivation at Chiswick by G. Don in 1821. The leaf is narrower 
in proportion to its length than in D. godseffiana, and in the variegated forms the 
spots are fewer and pale green, not white, and the scariose rudimentary leaves of the 
lower part of the stem are larger and more persistent. 
24. D. godseffiana, Hort. Sander ex Baker in Gard. Chron. 1894, 
xvi. 212. Stem slender, erect, terete, green, much-branched. Leaves 
2-3-nate, subsessile, oblong, 4—5 in. long, 2 in. broad at the middle, 
dark green, usually variegated with copious small white spots; midrib 
conspicuous from the base to the apex. Raceme lax, oblong, 2-3 in. 
long ; bracts minute, lanceolate, flowers in a terminal and several lateral 
fascicles; pedicels } in. long. Perianth greenish-white, 2 in. long; 
segments linear, as long as the tube. Stamens as long as the perianth- 
segments. Style exserted. Berry globose, bright red, $—? in. diam.— 
Garden, 1896, ii. 276 (with figure); Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 7584. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos, cultivated specimen, Millen ! 
Introduced into cultivation about 1892, and distributed by Messrs. Sander of 
St. Albans. 
25. D. acaulis, Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 252. 
Acaulescent. Leaves concentrated in a radical rosette, ascending, lanceo- 
late, 1—3 ft. long, 14-2 in. broad at the middle, narrowed gradually to ` 
the tip and a long channelled petiole ` midrib conspicuous on the under 
side except towards the tip. Panicle 4—5 ft. long, with many flexuose 
racemose branches; lower branch-bracts lanceolate, 4 ft. long, and 
raceme 6-8 in. long; lower pedicels very short, 3-4 in a cluster. 
Perianth cylindrical, 14-15 lin. long ; segments rather longer than the 
tube. Stamens as long as the perianth-segments. Style exserted. 
e Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto, 1000-2400 ft., Welwitsch, 3752! 
3753 ! 
26. D. Poggei, Engl. Jahrb. xv. 478. Trunk slender. Leaves 
laxly disposed, with a slender petiole 3—4 in. long and a firm lanceolate- 
acuminate blade, 1 ft. long, 1-1} in. broad at the middle, rather rounded 
at the base; midrib visible only on the lower side in the lower half. 
Inflorescence spicate, about 3 in. long ; lower bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 
1}—2 in. long. Perianth cylindrical, 2 in. long ; tube twice as long as 
the linear segments. Filaments filiform, as long as the perianth-seg- 
ments. Berry 2—3-seeded, 2—3-lobed. 
South Central. Congo Free State: by the Lomami River, Pogge, 1434. 
Lunda: by the Lulua River, Pogge, 1456! 
27. D. humilis, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 166. Acaulescent. 
Leaves few, aggregated in a basal rosette; petiole long, slender, erect, 
dilated at the base; blade firm, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 9-12 in. long, 
2—24} in. broad, with a distinct midrib only in the lower part. Flowers 
in a short simple shortly peduncled erect spike, the lower 2-3 in a 
