Dracena. | CXL. LILIACEZ (BAKER). 447 
florescence a subsessile panicle 1 ft. long, with a flexuose rhachis and 
several short spreading simple branches; flowers in dense clusters at 
the tip and side of the branches; pedicels very short ; bracts minute. 
Perianth 4 in. long; segments 4 the length of the very slender tube. 
Anthers shorter than the filiform filaments.—Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xiv. 536. 
Lower Guinea, Corisco Bay: Eloby Island, Mann, 1630! 
36. D. Buttneri, Engl. Jahrb. xv.479. Leaves moderately dense ; 
petiole slender, 6-8 in. long ; blade oblong, acute or acuminate, 4—6 in. 
long, cuneate at the base. Inflorescence 8 in. long ; secondary branches 
short, distant; flowers clustered; pedicels short; bracts lanceolate, 
scariose. Perianth not seen. Berry globose, 1-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Büttner, 537. 
No specimen at Kew. 
37. D. densifolia, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 165. Stem 
slender, woody. Leaves laxly disposed, ascending; petiole channelled, 
4-8 in. long; blade oblong, narrowed to a deltoid cuspidate apex, 
4-6 in. long, 2-3 in. broad at the middle, rounded at the base to the 
winged apex of the petiole, firm in texture, glossy; midrib visible 
beneath only in the upper half. Inflorescence shortly peduncled; 
flowers in few dense clusters at the end and side of the rhachis; 
pedicels 4-1 in. long; bracts minute. Perianth 1 in. long ; segments 
shorter than the very slender cylindrical tube.—J. densiflora, Baker in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 535. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon River, Mann, 1037 ! 
38. D. monostachya, Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 252. 
Acaulescent. Leaves all in a radical rosette, ascending ; petiole slender, 
above 1 ft. long; blade lanceolate, 1 ft. long, 14-2 in. broad at the 
middle, narrowed gradually to the apex, rounded at the base; midrib 
not visible in the upper half. Inflorescence a dense simple oblong 
raceme 2-3 in. long; peduncle 1 ft. long, with many empty bracts ; 
pedicels very short, fascicled; bracts minute. Perianth not seen. 
Berry 2~3-seeded, deeply lobed. 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island, Welwitsch, 3744! 
Var, angolensis, Baker, Leaves oblong, 6-8 in. long, 2-25 in. broad, rounded 
at the base. Peduncle shorter. Raceme not so dense. 
Lower Guinea, Angola: Golungo Alto, Welwitsch ! 
39. D. phrynioides, Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 5352. Subacaulescent. 
Leaves in E e Ae rosette; petiole slender, erect, 4-1 ft. long; blade 
ovate or oblong, acuminate, 6-9 in. long, 2~4 in. broad, rounded at eg 
base, moderately firm, sometimes spotted with white ; ape eon eg 
in the upper half. Inflorescence a shortly peduncled glo e re 
1} in. diam., surrounded by many ovate acute bracts as E e eg 
flowers. Perianth 3 in. long; segments oblong, $ the length of the 
