Dracena. | CXL, LILIACEZ (BAKER). 449 
Style exserted.—Regel, Revis. Dracen. 45; Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soe. xiv. 537. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann, 98! and cultivated specimens! 
Introduced into cultivation at Kew about 1860. 
44. D. Elliotii, Baker. Stem short, slender, woody. Leaves 
crowded, ascending ; petiole winged, channelled, 3-4 in. long, dilated 
at the base; blade oblong, acute, of moderately firm texture, 4—5 in. 
long, 2-24 in. broad at the middle, cuneate at the base; midrib not 
visible beneath in the upper half. Inflorescence a small globose sessile 
head. Perianth 3 in. long; segments linear-oblong, half as long as 
the slender cylindrical tube. Stamens as long as the perianth- 
segments. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: in thick bush at Kukuma, Scott-Elliot, 4689 ! 
45. D. goldieana, Bull, Cat. 1871, viii. Stem short, simple, woody. 
Leaves crowded ; petiole channelled, 1-3 in. long, clasping at the base ; 
blade ovate, acuminate, 6—9 in. long, 3-5 in. broad, broadly rounded at 
the base, marbled with irregular transverse bands of bright green and 
‘silvery grey in about equal proportions ; midrib distinct beneath nearly 
to the apex. Flowers in a dense globose sessile head 2 in. diam. ; 
‘surrounded by a few reduced leaves; pedicels very short; bracts 
scariose, oblong-cuspidate, clasping the lower part of the flowers. 
Perianth white, 1 in. long; segments rather shorter than the tube. 
Stamens rather shorter than the perianth-segments. Style finally 
-exserted.— Florist, 1873, 187; Bull, Cat. 1877, 9, t. 8; Baker in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xiv. 535; Bot. Mag. t.6630; André in Lind. Ill. Hort. 1878, 
t. 300. 
Upper Guinea, Introduced about 1870, by the Rev. Hugh Goldie, of the 
United Presbyterian Missionary Society, to the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. 
a 
46. D. ovata, Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 1186; Stems short, branched. 
Leaves rosulate, oblong, 3—4 in. long, 2 in. broad at the middle ; petiole 
1-2 in. long. Flowers crowded into a short subsessile terminal sub- 
Spicate raceme; primary bracts ovate, nearly as long as the flowers ; 
pedicels very short, densely fascicled. Perianth 8-9 lin. long ; segments 
linear, as long as the tube. Stamens not exserted —Schultes f. in 
Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 345; Kunth, Enum. v. 13; Baker 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 536. Aletris pumila, J. Donn, Hort. Cant. 
edit. ii. 42. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius. 
No specimen at Kew. 
47. D. Lecomtei, Hua, Contr. Fl. Congo Franç. Lil. 15. Nearly 
allied to D. ovata, Gawl. A branched shrub 3-5 ft. high. Leaves 
oblong, 5-6 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, crowded at the tip of the branches, 
acute, narrowed to the base; petiole very short, channelled, amplexi- 
caul. Racemes very dense, panicled, 4-5 in. long; bracts large, 
ovate, amplexicaul, the lower crowded and flowerless ; flowers white, 
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