Tab. 5662. 

 DEAC iENA surculosa ; var. maculata. 

 Long-shooting Draccena ; spotted-leaved var. 



A T at. Ord. Asparagine^:. — Hexandria Monogtpia. 

 Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5218.) 



Deacena surculosa ; fruticosa, surculos strictoa erectos squamosos e ra- 

 dice eniittens, caulibus gracilibus dichotome ramosis paucifbliatis 

 squamosis, cicatricibus squamarum delapsarum annulatis, f'oliis bre- 

 viter petiolatis oblongo-laiiceolatis acuminatis striato-nervosis, nervia 

 omnibus parallel's, squamis lanceolato-subulatis membranaceis erectis, 

 pedunculo terminali gracili erecto, bracteis minutis, floribus in co- 

 rymbum laxum globosum dispositis gracile pedicellatis, pedicello basin 

 versus articulato, periantbii tubo gracili lobis linearibus reflexis aequi- 

 longo, filamentis filil'ormibus. 



Dracjena surculosa. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1169. 



Var. maculata ; foliis fulvo-maculatis. 



This is another of the spotted-leaved Draccmas that 

 inhabit, and indeed are almost peculiar to the shores of 

 western tropical Africa, and, with the I), phryaoides (Tab. 

 nostr. 5852) and D. bicolor (Tab. 5248), dried specimens were 

 sent home by Mr. Gustav Mann, whilst collector for Kew on 

 that dangerous but prolific coast. 



D. surcxlosa was discovered by the late George Don, when 

 collector for the Horticultural Society of London in 1821, 

 at Sierra Leone, and from the plants he sent to England the 

 figure published in the ' Botanical Register ' was made ; 

 these however wanted the yellow spots so conspicuous in 

 var. maculata, and the pedicels of its flowers are rather 

 shorter; in other respects the plants are identical. It is 

 very near the D. elliptica, var. maculata (Tab. nostr. 4787), 

 but has very different flowers and inflorescence. 



I), surculosa, var. maculata, was collected by G. Mann in 

 1863 on the banks of the Old Calabar River, but the speci- 



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