Tab. 4279. 
CORDYLINE Rumphii. 
Rumphius Cordyline. 
Nat. Ord. Asphodele^ (-5^-)'—Hbxandria Monogtnia. 
Gen. Char. PeriantUum campanulatum, 6-fidum, aequale, deciduum. Stamina 
6, fauci inserta. Filainenta subulata, glabra. Antherce versatiles basi bifidaa. 
Ovarivm loculis polyspermis. Stylus 1. Stigma parvum, trilobum. BMoa 
globosa, trilocularis. Semina plurima (vel abortione solitaria), umbilico stropbio- 
lato. Embryo axilis, radicula centripeta.—Caudex fruticosus. Fo^& elongaio- 
UnceoMa, nervoso-striata. Panicula terminalis, e spicis altemis multifloru. Flores 
bibracteati, bractea altera interiore. Pedicelli, dim adsunt, cum perianthw arti- 
culati. Br. 
Cordyline Rumphii-, foliis lineari-canaHculatis longe acuminatis mm-ginatis re- 
flexis, panicula terminali anipla erecta, filamentis incrassatis hinc rugosis, 
bacca tri-abortu di-monosperma. 
Sanseviera fruticosa. Bl. Enum. FI. Jav. v. 1. p. 11.” Roem. et Sch. v. 7. 
p. 361 and 1679. 
Terminalia angustifolia. Rumph. Herb. v. 5. j?. 81. t. 35. 
A greenhouse plant of graceful habit, which has long been an 
inhabitant of a cool stove in Kew Gardens, where it bears its 
copious greenish-white flowers, succeeded by the orai^e berries, 
in July; but whence introduced, is not recorded. The figi^e 
of Rumphius, above quoted, leaves no doubt of that being the 
same plant; it is consequently a native of Amboyna. Rlume s 
description and reference to Rumphius make it equally certain 
that our plant is the Sanseviera fruhcosa of that author, and 
consequently a native of the ‘mountains of Java ; but equally 
certain is it, that neither in habit, nor in essential ^aracter, can 
it be referred to Sanseviera. Its place is near Draccma and 
Cordyline. If J). Draco be the type of the former genus, I should 
be unwilling to associate this with the true Diagon s oo , 
with Cordyline it sufficiently accords in habit and m essenti 
characters, save that the seeds are, in the state of the ovules 
even, always solitary in each cell, whereas they 
rous, as shown in Draccena aiistralis (Bot. Mag. Tab. 283 )> 
referred to Cordyline. In all probability, this plant will constitute 
February 1st, 1847. ^ 
