Tas, 6253. 
DRACAENA FRUTICosA. 
Native country unknown. 
Nat. Ord. Lintacka.—Suborder AsPARAGACER. 
Genus Dracana, Vand. (Baker, in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xiv. p. 523). 
Draczya fruticosa ; 10-15-pedalis, foliis sessilibus secus ramos elongatos laxe 
dispositis lanceolatis acutis pedalibus vel sesquepedalibus, medio 12-15 
lin., supra basin 6-9 lin. latis viridibus membranaceo-coriaceis, superioribus 
ascendentibus, inferioribus patulis, costa preter apicem perspicua, marginibus 
concoloribus, paniculis amplis deltoideis, racemis modice densis, bracteis 
minutis albidis lanceolatis, pedicellis brevibus apice articulatis infimis 3-4- 
nis, perianthii albi subpollicaris segmentis tubum superantibus, staminibus 
perianthio vix brevioribus, stigmate demum exserto. 
D. fruticosa, A. Koch, Wochenschrift, 1867, p. 236; Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soe. vol. xiv. p. 532. 
D. ensifolia, Regel, Gartenflora, 1864, p. 321; tab. 451, 1871, p. 138, non Wallich. 
This fine species is now widely spread in cultivation, but 
its native country has never been satisfactorily ascertained. 
It does not exist amongst the extensive set of wild specimens 
from various parts of tropical Africa, and preserved in the 
Kew herbarium. It was supposed by Dr. Regel to be 
identical with Wallich’s D. ensifolia, but that is clearly the same 
as Roxburgh’s D. angustifolia, as I have ascertained from the 
examination of Wallich’s original specimens, distributed as 
No. 5143 of his great Indian herbarium. The present plant 
has the general habit and lax leaves of the Mauritian and 
tropical African D. refleva, Lam., but is more robust, with 
larger leaves and flowers, and a longer perianth tube. The 
plate was drawn from a plant that flowered in the Palm 
House at Kew in April, 1862. 
Descr. Stems ten or fifteen feet high, erect, simple or 
branched. Leaves laxly disposed over aspace of several feet, the 
upper ascending, the lower spreading, clasping half way round 
the branch at the base, lanceolate, a foot or even a foot-and-a- 
half long, an inch or an inch and a quarter broad at the 
middle, narrowed gradually to an acute point, and to half an 
inch broad above the base, moderately firm in texture, bright 
