Tas. 5248. 
DRAC/AENA sBicoLor. 
Broad-leaved Two-coloured Dracena. 
Nat. Ord. ASPARAGINE#.—HEXANDRIA MoNoGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Perigonium corollaceum, tubulosum, profunde sex-fidum ; Jaciniis 
subspathulato-linearibus, obtusis, uninerviis, equalibus, patentissimis vel recur- 
vatis. Stamina 6, fauci perigonii inserta, exserta, erecto-patula. Filamenta 
plana, angusto-linearia, apice subulato-attenuata. -Anthere biloculares, oblong 
vel lineari-oblongz, apice bilobe, basi bifid, dorso medio affixee, introrse. 
Ovarium \iberum, sessile, oblongum, triloculare ; ovala in loculis solitaria, ses- 
silia, adscendentia, anatropa. Columna stylina filiformis, sulcato-triangularis, 
erecta, stamina superans. Stigma trilobum, lobis rotundatis. Bacca subglobosa 
vel tripulvinato-globosa, carnoso-succulenta, 1—-3-sperma. Semina subglobosa. 
Lmbryo in basi albuminis cornei ad latus exterius locatus.—Caules arborei vel 
Sruticosi, simplices vel ramosi, foliis delapsis semiannulato-cicatrizati. Folia in 
apice caulis et ramorum conferta, lanceolata vel linearia, integerrima, sepe inferne 
angustato-petiolata, ima basi semiamplexicaulia, striato-nervosa, pergamena vel 
subcoriacea, glabra. Panicule ¢erminales, solitarie, simplices vel ramose, brac- 
. teate, rarissime ad racemum solitarium redacte. » Flores pedicellati, solitarii, 
gemini, terni vel quini, in ramis panicule racemosim dispositi, albidi, virescenti- — 
vel flavido-albi ; pedicellis basi bractevlatis, superne articulatis. Kth. 
Dracana bicolor ; suffrutex humilis simplex, foliis ovatis subcoriaceis costatis 
vix striatis undulatis brevi-acuminatis apice mucronato-setaceis inferne in 
petiolum latum canaliculatum basi amplexicaule attenuatum, racemo capi- 
tato-spicato multifloro bracteato, pedicellis brevissimis, bracteolis lanceo- 
latis intense purpureis longitudine corollz tubi, limbi laciniis linearibus 
patentibus albis purpureo-marginatis, staminibus longe exsertis. 
A native of Fernando Po, whence living plants were sent to 
us by Mr. Gustav Mann, in 1860: they flowered in February 
of the following year. Its nearest ally is doubtless the Dracena 
ovata of Gawler, in Bot. Magazine, Tab. 1179; but that differs 
in the strongly marked parallel nerves of the leaves and the 
much shorter fascicle of flowers of a pale-rose colour, and other 
characters. It requires the heat of a stove, and flowered with 
us in February, 1861. 
Dzscr. A foot high, erect. Stem as thick as the little finger, 
leafy, principally above. Leaves five to six inches long, inclu- 
ding the rather short, broad, channelled pefiole, ovate, waved, en- 
tire at the margin, rather suddenly acuminate, with a soft mucro 
may Isr, 1861. 
