Tas. 7078, 
DRACAINA marmorata. 
Native of Singapore. 
Nat. Ord. Lintackaz.—Tribe Dracmne. 
Genus Dracana, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 779.) 
Draczana marmorata ; fruticosa, caule elongato simplici, foliis sessilibus lan- 
ceolatis magnis confertis recurvatis plicatis albo-marmoratis, floribus in 
paniculam angustam ramis brevibus ascendentibus dense racemosis dis- 
positis, pedicellis brevibus medio articulatis, bracteis brevibus suborbicu- 
laribus, perianthii segmentis tubo cylindrico longioribus, staminibus 
segmentis zquilongis. 
This fine new tropical species of Dracwna was received 
in a living state at Kew in 1882 from the Botanic 
Garden of Singapore. It flowered with us for the first 
time in the early months of 1888. It is allied to D. 
arborea, Smithit and Cantleyi, the last a new species 
named after and discovered by the late Mr. Cantley, for 
Some time Curator of the Singapore Garden, which has 
not yet been introduced into cultivation in Europe. The 
most striking characteristic of the present plant from a 
horticultural point of view is its very large sessile plicate 
bright green leaves, copiously marbled with white. Our 
drawing was made from the plant that flowered in the 
Palm House at Kew. | 
Descr. Stem simple, elongated. Leaves crowded, sessile, 
lanceolate, recurved, plicate, bright green, copiously 
marbled with white, reaching a length of three feet and a 
breadth of nearly four inches at the middle, with a midrib 
which is very distinct towards the base but lost towards 
the tip. Panicle narrow, erect, reaching a length of one 
and a half or two feet, with many short erecto-patent 
_ densely racemose branches; pedicels a quarter or a third 
of an inch long, not more than two in a cluster; bracts 
small, suborbicular. Perianth greenish-white, under an 
inch long; tube subcylindrical ; segments twice as long as 
Octosen 1st, 1889, 
