Tas. 6327. 
DRACZAENA REFLEXA, 
Native of Mauritius. 
Nat. Ord. Littackm.—Tribe Dracmnex. 
Genus Draczna, Vand. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 523). 
Dracana reflexa ; frutex 6-20-pedalis, foliis lanceolatis acutis patulis laxe dis- 
positis 6-9 poll. longis, 6-12 lin. latis, costa preter apicem perspicua, paniculis 
deltoideis erectis breviter pedunculatis ramis patulis densifloris, pedicellis 
solitariis apice articulatis, bracteis superioribus deltoideis, inferioribus 
lanceolatis, perianthii albidi tubo campanulato, segmentis ligulatis tubo 5-6- 
plo longioribus, staminibus segmentis equilongis, stylo demum exserto. 
D. reflexa, Lamk. Encyclop., vol. iii. p. 324; Red. Lil. vol. ii. t. 92; Kunth, Enum. 
vol. v. p. 6; Regel, Revis. Drac. p. 40; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xiv. 
p. 530. 
D. cernua, Jucg.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 158. 
This is the typical form of the Bos de Chandelle of 
Mauritius. The plant is spread widely through Tropical 
Africa and runs into numerous varieties. It has long been 
known in cultivation, but the only figure which has been 
given is the old one above cited. It may be known from the 
other cultivated Draceenas with lanceolate sessile leaves by 
the looser disposition of its leaves upon the stem and by its 
solitary flowers, with a very short perianth-tube. D. cernua 
of Jacquin is a variety of the same plant, with a drooping 
panicle, longer pedicels and leaves edged with red. Our 
present drawing was made from a specimen that flowered 
some time ago in the Palm-house at Kew. 
Descr. An erect shrub, with slender branches, reaching a 
height of from six to twenty feet. Leaves laxly placed over 
the top half foot of each of the branches, lanceolate, acute, 
six to nine inches long, three-quarters of an inch to an inch 
broad at the middle, narrowed to a quarter of an inch above 
the deltoidly dilated clasping base, bright green, with the 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1877. 
