Tas. 6630. 
DRACAINA GoLDIEANA. 
Native of West Tropical Africa. 
Nat. Ord. Litrackm.—Sub-order ASPARAGACER. 
Genus Dracmuna, Vandelli; (Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 523.) 
Dracmna Goldieana; fruticosa, caule erecto simplici, petiolo brevi ascendente 
deorsum dilatato caulem amplectente, foliis contiguis patulis cordato-ovatis 
cuspidatis fasciis transversalibus viridibus et albidis pulchris copiosis decoratis, 
floribus in glomerulos globosos sessiles terminales aggregatis, pedicellis brevis- 
simis, bracteis magnis latis scariosis, perianthii albi pollicaris tubo cylindrico, 
segmentis lanceolatis tubo paulo brevioribus, staminibus inclusis antheris 
oblongis albidis versatilibus, stylo demum exserto apice stigmatoso obscure 
trilobato. 
D. Goldieana, Hort. Bull.; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe, vol. xiv. p. 535; André 
in Linden Ill. Hort. New Ser. t. 300. 
This is one of the most valuable additions that has been 
made for a long time to our stock of plants with beautiful 
foliage suitable for stove cultivation. It was introduced 
about 1870 from West Tropical Africa by the Rev. Hugh 
Goldie, of the United Presbyterian Missionary Society, who 
sent it to the Botanic Garden at Edinburgh. Here it 
attracted the notice of Mr. William Bull, through whose 
energy it has been largely propagated and widely dispersed. 
A very large number of plants to which specific names 
under the genus Dracena have been given in gardens during 
the last twenty years are in reality not Dracznas at all, 
but races or varieties of Cordyline terminalis. The present 
plant is a true Dracewna, and is a well-marked new species 
of the same group as D. elliptica (Bot. Mag. Tab. 4787), 
differing from all its neighbours by its sessile capitate 
inflorescence. It received a certificate from the Royal 
Horticultural Society in 1873, but has only been known 
to flower quite recently. Our drawing was made from a 
plant that flowered in the Royal Gardens at Kew in March, 
1882. 
JUNE lst, 1882, 
