smaller upwards on the panicle, at the lower branches of 
which there are two, one large, below the branch, the other 
much smaller, and above it. Flowers sessile, numerous, 
scattered, and highly perfumed. Corolla six-parted, revo- 
lute, afterwards approaching by the apices of the segments 
and withering. Filaments subulate, at length revolute : 
Anthers small, green: Pollen yellow. Germen ovate, 
green, trilocular : Style somewhat tapering upwards to the 
three-cleft stigma. Every part of the flower, except the 
germen and anther, fine. white. Granam im Jameson’s 
Journ. | . | 
Since the above was printed in the Edinburgh Journal, 
this plant has produced abundance of fruit, which Dr. 
Graunam has been so obliging as to send to me. It con- 
sists of white, fleshy, nearly orbicular berries, about the 
size of peas ; having at the base the withered corolla, and 
at the extremity the faded style. The top of the berry is 
marked with - rays or short furrows, indicating the 
three cells which exist within: and these are crowded with 
angular, shining, deep-black seeds, fixed to a receptacle in 
the central axis. At the base, or point of attachment, is a 
white ae or strophiolus. 
The plant, from which the accompanying figtire is taken, 
flowered in May, 1827, in the greenhouse of the Edinburgh 
Botanic Garden, having been raised from seeds seit by Mr. 
Fraser of New Holland ; but without any namie’ or state- 
ment of the particular ntry ‘from which it was obtained. 
Upon referring to my Herbarium, ‘I find ‘specimens of the 
same plant derived from the same source, marked “‘ Dra- 
cana australis.’ The characters of the plant are by no 
means at variance with those (short and imperfect it must 
be allowed) which we possess; and hence I have retained 
the older name. | 
In the numerous seeds contained in each cell, it departs 
from the Genus Dracena ; and, in that. particular, agrees 
with Corpyzina of Commerson and Brown, and with Cuari- 
_ woopia of Sweer, in his Flora Australasica. From the 
former again it differs in the. persistent (not deciduous) 
perianth or corolla, having equal segments, and all equally 
revolute. - 3 
fig. Dascaes australis, much diminished. 2. Leaf still oo a a very 
_ 3. Part of a Panicle in Flower, xatural size. 4. Flower and 
Bractee. 5. Portion of the Corolla with its Stamens. 6. Pistil. 7. Fruit. 
8. Vertical Section of the Berry. 9. Transverse Sdetion of ditto, 10/'Seed. 
11, Section of ditto.—More or less magnified. 
