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Dracena. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 155 
smooth, red, pulpy, generally one-seeded, though there 
is always the rudiments. of three. e 
DRACZENA. Shreb. gen. n. 574. 
Calyx none. Corol six-parted, erect. Filaments some- 
what thicker in the middle. Germ superior, three-celled, 
cells one-seeded ; attachment interior. Berry three-lobed, 
with one seed in each (generally one or two of the lobes 
abortive.) Embryo near the base of the perisperm en the 
outside. 
1. D. angustifolia. R. 
Shrubby. Leaves stem-clasping, linear, acute, droop- 
ing, waved, smooth. Panicle terminal, flowers fasci- 
cled. en ; 
Terminalis angustifolia. Rumph. Amb. 4. ¢,35 
A native of Amboyna, and from thence introduced in- — 
to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta in 1798, Flowering 
time in Bengal, the hot season; seed ripe in September 
and October. 
Root ramous. Stem erect, as thick as a stout walking 
cane ; ramous, marked with the oblique cicatrices of the 
- fallen leaves ; whole height, when in blossom, eight or 
ten feet. Leaves crowded about the top of the plant, 
stem-clasping, linear, acute, drooping ; margins waved, 
entire, smooth on both sides; from Secs to eighteen _ 
inches long, and under two in breadth. Panicles termi- 
nal” ovate, composed of many somewhat ascending, 
compound branches. Flowers numerous, fascicled, pe- 
dicelled, greenish white. Bractes small, from one to four- 
flowered. Calyx none. Corol one-petalled, permanent, 
~ Subcylindric, half six-parted, divisions linear, on the day 
of expansion revolute, Filaments six, rather shorter than. 
the corol, inserted on the middle of the base of its s divi- 
—Sions. Anthers incumbent. Germ superior, | three. 
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