Dracena. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 159 
Found by Colonel Hardwicke at the Mauritius; in 
flower in July and August. 
8. D. terniflora. R. 
Shrubby, erect. Leaves lanceolar, petioled. Raceme 
terminal, often panicled ; flowers tern, pedicelled. 
Bunamtol, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is 
indigenous amongst the hills which bound that province 
to the north ; there it grows to the height of about eight 
feet, flowering in February. The seeds take nearly one 
year to ripen, aids 
Stems slender, nearly erect. Branches few and weak. 
Leaves about the extremities of the branches, alternate, 
approximate, petioled, lanceolar, acuminate, perfectly 
smooth on both sides, and ofa fine texture, slightly 
marked with many, very fine, scarcely conspicuous, pa- 
_ rallel veins, from six to twelve inches long, and, the petiole 
included, two or three broad. Petioles from one to 
three inches long, stem-clasping, &c. as in the genus. 
Racemes terminal, solitary, rising, curved, often more 
or less compound, sometimes panicled, nearly as long 
asthe leaves, every part smooth. Flowers always 
in threes, pedicelled, delicately slender, colour pale green- 
ish-white. Pedicels slender, jointed near the middle, the 
part below the joint more permanent, and longer than 
the bractes. | Bractes an exterior, three-flowered, ovate 
one, and a smaller within it, to each pedicel ; all de- 
licately thin, membranaceous and white. Calyx none, 
_ Corol funnel-shaped ; segments of the border six, linear, 
longer than the tube, withering, and becoming spiral. 
Filaments six, from the mouth of the tube, length of the 
Segments. Anthers incumbent. Germ superior, oyal, 
three-lobed, three-celled, with one ovula in each, at- 
tached to the lower end of the axis. Style longer than 
the corol. Stigma three-lobed. Berries rarely more than 
One of the three lobes of the germ comes to matt urity : 
Pee 
