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DIOSCOREACE^. 

 Dioscorea sp. 



Timor Laut.— The genus Dioscorea is a large one, numbering nearly 150 species, 

 generally diffused in tropical and subtropical countries, and a few occurring in temperate 

 regions. Several species are widely cultivated. 



LILIACEjE. 

 Dracasna angustifolia, Eoxb. 



Dracama angustifolia, Roxb. ; Benth., Fl. Austr., vii. p. 20; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., xiv. 



p. 526. 

 Cordyline rumpliii, Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., iii. p. 556, part im. 



Timor Laut. — A miniature tree, ranging from tbe Himalayas to North-eastern 

 Australia. This is the only true Draccena that reaches Australia. There are about 

 thirty-five species of Draccena spread over the warmer parts of the Old "World ; tbe 

 Brazilian species is now referred to Cord) /line. 



Cordyline terminalis, Kunth. 



Cordyline terminalis, Kunth; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., xiv. p. 539; Benth., Fl. Austr., vii. 



p. 21 ; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 311 ; Mann in Proc. Amer. Acad., vii. p. 2<)7. 

 Calodracon terminalis, Planch. ; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., iii. p. 558. 

 Cordyline sepiaria, Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 311, t. 94. 

 Cordyline austral it, Nadeaud, Enum. PI. Tahiti, et Jouan in Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, xi., 1SG5, 



p. 127, non Endl. 



Arrou ; Timor Laut. — Generally spread over Tropical Asia and Polynesia, and North- 

 eastern Australia. There are several varieties cultivated in Polynesia, and Seemann states 

 that it is not wild in the Fijis. Mann also indicates it as one of those plants introduced 

 into the Sandwich Islands by the aborigines. Both Jouan and Nadeaud confound it with 

 the very distinct New Zealand Cordyline australis, which bears in common with it the 

 native name "Ti." It appears to exist in almost all of the Pacific Islands, where all parts 

 of the plant are employed in some way. There are about nine species, ranging from India 

 to Australia and New Zealand, where there are four species, and a tenth in Brazil. 



Dianella ensifolia, Redoute \ 



Dianella ensifolia, Redoute, Lib, t. 1? Benth., Fl. Anstr., vii. p. 1G; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat, iii. p. 560; 

 Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 312; Nadeaud, Enum. PI. Tahiti, p. 34. 



Arrou. — There is a little doubt about our plant being the true Dianella ensifolia, 

 which is widely spread in Tropical Asia, in the Mascarene and Pacific Islands; also 

 occurring in North-eastern Australia. Dianella odorata inhabits the Sandwich Islands, 

 another is found in New Caledonia, a third in New Zealand and Norfolk Island. Finally 

 there are five species in Australia, and four of these are endemic. 



(bot. chall. exp. — rAKT iii. — 1885.) C 2G 



