Dracaena. hexandria monogynia. 159 



Found by Colonel Hardwicke at the Mauritius ; in 

 flower in July and August. 



8. D. terniflora. R. 



Shrubby, erect. Zearcslanceolar, petiolcd. 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. 



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 of a fine texture, slightly 

 marked with many, very fine, scarcely conspicuous, pa- 

 rallel veins, from six to twelve inches Jong, 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 

 as the 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. 

 Coral 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, oval, 

 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 maturity 



