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Ordo CCLVII. ASPARAGACEAE Ktuh. «ns>. 



(ASPARAGINEAE Knth. EmiraeF. pl. omn. V. 1 — 113. & 837. — ASPARAGEAK Rndl. — 

 Wlprs. Annal. I. 870. & 1012. — LILIACEARUM Irib. 3. ASPARAGEAE Endl. Gcner. 



pl. p. 150.) 



Tribus I. DRACAENEAE Knlh. 1. c. 2. 



I. DRACIEA YandelU. 

 (Knth. Enumer. V. 2.) 



1. ' DR. DRACO Linn. — Knth. 1. c. 3. no. I. — Paxton, Magaz. of bot. XVI. p. 45. (c- 



ic. xylogr.) 



II. I>RACAEJVOPSIS Phmchon. 



(Planchon in Van Houtte, Flore des serres VI. 110. adn.) 



Perianlhium campanulatum sexpartitum marcescens, laciniis levjter bise- 

 riatis, sub anthesi revoluto-patentibus, sub fructu patenlissimis. Stamina 

 6, basi laciniarum perianlhii inserta, filamentis subulatis, antheris bilo- 

 cularibus, dorso supra basin affixis. Ovarium triloculare, loculis plurio- 

 vulatis; stylus subulatus, apice stigmatico breviter trifidus. Bacca pisi- 

 formis, perianthio persistenti imposita , vertice trisulca, trilocularis, 

 loculis polyspermis; seminibus paryis, placentis axilibus crassiusculis 

 undique affixis, pressione mutua angulatis, ad hilum strophiolatis, testa 

 nigra lucida, embnone cylindrico intra albumen copiosum leviter in- 

 curvo. — Arbor Anstralasica, habitu affinium: stipite cylindrico cicatri- 

 cibus foliorum delapsorum annulato; foliis confertis lanceolato-ensi- 

 formibus, in petiolum brevem basi dilatala amplexicaulem attenuatis, 

 costa media supra basin mox evanescenle instructis, caeterum oblique 

 penniveniis , venis subparallelis; panicula terminali ramosissima, vix e 

 corona foliorum emergente; bracteis sensim diminutis, in bracteolas 

 squamaeformes pedicellos brevissimos cingentes abeuntibus; floribus 

 parvis albis, suave fragrantibus. 



1. "DR. AUSTRALIS Planchon 1. c. — Dracaena oblecta Grah. Edinb. Journ. 1827. p. 175. 

 — Dracaena australis Hook. Bot. Mag. tab. 2835. — Cordyline uustratis Endl. — Knth. 

 Enumer. V. 29. no. 5. — Habitat in JNova Zeelandia. 



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