NEW SPECIES OF PHANEROGAMOUS PLANTS. 59 



Perianth of six conuivent segments, the three outer broadly ovate-obtuse, 

 concave, ciliolate at the margins, the three inner oblong, hooded ; fertile 

 stamens three, opposite the outer segments of the perianth, and attached 

 to their very base. Filaments very short. Authers yellow, roundish, 

 didymous, 2-celled, introrse, dehiscing longitudinally. Staminodes 3, op- 

 posite to and half the length of the iuner segments of the perianth, peta- 

 loid, purplish, spoon-shaped. Rudiment of the style short, columnar, 

 minutely 3-lobed at the apex. Female flower unknown. It is probable 

 that a specimen (without number), gathered by Gerard at Natal, and also 

 preserved at Kew, is the female of this plant. In the latter the leaf-lobes 

 are narrower, more tapering, and much more tomentose than in Messrs. 

 Veilch's plant ; the flower-spikes are axillai-y, tomentose ; the ovaries are 

 also clothed with a dense coat of down, and are shorter than the subtend- 

 ing bracts; the segments of the perianth are oblong-obtuse. — Gard. 

 Chron. 1870, p. 1U9, and fig. 217. 



DiPLACHNE SINENSIS, iZ««ce (Graminea) . — VideJourn. 5o^.Vol.VIII. 

 p. 76. 



DoLicHANDKONE Lawii, Seem. (Bignoniacece) . — Vide Journ. Bot. 

 Vol. VIII. p. 380. 



DRACiENA CYLINDRICA, HooTc. f. (^LUiacecE, Asparagine(s) ; caule 

 erecto indiviso folioso, foliis sursum gradatira majoribus patenti-recurvis 

 e petiolo lato obovato-lanceolatis abrupte acuminatis, nervis obscuris, 

 spica sessili terminali amentiformi densa cylindrica obtusa, bracteis ovato- 

 lanceolatis acuminatis tubum angustum perianthii sequantibus, pedicello 

 brevi apice tuniido, perianthii laciniis anguste linearibus albis recurvis 

 filamento medio paulo incrassato aequantibus, antheris parvis flavis, stylo 

 gracillimo, stigmate obscure 3-lobo. — Hab. Old Calabar, Hort. Kew., 

 from Gr. ]\Iann and Rev. W. C. Thomson, being near D. bicolor,Bot. 

 Mag. t. 5248.— 5o/. Mag. t. 5846. 



Dracontium elatum. Masters {Aroidece) ; cormo oblate-sphseroideo, 

 fibras radicales carnosas superne tautum emittente ; foliis radicalibus 

 synanthiis, solitariis vel binis, petiolatis, pedatisectis (diametro 3-4-peda- 

 libus), segmentis primariis 3 vel 5, obovatis imparl, interrupte, decur- 

 siveque pinnatipartitis, lateralibus interdum apice dichotome divisis, 

 segmentis ultimis oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis glabris-costatis, arcuato- 

 nervosis ; petiolis 5-6-pedalibus et ultra, teretibus, apicem versus sensim 

 attenuatis, pone basin tuberculatis maculisque violaceis annulosis undulatis 

 notatis ; scapo tereti 5-6-pollicari ; spatha 8-9-pollicari coriacea, pur- 

 purea, fornicata, convergenti-nervosa, longiuscule acuminata acumine in- 

 fiexo ; spadice cylindraceo bipoUicari breviter stipitato, ab apice deorsura 

 florente ; tloribus numerosissimis ebracteatis monochlamydeis, hermaphro- 

 ditis, arete approximatis ; perianthio 6-7-9-partito ; segmentis spathu- 

 latis apice cucuUatis festivatione imbricatis ; staminibus perianthii seg- 

 mentis numero cequalibus iisque oppositis demum exsertis, tilamentis 

 latis ; antheris dorsitixis, bilocularibus, loculis oblongis, apicem versus 

 rima porosa extrorse vel lateraliter dehiscentibus ; ovario supero, sub- 

 3-lobo, 3-loculare ; stylo crasso subconoideo ; stigmate tri-radiato ; ovulis 

 in quovis loculo solitariis, placentae axili, mediante funiculo brevissimo, 

 affixis, campylitropis ; fructu adhuc ignoto. — Hab. In Africa occidentali ; 

 e Sierra Leone elata, v. v. in Hort. Bull. The Jroid, of which a technical 

 description is above given, will not vie in size with the Godwinia gigas of 

 Seemann {■Journ. Bot. Vol. VII. p. 313, t. 96 and 97), but it is very much 



