20 CXXVII. LILIACEZ. [ Dracena. 
with a capitate obscurely 3-lobed stigma. Fruit a — indehiseent 
berry, with 9 cells and seeds, or frequently 1 or 2 only by abortion. 
Seeds thick and large, with a = smooth testa closely adhering to the 
hard albumen; embryo usually small.—Shrubs or trees, the trunk an 
branches marked by the Prim sears ng fallen leaves. Leaves at 
the ends of the branches long and n , sessile or contracted into a 
petiole, pam and stem-clasping but. sandeep sheathing at the base. 
lowers in panicles or heads, articulate on the top of the pedicels. 
Bracts "ral a mall, scarious, with a pair of smaller bracteoles when 
the flower is solitary within the bract, several when the flowers are 
clustered. 
A considerable genus, inhabiting the warmer regions of the Old World and 
including the celebrated Dragon trees of Teneriffe. The only — found in 
Australia is sirubby and widely spread over the Jic region 
. angustifolia, Roxb.; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 526.— 
Stems not much branched and east but woody, attaining 6 to 12 ft. in 
height. Leaves rather crowded under the terminal panicle, 8 in. to 
nearly 1 ft. long, i to 1 in. broad, ending in a fine point, shortly con- 
tracted at the base but not distinctly petiolate nor sheathing. Panicle 
$ to 1 ft. long, with few branches, the pedicels 2 to 3 lines long, very 
slender, usually clustered 2 or 3 together along the branches. Bracts 
and bracteoles small. Perianth narrow, white or Brecnith, about $ in. 
filaments. Fruit 4 in. diameter orrather more, pulpy inside, with 1, 2 or 
3 large seeds.—Cordyline Rumphii, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 194, but not the 
plant figured under that name in Bot. Mag. t. 4279 ; Dracena reflexa, 
F. Muell. in. vi. 120, but not the Mauritius plant to which Lamarck 
gave that n 
N. Australia. Port Essington, Armstrong ; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 857 ; Castle- 
reagh River, Gulliver. 
d. Port Macquarrie and all along the east coast northwards, 4. 
Cunningham ; Barnard and Fitzroy Islands, M*Gillivray ; Cape York, Daemel. 
11. CORDYLINE, Comm. 
Perianth deeiduous, tubular, straight, with 6 narrow lobes, usually 
longer than the tube, all equal or the 8 outer ones rather shorter. 
Stamens 6, inserted at the base of the lobes and shorter than them or 
scarcely longer; filaments filiform or flattened ; anthers narrow-oblong, 
e cells opening in longitudinal slits. Ovary sessile, short, 3-celled, 
with several (4 to 16) ovules in each cell, superposéd in 2 rows; style 
filiform, with a capitate or shortly 3-lobed stigma. Fruit nearly globular, 
3- celled, without pulp, but the „pericarp more or less succulent, often 
amps quite dry when fully ripe, indehiscent or more or less opening 
loculicidally in 3 valves. Seeds several in each cell, or solitary by abor- 
tion, variously shaped but usually eurved, the testa crustaceous, black 
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