Cordyline. | CXXVII. LILIACEA. $ 21 
and shining; albumen waxy ; peep A curved and sometimes nearly as 
long as the albumen.—Shrubs or trees, the branches marked by the 
annular sears of the fallen tee? es crowded under the paniele or 
Dracena, solitary or clustered along the branches, sessile or r pelicllto 
each within a small braet with 2 small braeteoles at their 
The E is widely spread over the warmer regions of the Old vt Mas one 
American species. Of the three Australian species, one is common over a grea 
of the Indo-Australian region, the two others are endemi 
Perianth-segments of equal length. 
Leaves : lus 1} ft. long, 1 to 3 in. broad, with a short 
pe . . 1. C. terminalis. 
yu 3 S 6 in. long, 14 to 2) in. broad, ‘with a rather 
petiole . . . . 2 C. Haageana. 
“= : porianth- segments longer than the outer. Leaves 1 : 
2 ft. long, 4 to 1 in. broad or even narrow i uis © SC) etree. 
I. C. terminalis, Kunth ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 589.—8tems 
attaining 8 to 6 ft. Leaves crowded under the panicle, from 1 to 14 ft. 
long or the upper ones half that length, varying from 1 to 3 in. broad, 
acuminate at the end and tapering at the base into a sheathing petiole. 
reat often 1 ft. long, with spreading solitary or clustered branches of 
in. Flowers scattered along the branches either singly or in 
diis of 2 or 8, varying from almost sessile to borne on pedicels attain- 
ing sometimes 4 or 5 lines. Perianth usually about 4 lines but some- 
times attaining 5 lines in length, white reddish or almost purple, divides 
se of the segment ; anthers not much shorter than the filaments id 
not exceeding the perianth. Ovules 4 to 10 in each cell of the ovary. 
Fruit nearly globular, 8 to 4 lines diameter in the dried specimens, more 
or less succulent before it is "vu but usually becoming dry or nearly : 
when the seeds are fully ripe.—Dracena terminalis, Jacq. Ie. Rar 
448 ; Red. Lil. t. 91; Bot. Reg. t. 1749; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. e 
D. ferrea, xt ; Bot. Mag. t. 2053 ; Cordyline cannafolia, R. Br. 
Po 280; F. Muell. Fragm. v. 196.; C. sepiaria, Seem. Fl. Vit. 811, 
Sone piotiwsler Bay, R. Brown ; Ipswich, Nernst ; Pine River, Fitzalan ; 
» Dal 
N. S. W: Wales. cim Un River, Beckler ; Richmond River, Henderson, Faweett. 
The species is ou spread over tropical Asia and Polynesia. In the ordinary 
above t ino do long, ind fre wed the flowers are but y leaves are 
C 10 pns as lag as broad. m this the var. hedychioides or 
 hedyehnten E Mue 96, from Cape York, a 
r in the leaves ndi in BP i to their length. The fruit in our speci- 
mens may be a trifle larger, but if epum at the same degree of maturity does not 
i rm. 
Var. Manners-Suttonie or. C. amana ogg ee F. Muell Fragm. v. 195, from 
Mount Elliott, Fitzalan, and Rockhampton, Dallachy, Bowman, is remarkable for the 
