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tube hemispheric violet, lobes oblong recurved darker. Anthers G ses- 

 sile, elliptic. Style cylindric white spotted with violet. Stigma club- 

 shaped rounded obscurely three-lobed. 



Perak : Bujong Malacca (Curtis), fl. in. H. B. Penang in 1901 ; 

 Penang : Highlands (Curtis). Endemic. 



Excluded Species. 



Tupistra singapureana, Wall. Cat. 5195. Bak. Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 XIV. 581, Hooker Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 325, is Neuwiedia Curtisii Rolfe. 

 In fruit. 



§ 5. ASPARAGEAE. 



7. Asparagus, L. 



Shrubby plants with a stout rhizome. Stems erect or straggling 

 or climbing. Leaves reduced to minute scales, often spiny, with tufts 

 of flattened or acicular branches (cladodes) in the axils. Flowers very 

 small, axillary, fascicled, solitary racemose pendulous on jointed pedi- 

 cels. Perianth campanulate 6 lobed. Stamens from the bases of the 

 segments. Ovary 3 celled, 3 angled, ovules 2 or more in each cell. 

 Style 1, stigmas 3. Berry globose. Seeds 2 to 6, black, testa brittle. 



Species about 100. Europe, Asia, temperate and tropic Africa. 



A. sp. A portion of a stem with cladodes but without flowers, 

 was brought from Lankawi by Mr. Curtis' collector. It is unidentifi- 

 able but may be A. racemosus Willd. 



§ G. Dracaeneae. 



8. Dracaena, L. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves linear sessile or lanceolate petioled, 

 nerves many parallel. Flowers in terminal panicles or racemes, white 

 or pink. Bracts small. Sepals and petals linear narrow more or less 

 connate into a tube. Stamens 6 inserted at the base of the tube, 

 filaments long filiform, anthers narrow versatile. Ovary 3 celled, 

 ovules 1 in each cell erect. Style filiform. Stigma capitate. Berry 

 globose red 1 to 3 seeded. Seeds globose or hemispheric albumen 

 horny, embryo, small. 



Species about 40. African, tropical Asiatic and Australian. 



Panicles or racemes erect, branches short and stiff. 

 Leaves linear acuminate sessile. 



Trees branched 20 to 60 feet tall. 

 Leaves narrow linear acuminate ... ... 1. D. granulata. 



Loaves 2 inches across, panicle large ... 2. D. bracJiystacJiis. 



