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Trees, shrubs or underslirubs witK woody 

 or sub-woody stems or stemless plants. 

 Leaves flat, thin or thinly coriaceous, stiff 

 or flexible, usually with an evident and 

 prominent midrib beneath, never fleshy... 



Shrubs with fleshy fibrous stems or stemless 

 plants, with a thick creeping rootstock. 

 Leaves cylindric^, laterally compressed, 

 ha]f-cylindric or flat, fleshy or fleshily 

 coriaceous, rigid, firm or flexible, without 

 or with a very inconspicuous midrib 



Pieomele 



beneath 



« « 4 



/ 



Sansevieria. 



To indicate further the difference between the flowers of 

 Dracaena and those of Pieomele^ drawings of two species of each 

 genus are added. The flowers of nearly all the species of Pieomele 

 are of the type represented by fig. 4, P. fragrans (from a 



Z 



1. 

 2, 



3. 

 4. 



Pracaena Draco, Linn, x 5. 

 Dracaena yuccaefolia, EidL X 5. 

 Pieomele floribunda, N.E.Br. X ; 

 Pieomele fragrans, Salisb. X 2. 



