442 LILIACEAE. | Dracaena. 
. CORDYLINE, Commers. 
Perianth colored, spite or campanulate, divided into six 3—5-nerved 
lobes. Stamens 6, inserted at the throat; filaments subulate; anthers 
versatile, introrse, bifid at the base. Ovary 3-celled; ovules numerous. 
Style filiform; stigma 3-lobed or nearly entire. Berry globose, often few- 
ed. Seeds obovoid, penning often curved; testa black, shining. 
Renbryo axile, curved. — Trees or shrubs, with generally a awinia trunk 
which emits shoots son the ong ee crowded at the top, yee 
lanceolate, closely striate. Flowers spicate or racemose on the alte 
branches of a terminal panicle, bibracteate, the perianth jointed mini tie 
short Laci 
t 10 ae atc nesras to India, the a archipelago, Australia, N. Zealand, 
the Pacific | ands; one species indigenous to B 
In cul vides ion 6. Jacquin Kth., with Seas muet leaves, and C. Sieberi, Kth.? with 
purple and scarlet lea 
1. C. terminalis, Kunth, Enum. Pl. V, 25. — Shrubby, 6—12 ft. high, with 
a large tuberous saccharine root. Stem simple or sparingly branched, 
erect, marked with spires of leaf-scars. Leaves broad lanceolate, 1—2 ft. 
long, 3'/2—4‘ broad at the middle, contracting to a petiole of 2—3’, with 
many longitudinal nerves diverging from a short rib. Panicle 1 ft. long 
or more, the branches 5—6‘, supported by foliaceous bracts. Flowers 
sessile, tribrntteate: the outer bract ovate, 11/,—2”, the two lateral ones 
half that size. Perianth 4”, split to the middle into 6 equal lobes which 
Stamens and style as long as the perianth, the anthers yellow. Berry 
2—3” in diameter, yellowish. — C. Eschscholziana, Mart. — C. Ti, Schott. 
— Dracaena terminalis, Reichard. — Calodracon terminalis, Planch. — 
Stigma simple punctiform in my specimens (sterile fl.?) 
Af 
The leaves, «1 
as a for food, or for plates; they are also excellent fodder for horses and eattle. 
es ranges from the Hawaiian Is lands through all Polynesia to the Malayan at 
chipelago and China. Tahitian name: «Ti 
3. DRACAENA, Vandell. 
Flowers as in Cord; but the lobes, of the perianth 1-nerved. Cells 
of ovary each with 1 ascendi ing ovule. Stigma entire or scarcely divided. 
Berry 1—3-seeded. ps globose, with a thick, often pulpose testa. 
Embryo small, at the base of horny albumen next the hilum. — Trees 
or shrubs, with a simple or dichotomously dividing trunk. Leaves Eietes i 
at the tops, linear or lanceolate, closely striate. Inflorescence a termi inal 
foliaceous panicle, sometimes reduced to a simple raceme, spike or head, 
the pedicels articulate with the perianth. 
