444 CXL. LiLiACE^ (baker). [Dracceua. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Ninia, Scott-Elliot, 4815! and without precise 

 locality, AfzeUus ! Don ! Ashanti : Assin-Yan-Cooraassie, Cummins, 226 ! Niger 

 Delta : Angiama, Barter, 2095 ! Old Calabar River, Mann, 2327 ! 



Introduced into cultivation at Chiswick by G. Bon in 1821. The leaf is narrower 

 in proportion to its length than in D. godseffiana, and in the variegated forms the 

 spots are fewer and pale green, not white, and the scariose rudimentary leaves of the 

 lower part of the stem are larger and more persistent. 



24. D. godseffiana, Uort. Sander ex Baker in Gard. Chron. 1894, 

 xvi. 212. Stem slender, erect, terete, green, much-branched. Leaves 

 2-3-nate, subsessile, oblong, 4-5 in. long, 2 in. broad at the middle, 

 dark green, usually variegated with copious small white spots ; midrib 

 conspicuous from the base to the apex. Raceme lax, oblong, 2-3 in. 

 long ; bracts minute, lanceolate, flowers in a terminal and several lateral 

 fascicles ; pedicels \ in. long. Perianth greenish-white, f in. long ; 

 segments linear, as long as the tube. Stamens as long as the perianth- 

 segments. Styl'e exserted. Berry globose, bright red, J-| in. diam. — 

 Garden, 189G, ii. 276 (with figure) ; Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 7584. 



Upper Guinea. Lagos, cultivated specimen, Millen ! 



Introduced into cultivation about 1892, and distributed by Messrs. Sander of 

 St. Albans. 



25. D. acauliSy Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 252. 

 Acaulescent. Leaves concentrated in a radical rosette, ascending, lanceo- 

 late, 1—3 ft. long, lJ-2 in. broad at the middle, narrowed gradually to 

 the tip and a long channelled petiole ; midrib conspicuous on the under 

 side except towards the tip. Panicle 4-5 ft. long, with many flexuose 

 racemose branches ; lower branch-bracts lanceolate, h ft. long, and 

 raceme 6-8 in. long ; lower pedicels very short, 3-4 in a cluster. 

 Perianth cylindrical, 14-15 lin. long ; segments rather longer than the 

 tube. Stamens as long as the perianth-segments. Style exserted. 



Z.ower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto, 1000-2400 ft., Welwitsch, 3752 ! 

 3753! 



26. D. Poggei, Engl. Jahrh. xv. 478. Trunk slender. Leaves 

 laxly disposed, with a slender petiole 3-4 in. long and a firm lanceolate- 

 acuminate blade, 1 ft. long, 1-1 J in. broad at the middle, rather rounded 

 at the base ; midrib visible only on the lower side in the lower half. 

 Inflorescence spicate, about 3 in. long ; lower bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 

 1 J— 2 in. long. Perianth cylindrical, 2 in. long ; tube twice as long as 

 the linear segments. Filaments filiform, as long as the perianth-seg- 

 ments. Berry 2-3-seeded, 2-3-lobed. 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : by the Lomarai River, Pogge, 1434. 

 Lunda : by the Lulua River, Pogge, 1456 ! 



27. D. humilis. Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 166. Acaulescent. 

 Leaves few, aggregated in a basal rosette ; petiole long, slender, erect, 

 dilated at the base; blade firm, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 9-12 in. long, 

 "2-2^ in. broad, with a distinct midrib only in the lower part. Flowers 

 in a short simple shortly peduncled erect spike, the lower 2-3 in a 



