Draccena.] cxl. LiLiACEiE (baker). 447 



florescence a subsessile panicle 1 ft. long, with a flexuose rhachis and 

 several short spreading simple branches ; flowers in dense clustei-s at 

 the tip and side of the branches ; pedicels very short ; bracts minute. 

 Perianth ^ in. long ; segments J the length of the very slender tube. 

 Anthers shorter than the filiform filaments. — Baker in Journ. Linn 

 Soc. xiv. 536. 



]Lower Guinea. Corisco Bay : Eloby Island, Mann, 1630 ! 



36. D, Buttneriy Engl. Jahrh. xv. 479. Leaves moderately dense ; 

 petiole slender, 6-8 in. long ; blade oblong, acute or acuminate, 4-G in. 

 long, cuneate at the base. Inflorescence 8 in. long ; secondary branches 

 short, distant ; flowers clustered ; pedicels short ; bracts lanceolate, 

 scariose. Perianth not seen. Berry globose, 1 -seeded. 



jMOvrer Guinea. Gaboon : Munda ; Sibange Farm, Biiltner, 537. 

 No specimen at Kew. 



37. D. densifolia. Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 165. Stem 

 slender, woody. Leaves laxly disposed, ascending ; petiole channelled, 

 4-8 in. long; blade oblong, narrowed to a deltoid cuspidate apex, 

 4-6 in. long, 2-3 in. broad at the middle, rounded at the base to the 

 winged apex of the petiole, firm in texture, glossy ; midrib visible 

 beneath only in the upper half. Inflorescence shortly peduncled ; 

 flowers in few dense clusters at the end and side of the rhachis; 

 pedicels ^-J in. long ; bracts minute. Perianth 1 in. long ; segments 

 shorter than the very slender cylindrical tube. — D. densifloi'a, Baker in 

 Journ Linn. Soc. xiv. 535. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann ! 

 I^ower Guinea. Gaboon River, Mann, 1037 ! 



38. D. monostachya^ Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 252. 

 Acaulescent. Leaves all in a radical rosette, ascending ; petiole slender, 

 above 1 ft. long ; blade lanceolate, 1 ft. long, 1 J-2 in. broad at the 

 middle, narrowed gradually to the apex, rounded at the base ; midrib 

 not visible in the upper half. Inflorescence a dense simple oblong 

 raceme 2-3 in. long ; peduncle 1 ft. long, with many empty bracts ; 

 pedicels very short, fascicled ; bracts minute. Perianth not seen. 

 Berry 2-3-seeded, deeply lobed. 



Xiower Guinea. Princes Island, Welwitsch, 3744 ! 



Var. angolensis. Baker. Leaves oblong, 6-8 in. long, 2-2\ in. broad, rounded 

 at the base. Peduncle shorter. Raceme not so dense. 



bower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto, Welwitsch ! 



39. D. phrynioides. Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 5352. Subacaulescent. 

 Leaves in a radical rosette; petiole slender, erect, J-1 ft. long; blade 

 •ovate or oblong, acuminate, 6-9 in. long, 2-4 in. broad, rounded at the 

 base, moderately firm, sometimes spotted with white ; midrib invisible 

 in the upper half. Inflorescence a shortly peduncled globose head, 

 l.V in. diam., surrounded by many ovate acute bracts as long as the 

 ilSwers. Perianth J in. long ; segments oblong, J the length of the 



