Draccena.] CXL. liliaceje (baker). 449 



Style exserted. — Kegel, Revis. Dracaen. 45 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xiv. 537. 



upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann, 98 ! and cultivated specimens ! 



Introduced into cultivation at Kew about 1860. 



44. D. Elliotii, Baker. Stem short, slender, woody. Leaves 

 crowded, ascending; petiole winged, channelled, 8-4 in. long, dilated 

 at the base ; blade oblong, acute, of moderately firm texture, 4-5 in. 

 long, 2-2 J in. broad at the middle, cuneate at the base ; midrib not 

 visible beneath in the upper half. Inflorescence a small globose sessile 

 head. Perianth | in. long ; segments linear-oblong, half as long as 

 the slender cylindrical tube. Stamens as long as the perianth- 

 segments. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : in thick bush at Kukuraa, Scott-Elliot, 4689 ! 



45. D.'goldieana, Bull, Cat. 1871, viii. Stem short, simple, woody. 

 Leaves crowded ; petiole channelled, 1-3 in. long, clasping at the base ; 

 blade ovate, acuminate, 6-9 in. long, 3-5 in. broad, broadly rounded at 

 the base, marbled with irregular transverse bands of bright green and 

 silvery grey in about equal proportions ; midrib distinct beneath nearly 

 to the apex. Flowers in a dense globose sessile head 2 in. diam. ; 

 surrounded by a few reduced leaves ; pedicels very short ; bracts 

 scariose, oblong-cuspidate, clasping the lower part of the flowers. 

 Perianth white, 1 in. long ; segments rather shorter than the tube. 

 Stamens rather shorter than the perianth -segments. Style finally 

 exserted.— Florist, 1873, 187 ; Bull, Cat. 1877, 9, t. 8 ; Baker in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xiv. 535 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6630 ; Andre in Lind. 111. Hort. 1878, 

 -t. 300. 



Upper Guinea. Introduced about 1870, by the Rev, Hugh Qoldie, of the 

 United Presbyterian Missionary Society, to the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. 



46. D. ovata, Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t.llSO. Stems short, branched. 

 Leaves rosulate, oblong, 3-4 in. long, 2 in. broad at the middle ; petiole 

 1-2 in. long. Flowers crowded into a short subsessile terminal sub- 

 spicate raceme ; primary bracts ovate, nearly as long as the flowers ; 

 pedicels very short, densely fascicled. Perianth 8-9 lin. long ; segments 

 linear, as long as the tube. Stamens not exserted — Schultes f. in 

 Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 345; Kunth, Enum. v. 13 ; Raker 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 536. Aletris pumila, J. Donn, Hort. Cant, 

 edit. ii. 42. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius. 

 No specimen at Kew, 



47. D. Lecomtei, Hua, Contr. Fl. Congo Fran<;. Lil. 15. Nearly 

 allied to D. ovaia, Gawl. A branched shrub 3-5 ft. high. Leaves 

 oblong, 5-6 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, crowded at the tip of the branches, 

 acute, narrowed to the base ; petiole very short, channelled, amplexi- 

 caul. Racemes very dense, panicled, 4-5 in. long ; bracts large, 

 ovate, amplexicaui, the lower crowded and flowerless ; flowers white. 



