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I have given to this plant the name oi draco-. 

 fhyllum verticillaium, becaufe its flowers grow 

 in whorls. 



Its leaves are coriaceous, and flightly den^ 

 rated on their margins. They leave their im- 

 preflions on the ftalk in proportion as they de 

 tach themfelves from it, as is the cafe in all the 

 fpecies of drac^na, to which this plant bears a 

 great.affinity, even in the texture of its wood. 

 It therefore belongs to the divifion of the mono- 

 cotyledonous plants, notwithftanding it has a 

 calyx and a corolla, and it muft naturally be 

 claiTed at the end of the family of the afparagi. 



Explanation of the Figures. Plate XL. 

 Fig. I. Plant of the natural fize. 

 Fig. 2. Flower. 



Fig. 3. Corolla magnified, and cleft laterally, 

 in order to fhew the llamina. 

 Fig. 4. Capfule. 



Onfurvevinsjfrom the fummit of thefe moun- 

 tains an immcnfe extent of reefs which bar all 

 approach to this land, we difcovered another 

 channel not far diflant to the weftward of that 

 by which we had reached the anchorage where 

 our fliips then lay. To the fouth our view ex- 

 tended over a fine valley, furrounded by large 

 plantations of cocoa-palms, whence we faw the 



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