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 C. 



Observe portions of stem o£ F. baccata^ Torr., from Los 

 Vegas, near Mexico, where it is used as soap. 



In the third Table Case the Yuccas are continued, fibres of 

 the following species being shown : Y. angustifolia- Pursh, 

 y, gloriosa, L. &c., &c. 



No. 38. Section of stem of Dragon Tree of Teneriffe 

 {Draccena Draco, L.), showing fibrous centre. Sections of 

 small stems are also shown, as well as photographs of the tree, 

 and an old engraving showing " a view from the west of the 

 " house and gardens of Collonel John Dominic de Franchis," 

 at Orotava, with a large dragon tree 51 feet in circumference. 

 An engraving of the famous colossal tree at Orotava, which 

 was destroyed in a hurricane in 1867, is exhibited on the wall 

 near th^ end window ; also a photograph of a tree in the Koval 

 Gardens at Ajuda, Lisbon. The tree derives its common name of 

 Dragon tree from a red resin exuded by it, known as Dragon's 

 Blood, samples of which are shown. 



No. 39. Dragon's Blood from Socotra, the resin 

 obtained from the trunks of Draccena Cinnabarl, Balf. fil. 

 Also instruments used in collecting the resin, and skin such as 

 is used for exporting the " Edah amsellah," or tears of 

 Dragon's Blood, a sample of which is shown. Observe, also, 

 a specimen of an inferior kind known as " Edah mukdehah," 

 consisting of the melted dust made into cakes, and afterwards 

 broken. Socotra Dragon's Blood has been identified as the 

 Kinnahari of Dioscorides, and is distinct from Dragon's Blood 

 of modem commerce which is furnished by Dcemonorops Draco 

 {see p. 37). Draccena schizantha, Baker, is believed to yield 

 the Dragon's Blood of Somaliland ; D. Omhet, Kotschy and 

 Pey., that of Suakin. On other side of Table Case note 

 fibrous stems of species of Cordyline ; also fibres of C. ter- 

 minaliSy Kunth., C. Pumilio, Hook, f,, C. indivisa, Kunth., 

 and C. australis. Hook. f. 



[In Case 15, in Room No. 2, observe a garment as worn by 

 the natives of the Navigator Islands, made of leaves of 

 Cordyline tertriinaiis, Kunth., and in Case 16 note a native New 

 Zealand garment made of leaves of an unknown species of 

 Cordyline, dyed with the bark of a species of Fagus.] 



No. 40. Models of different varieties of onions, the bulbs 

 of Allium Cepa, L., a widely cultivated esculent. It is sup- 

 posed to be originally a native of the East, and was well known 



