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root, bearing in its upper portion a raceme of lovely flowers, 

 which are large, yellow, spotted with purple, and yield an ex- 

 quisite fragrance, which resembles no odour so much as that 

 of newly gathered cowslips and primroses. J. H. Lance, Esq., 

 found B. Lanceawa Lindl. upon trees, in woods of Surinam, 

 and presented it to the London Horticultural Society, in 1833. 

 The drawing figured was made last August in the collection 

 of Messrs. Loddiges. {Bot. Reg., April.) 



2530a MONACHA'NTHUS. CD p.r.w Bot. reg. 1752 



Vmiis Lindl. greeu.Jlwd. £123 or 2? n G.Y Brazil (" in the Corcovado ") 1830? 



See in p. 147. It is, when without flowers, so similar to Cata- 

 setum tridentatum, as to seem the same. Its flowers, borne in 

 an erect raceme, are in texture fleshy, in colour green, with the 

 exception of a yellow margin and interior to the cowl-shaped 

 labellum, and some obscure purple spots on the petals. — Fi- 

 gured from a specimen communicated from Wentworth Gardens. 

 It appears that it is not known by whom, or at what time, this 

 species has been inti'oduced to Britain. [Bot. Beg., April.) 



CCXLVII. KsphodelecE. 



1020. DRACjE^NA. [C r.l Bot. reg. 1749 



t8467 terminalis Jac. t(:rm\DsX.injlorescenced * □ el 12 mr W South Sea Islands 1820. 



" One of the most graceful of arborescent stove plants. In 

 appearance it resembles a palm." Its root ( ? rootstock) is large, 

 woody, and fusiform ; the natives prepare materials of food and 

 drink from this. When the root (? rootstock) is first dug out 

 of the ground, the matter of which it is composed is hard and 

 fibrous, almost tasteless, and of a white or light yellow colour. 

 The natives bake it in large ovens under ground. After being 

 baked it appears like a different substance altogether, being of a 

 yellowish brown colour, soft, though fibrous, and saturated with 

 a highly saccharine juice. It is sweet and pleasant to the taste, 

 and much of it is eaten in this state, but the greater part is em- 

 ployed in making an intoxicating liquor much used by the na- 

 tives. A good beer, too, may be prepared from the material 

 of the root (? rootstock), and rum has been distilled from the 

 roots. The leaves furnish an excellent provender for cattle, and 

 form a good sea stock for that purpose. Other parts of the 

 plant have been applied as follows : — " The natives frequently 

 plant the roots thickly around their enclosures, interweave the 

 stems of the plant, and form a valuable permanent hedge. The 

 branch was always an emblem of peace, and, in times of war, 

 borne, together with a young plantain tree, as a flag of truce, 

 by the messengers who passed between the hostile parties. The 

 leaves, woven together by their stalks, formed a short cloak, which 

 the natives wore in their mountainous journeys ; they also make 

 the most durable thatch for the sides and roofs of their best 

 houses ; are employed in constructing their tents in war, and 



