1072 BENGAL PLANTS. [Dracena. 
962. Dracena Linn. 
Shrubs, sometimes climbing, or small trees ; leaves alternate or 
crowded he a ubterminal, sessile or eng many-nerved, costate 
or not. Flowers in 1 termin al racemes, panicles, heads or umbels ; 
bracts small. Perianth pono: Saipariaiate ie shaped, or 
tubular, 6-cleft ; oe narr Stamens 6, adnate to base of 
perianth-tube ; filaments filiform or flattened ; pane versatile. 
Carpels 8, connate in a 8-celled ovary; ovules solitary, erect in 
each cell; style filiform; stigma capitate. Fruit a globose, 
didymous, or 3-lobed berry. Seeds globose or angled; testa 
thickened ; albumen horny; embryo small. 
Stems erect; leaves very broadly, shortly petioled; flowers in pie ; 
rry e-red 
Stems ae weakly branched ; leaves narrowly, ons patil 
flowers 2-3-nate ; berry cherry-red rniflora. 
2217. Dracmna spicata Roxb.; F. I. ii. 157; F. B. I. vi. 328. 
Chittagong. 
A stout shrub or small tree. 
2218. een TERNIFLORA Roxb.; F, I. ii. 159; F. B. I. 
vi. 
ai 
A amie shrub. 
963. Cordyline Commers. 
Shrubs with slender stems and crowded, subterminal, sessile or 
petioled leaves, subcoriaceous and many-nerved. Flowers small, 
paniculate, short-pedicelled; bracts small. Perianth corolline, 
tubular or narrowly campanulate, 6-cleft; lobes narrow. Stamens 
6, adnate to base of perianth-tube; filaments filiform or flattened ; 
anthers versatile. Carpels 3, connate in a short, 3-celled ovary ; 
ovules in each cell 4-16; style filiform ; stigma capitate or shortly 
3-lobed. Fruit a globose or 3-lobed dry berry. Seeds in each 
loculus several or, by abortion, solitary, obovoid or somewhat 
compressed ; testa black, shining; embryo nearly as long as the 
albumen. 
2219. CoRDYLINE TERMINALIS Kunth ; F. B.I. vi. 831. Dracena 
i, 156. 
Ashrub. The heen ‘* Draceena.”’ 
