SYNOPSIS OF EAST INDIAN DRACHZNA AND CORDYLINE. 261 
de Pomba from the province of 8. Catharina, which affords a fine 
wood, and of the fruits of which pigeons are yt a ly fond. apr ep 
others same 
are £. subrotundum, St. Hil., from Gane Frio, z ‘Pollstavicnian, teat 
Minas Geraés, &c. 
Desouseeink oF Puate 135s, 
Fig uit on its flowering branch: natura! size, Fig. 2, Part of the 
pedicel. persistent sepals, the plowed gynophorus with a 5-lobed margin, 
show wing within ty) ie Bi _ the cicatrix of attachment of the fruit and 4 
mag it, hea half of the pericarp removed, 
pet the points of reeee distort of the putamen : nat, size. Fig. 4. e puta- 
Fi 
wi e r 
summit, the seed attached to the same, with its chalaza, e seed 
detached, showing the short raphe and the ergs — . ithe Gelow abd 
sinus, Fig. 8. e exalbuminous embryo, with the tes moved, showi 
the apical small radice,t turned away from the hilum, Fig. 9 e same pain 
edgeways: all natural size 
SYNOPSIS OF THE EAST INDIAN SPECIES OF DRACHINA 
AND CORDYLINE. 
By J. G. Baxer, F“L.S. 
Dracmna, Vand., Kunth Enum. v., 2. 
Flowers usually fascicled on the rachis, sciaoubidly bracteated ; 
98 Bs the ovary uniovulate; stigma capitate, with three minute 
lobe 
a Rep Baker—D. aie! 6344 2 Finlay. & Wall. in 
Wall, Cat., 5149, non Linn. Flower-bearing branches not more than 
¢ inch thick. ears ascending, the an nang } inch apart, narrow 
ensiform, 15—18 inches long, }—§ inch broad at the comrg narrowed 
gradually to an acute point, very slightly narrowed above — he dilated 
base, which clasps all round the stem and quite hides the internodes ; 
half of the leaf only; the veins very fine , immersed, not oblique; the 
edge concolorous. In oresenve dainty sald, lax, simple spike 
or deltoid panicle reachin re than a foot long, with a few ae | 
simple ascending racemose eis Flowers in ‘distant fascic e8, 
from three to as many as half-a-dozen in a cluster. Bracts minute, 
deltoid. Pedicels not more than a line long, — near the apex. 
Perianth slender, cylindrical, 8—9 lines long arrow — 
about as long as the tube, the Bact * acheied a stigma y 
ee Eee Zi ; 
* The character of the absence of stolons, relied upon by Regel to separate 
flowerless Draceenas from Cordylines, does not invariably hold good. 
