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1. C. TEBMiNAMS (L.) Kunth.J Baston, Baston de San Jose (Sp. Fil.) ; 

 Saguilala, Toncodpari (Tag.)- 



An erect, shrubby, glabrous plant 1 to 3 m high from tuberous roots, 

 the steins simple or somewhat branched, marked with leaf-scars. Leaves 

 lanceolate to oblanceolate, usually tinged with red or purple, 30 to 60 cm 

 long, mostly near the apex of the stem, acuminate, base narrowed, 

 the nerves very numerous, slender, diverging from the midrib. Panicle 

 terminal, purplish, laxly branched, the branches up to 30 cm in length, 

 slender, the pedicels very short. Flowers pink, about 1 cm long, slender, 

 tubular, the perianth split to the middle into 6 equal lobes. Berry globose, 

 about 6 mm in diameter, few- or 1-seeded. (Fl. Filip. pi. 98, Dracaena 

 terminalia.) 



Commonly cultivated for its ornamental foliage, fi. Dec-Feb. ; common in 

 and about towns in the Philippines, but certainly introduced. India to 

 Polynesia, but frequently only in cultivation. 



6. YUCCA Linnaeus 



Shrubby, erect, simple or branched plants with stout thickened stems. 

 Leaves alternate, crowded, numerous, narrow, sessile, with a sharp rigid 

 point, the margins entire or denticulate. Flowers numerous, in terminal 

 racemes or panicles, usually white. Perianth pendulous or drooping, sub- 

 globose to campanulate, the segments distinct or slightly united at the 

 base. Stamens 6, hypogynous; filaments shorter than the perianth, en- 

 larged above. Ovary 3-celled, rarely with 1 or 6 cells. Ovules 2 to 

 several in each cell. Fruit berry-like and indehiscent, or a loculicidal 

 capsule. (The Indian (American) name of Mdnihot, erroneously applied 

 here.) 



Species about 20 in the warmer parts of America, 1 or 2 introduced in 

 the Philippines. 



* 1. Y. ALOIFOLIA L. 



Stem stout, cylindric, marked with leaf-scars, 1 to 2 m high usually 

 sparingly branched above. Leaves very numerous, stiff, spreading above, 

 the older and lower ones deflexed, falling from the lower part of the stem, 

 30 to 70 cm long, about 3 cm wide, the apex with a sharp, rigid point, con- 

 stricted below the middle, the base slightly dilated, margins finely scabrid- 

 denticulate. Panicles conical, ample, many-flowered, 30 to 50 cm long. 

 Flowers white, about 5 cm long. 



Occasionally cultivated, rarely flowering here. A native of tropical 

 America, now cultivated in many other warm countries. 



24. AMARYLLIDACEAE (Amaryllis or Maguey Family) 



Slender or coarse herbs from bulbous, tuberous, or corm-like rootstocks, 

 the leaves radical, narrow or broad, sessile or pedicelled, the scape naked 

 or leafy. Perianth superior, regular or irregular, the tube long, short, 

 or none, 6-lobed or 6-parted, sometimes with a crown at the mouth. Sta- 

 mens 6, inserted on the segments, the filaments free or connate; anthers 

 erect or versatile. Ovary inferior, 3-celled; ovules many, 2-seriate. Fruit 

 capsular, loculicidal, rarely fleshy and bursting irregularly. 



Genera 80, species about 800, in all w^rm countries, 11 genera and about 

 15 species in the Philippines, mostly introduced. 



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