302 



fascicled, cylindric : racemes lateral, simple or composite : berries 

 pendulous : flowers white. 



Eohilound, flowering in October and November. 



GEKUS XIV. DRACJENA. 



Hexandria monogfynia. Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. 'Fiova. Drakaina^ a female dragon ; tbe inspissated juice 

 becomes a powder, like tbe dragon's blood. 



Spec Chab. Perianth coroUaceous, tubular, deeply 6-cleft, de- 

 ciduous, segments sub-spathulalte linear, obtuse, equal, much spread- 

 ing or recurved : stamens 6, inserted at the throat of tbe perianth, 

 exserted, erect spreading, filaments flat, narrow linear, attenuated 

 at the apex, anthers 2-oelled, oblong, 2-lobed at the apex, 2- cleft 

 at the base, fixed by the middle of the back, introrse : ovary free, 

 sessile, oblong, 3-celled : ovules solitary, sessile, ascending : styline 

 column filiform, sulcately triangular, erect, exceeding the stamens, 

 stigma 3-lobed, lobes round : berry sub-globose, fleshy, succulent, 

 1 — 3-seeded: seeds sub-globose: albumen homy. — Stems arboreous, 

 simple or branched, cicp/trised by the fallen leaves : leaves collected, 

 at the top of the stem and branches, lanceolate or linear, quite 

 entire, half stem-clasping, glabrous : panicles terminal, solitary, 

 simple or branched, bracteate : flowers pedieelled, solitary, twin, or 

 in three's or five's, racemosely arranged on the branches of the 

 panicle, whitish, greenish or yellowish white : pedicels bracteolate 

 at the base, jointed above. 



(1) D. spiCATA. XEoxKj ' 



Eoxb. flor. Ind. II. p. 157. 



Spec. Chae. Caulescent : leaves lanceolate, reflexed : spikes 

 terminal: bracts many-flowered : corolla cyHndric, at length twisted : 

 flowers pale greenish-yellow. 



Chittagong, flowering in .the hot season. 



(2) D. wALEiCHn. (Kunth.) 



Ident. Kunth Enum. pi. v. p. 11. 



Si/n. D. temiflora, Eoxh. I. e. 159. 



Spec. Chak. Fruticose : leaves petioled, broadly lanceolate :• 

 racemes terminal, solitary, peduncled, erect, somewhat branched at 

 the base : flowers in throes pediceUed, pale greenish-white. 



SUhet, flowering in January and February. 



