84 PLANTS OF PRINCE <)F WALES ISLAND. 



The flowers are very sweet scented. The fruit is bitter, 

 and said to be poisonous. (Apparently some species of 

 Webera the Jarum Jarum of the Malays). 



HEXANDBIA— MONOGYNIA. 



Bromelia. 



Bromelia ananas. The Pine Apple. 



Cultivated, but require and receive very little attention, 

 so that in many parts they appear to be growing wild. Ten 

 thousand plants are reckoned to fill an Oorlong of ground, 

 producing, in the second year one pine apple each. A variety, 

 with the leaves variegated has been introduced from the Moluc- 

 cas. 



Orinum. 



Grinum zeylanicum. In gardens. 



Gethyllis. 



Gethyllis lanccolata ? {Curculigo sp.). 



Leaves lanceolate, ovate, plaited. Spikes radical, ovate. 

 vaginae or scales, lanceolate, concave, sessile. Flowers small, 

 yellow ; segments lanceolate. Cultivated in gardens. Came 

 from China. 



Dracoena. 



Dracoena ferrea. {Gordyline terminalis var. ferrea). 



The germen when the plant is in flower, being dissected, 

 contains in each cell (three in number) the rudiments of several 

 seeds. Probably only one comes to perfection. At the root 

 of the pedicel of each flower are three small lanceolate scales, 

 which Loureiro calls a three cleft proper Perianthium. The 

 stem is correctly described by Loureiro, and certainly does not 

 at all correspond with the specific character of Linneus, 

 " arborea." 



Jour. Straits Branch 



