Draccena .] 
LILIACE2B. 
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1-2-celled and 1-2-seeded. — Shrubs, with subcoriaceous sessile or 
petioled leaves and copious flowers iu simple or pauicled racemes. 
Distrib. Warmer regions of the Old World. Species 40. 
Leaves in a dense rosette, ascending. 
Leaves 1-1 4 in. broad, without a red border. 
Limb much longer than the tube 1. D. angustifolia. 
Tube much longer than the limb 2. D. umbraculifera. 
Leaves 2-3 in. broad, with a distinct red border . . 3. D. concinna. 
Leaves spreading, laxly disposed on the branches . . 4. D. reflexa. 
1. D. angustifolia, Eoxb. ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 526. 
Trunk reaching a height of 10-12 feet, crowned with a dense rosette of 
ascending subcoriaceous ensiform leaves 1-2 feet long, 1-1\ inch 
broad, not petioled, but narrowed to half an inch above the clasping 
base. Panicle erect, with several dense spreading racemes £-£ foot 
long ; pedicels 1-4-nate, £ in. long, articulated above the middle ; 
bracts small, deltoid. Perianth £ in. long, greenish-white, the divisions 
twice as long as the cylindrical tube. Stigma exserted. Berry 3- 
lobed, orange-red, depresso-globose, £-£ in. broad. D. ensifolia, 
Wall. 
Seychelles, frequent in the forests, Horne , 612! Rodriguez, Balfour ! Spread 
through Tropical Asia to North Australia ; not African. 
2. D. umbraculifera, -Mcq. Hort. Schoenb. t. 95. Trunk several 
feet high, crowned with a dense rosette of ascending ensiform sub- 
coriaceous leaves 3-3£ feet long, l|-2 inches broad at the middle, not 
petioled, but narrowed to £ in. above the clasping base. Panicles short, 
erect, corymbose, with flowers in short dense capitate racemes ; 
pedicels simple or geminate, ascending £.-£ in. long, with a small 
deltoid bract at the base, not distinctly articulated. Perianth 1£-1£ in. 
long, with divisions not more than half as long as the cylindrical tube. 
Stigma much exserted. Lomatophyllum umbraculiferum, Bojer , Hort. 
Maur , 349. 
Mauritius, in the dense forests of the interior of the island, Bojer ! Endemic. 
3. D. concinna, Kunth ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 530. 
Trunk reaching 6 or 8 feet high, crowned with a dense rosette of very 
coriaceous lanceolate leaves 2-3 feet long, 2-3 inches broad at the 
middle, narrowed to an inch above the clasping base, bright green with 
a distinct red border. Flowers unknown. Cordyline Betschleriana, 
Ooppert in Nova Act. Nat. Cur. xxv. 55. 
Mauritius, on the Coin de Mire Island, Horne , 106 ! Endemic. 
4. D. reflexa, Lam. ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. 530. xvi. Trunk 
reaching 10-15 feet high, slender, furnished in the upper part with 
comparatively lax spreading oblanceolate green shining acute sub- 
