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LILIACEiE. 
[. Draccena . 
coriaceous leaves 6-8 inches long, f-lj in. broad at the middle, narrowed 
to | inch above the dilated clasping base. Panicle erect, with several 
dense spreading racemes 3-6 inches long ; pedicels inch long, 
articulated at the tip, the lower bracts lanceolate. Perianth greenish- 
white, | in. long, with segments 3^4 times as long as the tube. Style 
exserted. Berry red, depresso-globose, \ in. broad. Lomatophyllum 
reflexum, Bojer , Hort. Maur . 349. 
Var. cerivua, Baker , loc. cit. Leaves the same size and shape as 
those of the type, bordered with a red line. Panicles deflexed, 
copiously branched. Dracaena cernua, Jaccj. Hort. Schoenb. i. 50, t. 96. 
Lomatophyllum cernuum, Bojer , Hort- Maur. 349. 
Var. angttstieolia, Baker, loc. cit. Panicle less compound, erect. 
Leaves narrower and longer, 1-2 in. long by under -§ in. broad. 
Var. linearieolia, Baker. Panicle less compound, cernuous. 
Leaves 6-8 inches long by i inch broad at the middle. D. linearifolia, 
Ayres , MSS. 
The two first varieties common in the woods of Mauritius ; the third gathered by 
Dr. Balfour in Rodriguez ; and the fourth by Dr. Ayres in the woods of the Pouce. 
Also Tropical Africa and Madagascar. Bois de Ghandelle. 
6. COHNIA, Kunth. 
Perianth campanulate, 6-partite, with 6 equal ligulate divisions, 
spreading when fully expanded. Plowers polygamous ; stamens in- 
cluded, surrounding a rudimentary ovary in the male flowers, with 
oblong versatile anthers. Ovary ovoid, with a peltate sessile stigma ; 
ovules 4-6 in a cell. Fruit a small globose berry. — Climbing shrubs, 
with the leaves of Cordyline and copious small fragrant white flowers 
in panicles with racemose branches. Distrib. Polynesia and Mas- 
carene Isles. Species 3. 
1. C. floribunda, Kunth, JEnum. v. 36. A climbing shrub, with 
stout terete woody branches. Leaves crowded at the top of the 
branchlets, lanceolate, subcoriaceous, 1 J-2 feet long, 2-3 inches broad at 
the middle, narrowed to the point and with a distinct channelled sheath- 
ing petiole. Flowers in a very compound panicle a foot or more long, 
with racemose branchlets ; pedicels -i— J. in. long, articulated at the 
tip, with three minute deltoid bracteoles at the base. Perianth cam- 
panulate, as long as the pedicel, white or tinged with red, the ligulate 
divisions obscurely 3-nerved. C. parviflora, Kunth, loc. cit. Dracaena 
mauritiana, Bojer, Hort. Maur. 348, non Lam. 
Mauritius, in the dense woods of the centre of the island. Endemic. Bois de 
Chandelle. 
