DRAC.^iNA GOLDIEANA 
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DRAGiENA GOLDIEANA 
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costa, while the surface is banded irregularly with simple or forked entire or 
broken bars, which are alternately dark olive-green and silver-grey, the two colours 
being about equally distributed over the surface. The under-side, which is 
generally apparent in the unfolded leaf or leaves occupying the centre or heart of 
the plant, is of a reddish-purple colour. The effect of this assemblage and 
arrangement of colours is superb, the plant at once arresting the eye by its 
distinctness, not less than by its beauty. 
