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tlie South Sea Islands, and has lately been sent out by the Messrs. Yeitch 
and Sons, to whom we are indebted for the accompanying illustration. 
Dr. Hooker figures a rather pretty form of Dracama, called mrculosa , 
var. maculata (Bot. Mag., t. 5662), sent to Kew from West Tropical Africa 
by M. Gustav Mann. It is a stove shrub of 6 to 8 feet in height, with 
slender stems, copiously augmented by means of surculi (or suckers), from 
the roots; the leaves are scattered or somewhat whorled, acuminately 
oblong-lanceolate, green with yellow spots; and the stems terminate in a 
lax globose corymb of slender-tubed pale yellowish flowers. 
