is 
CHARLWOODIA congesta. 
Crowded panicled Charlwoodia. 
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Linnean Class and Order. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order, ASPHODELE®. Perianthium sexpartitum v. sexfidum, petaloi- 
deum, regulare, Stamina sex, perianthio inserta v, hypogyna: tria foliolis exteriori- 
bus opposita quandoqne dissimilia v. nulla. Ovariwm liberum, 3-loculare, loculis poly- 
spermis, raro dispermis, Stylus 1, Stigma indivisum v. breviter 3-lobum. Pericarpium 
in plerisque Capsula 3-locularis, 3-valvis, valvis medio septiferis: nune Bacca indivisa, 
rarilsve tripartita. Semina test& atrA, crustace’, fragili: Albumine carnoso: Embryone 
incluso, Brown prodr. 274. 
CHARLWOODIA. Perianthium sexfidum, cylindrico-campanulatum, persistens : 
laciniis 3 exterioribus breviovibus, erectis: interioribus 3 alternis reflexis. Stamina 6, 
basi laciniarum inserta, Filamenta subulata, glabra, Anthere versatiles, basi bifide. 
Ovarium loculis polyspermis. Stylus 1, triquetrus, Stigma parvum, 3-lobum.—Caudex 
fruticosus, Folia elongata, nervoso-striata. Panicula lateralis, e spicis alternis multiforis, 
Flores tribracteati. Pedicelli solitarii ». bini, cum perianthio articulati. 

C. congesta, foliis amplexicaulibus elongato-lanceolatis nervoso-striatis eroso-serrulatis 
apice acuminatis, floribus paniculatis congestis, pedicellis inferioribus bifloris su- 
perioribus unifloris, bracteis exterioribus acutis: interioribus subbrevioribus pe- 
dicellum subzquantibus, 
Dracena congesta. Swt, hort. brit, p. 424, 

Stem erect, fruticose, in our specimens about 12 feet high, 
without any branches, scarred at the base with the marks of 
fallen leaves, clothed with brown bark. Leaves from 1 to 2 feet 
in length, rather crowded, at first erect, afterwards horizontal or 
more or less bent downwards with their weight, lanceolate, 
broadest in the middle, and tapering to both ends, clasping the 
stem, and ending with a sharp mucro at the point, striated with 
numerous longitudinal lines, smooth, and of a dark green on the 
upper side, and lighter underneath: margins erosely serrulate, 
with small cartilaginous teeth. Panicle lateral, near the top, 
crowded with numerous alternate branches, sometimes 2 or 3 
from the same joint, the stems angular, and surrounded at the 
base with a brown membranaceous taper-pointed bracte; 7a- 
cemes spreading, bluntly angular, furrowed, and thickly crowded 
with flowers, those near the base in pairs, the upper ones soli- 
tary. Pedicles short, jointed about the centre; below the joint 
are three small brown membranaceous bractes, which are about 
the length of, or scarcely longer than the pedicle: outer bracte 
rather longest, narrowest and acute, inner ones broader and con- 
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