DRACCENA DRACO (see DRACENA, Encycl.), is a native of Madeira, though it is there becoming scarce. The following account of it is by La Martiniere, naturalist in the last voyage of discovery by La Perouse. "The idea of the dracœna draco (says he) given by the shabby specimens cultivated in our hot-houses, is far inferior to that we entertain of it when we have an opportunity of seeing it in its native soil. I met with three in particular, of which the trunk was six or seven feet high, and four and a half, or five in diameter. The principal branches, 12 or 15 in number, and as thick as a man's body, shoot out a little obliquely, dividing themselves generally into two, and now and then into three, to the height of 40 or 50 feet, including the seven feet of the trunk. The leaves are all at the extremity of the branches, where they are placed in alternate order, and form a cluster. This tree presents the most perfect regularity to the eye, and tempts the spectator to think, that the most skilful gardener makes it the object of his daily care."