Crossword-Solution: DRAC 4 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The town is on both banks of the Waiandina River, with large "ivi" and other beautiful trees overhanging the water; brilliant coloured crotons, _dracænas,_ and other fine plants imparted a wealth of colour to the scene, and many of the grand old trees were heavily laden with ferns and orchids.

Then several men appeared bearing enormous Fiji baskets full of large rolls of food wrapped up in leaves, also smaller baskets made of the fresh leaves of the crimson _dracæna,_ also full of food.

There was also a great variety of _dracænas,_ striped and spotted with green, crimson, white, pink and yellow.

Here and there we would notice a variegated _croton_ or pink-leafed _dracæna,_ but these were uncommon.

This, which the learned Director called in scientific language a Thamno-Endogenarium, consists of groups of all kinds of bamboos, tufted growing palms, rattan canes (_Calami_), _Dracænæ,_ plantains, screw-pines, (_Pandani_), and such genera of tropical monocotyledonous plants.