328 CLVI. LILIACEX, (J. D. Hooker.) [Dracena. 
A D. brachyphylla, Kurz. For. Flor. ii. 544; a low shrub, leaves 
3-1 ft. costate, panicle erect stiff quite smooth shorter than the leaves, 
flowers 3 in., filaments white. D. atropurpurea, var. Kurzü, Baker 1n 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 533. 
ANDAMAN ISLANDS, frequent, Kurz. . thick 
I have seen only very imperfect specimens. Kurz describes the stem as 
as a goose-quill or twice as thick. 
5. D. brachystachys, Hook. f. ; leaves 3 ft. by 2 in. ensiform coria- 
ceous costa beneath very stout, branches of panicle scaberulous spreading, 
flowers shortly pedicelled ternately fascicled. 
PENANG; Monisti road, Curtis, 2302. lar 
Stem 10-12 ft., 2-3 in. diam. Leaves fascicled. Panicle apparently very E 
with rather distant horizontal strict branches, bracts very small. Flowers m Ta yl 
remote fascicles 2 in. long white, pedicel Ae in.—Described from one leaf an 
portion of a panicle. 
** Leaves elliptic-lanceolate or -oblanceolate (very narrowly in D. 
Porteri). 
t Flowers in spiciform racemes that are simple or branched at the 
base only. 
6. D. Porteri, Baker in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1873, 262; in dd 
Linn. Soc. xiv. 529; shrubby, leaves 8-10 by 1-1} in. sessile narrowly 1 
ceolate or oblanceolate costate towards the base, raceme shortly pa 
erect, flowers 3 in. long, pedicels very short, fruit pisiform. D. macula™ 
Wall, Cat. 5748 (not of Rozb.). 
PENANG, Porter, King's Collector; SiNcAPOonE, Wallich. MALACOA, Grifit 
(Kew Distrib. 5874), Maingay (K. d. 1687).—DISTRIB. Siam. ith nar- 
Shrub 4-6 ft. (King’s Coll.).—Apparently very near D. spicata, but wi v be 
rower leaves. Wallich’s 5148 A has spotted leaves; his B from Singapore may 
different, it is more slender with a more contracted leaf-base. 
7. D. spicata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 157; arboreous, leaves 6-18 
3-2 in. very broadly petioled elliptic or broadly oblanceolate "s 
acuminate, raceme long or short simple or branched at the base, 
fascicled very shortly pedicelled, fruit pisiform } in. diam., or 3-lo 
2 in. fleshy. Kunth Enum. v. 10; Wall. Cat, 5146; Regel Rens. 
44; D. Wallichii, Kunth in Act. Acad. Berol. 1842, 26. 
SILHET, Wallich, CHITTAGONG, Rowburgh, SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLANDS, e ege 
lam unable to unravel the synonymy and habitats of this species an@ `" Ais, 
flora, which however, according to Roxburgh and Kurz are very different p . 
Baker (Journ, Bot. 1873, 263, and Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 532) unites thes o the 
spicata), together with D. aurantiaca, Wall., and gives its distribution a8 P frica 
eastern Himalaya to the Nilghiris, Malacca, and the Congo River in Wester? e as 
Of these the Himalayan (for which Griffith, Wallich, and I are cited), is an € ecies. 
none of us collected it there. On the other hand it is probably a Malayan KN 
Roxburgh describes the flower as numerous „and sessile in fascicles, Pale gr 
cleft about half way down, and the ripe berries as deep reddish orange. we 
the flowers are in twos or threes, an inch long, greenish yellow and the berries 
crimson. 
Drac. 
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8. D. terniflora, Rorb. Fl. Ind. ii. 159; a low decumbent der? 
shrub, leaves 6-12 in. by 1-2 in. elliptic or oblanceolate finely acu™ Regel 
petiole 1-6 in., flowers 2-3-nate pedicelled, fruit pisiform or 3-lobed. e 
Revis. Drac. 16 ; D. ternifolia (error for terniflora), Kurz For. Fl. n. 
