126 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIONS. 



Drac.exa, Vaud. 

 Perianth tubular, deeply 6-cleft, caducous, valvatc in bud. Stamens 6, adnatc 

 to the pei'iantli-tube, and free from the throat. An/tiers 2ceUed, versatile. Orari/ 

 free, 3-celled, each cell l-ovuled. Style 3-sulcate, tiliform. Stii/ma capitatuly 3- 

 lobed. Leaves putioled, or sessile and half stem-clasping. 



f Flowers in panicles. 

 * Leaves sessile, with a narrowed stem-ela.ipinf/ liase. Perianth-luhes more or less 

 recurred from the middle. 



D. ANGUSTIFOLIA, Rosb. £.T. Tree forests of South Andaman. Groat 



Kwam-Un-nek (Kurz) Kicobar. Trice and Track. 



Panicle eroot, shorter than the leaves, stiff; outer bractlets 1-2 lines long, ■with 

 scarious border, filaments white. Berry-lobes the size of a small pea. 



D. ENsiFOLiA, Wall, E.S. Upper Tenasserim. 



Panicle nodding, longer than the leaves, flexuoso. Bracts acute, almost -wholly 

 scarious ; filaments orange. Pedicels i inch long. 



D. BRACETi-nvLLA, Kz., £.S. Tree forcsts of the Andamans. 



Panicle much shorter than the :^ to 1^ inch long leaves, erect, stifF. Bracts 

 linear acuminate, herbaceous, with scarious margin. Pedicels only 2 to 3 lines long. 



** Leaves narrowed in a complicate petiole. 



\ Perianlh-loles erect- spreading, conniving in a tube. Small shrubs. 



D. ELLiPTiCA, Thbg. var. n. Chittagong and all over 



Burma and the Andamans. 



Flowers sparse. Bractlets 1 line or longer. var. /3. Tenasserim. 



var. a. elliptica. Flowers by twos or threes, white. 



Kwon len-hpyu. 



var. j3. atropurpurea, Bak. Flowers solitaiy, purplish outside. 



Ewon-len-hnet. 

 D. Helfeeiaxa, Kz. ^.iS'. Tree forests of Pegu and Tenasserim. 



Flowers 1 -sided. Bractlets minute, broad and scarious. 



W Perianth-lobes removed from the middle. Trees. 



D. teexifolia, Roxb. Khakyen Hills. 



Panicle rather contracted. Corolla twisted. Bracts scarious. 



f f Flotrers in simple terminal racemes. Leaves narrowed in a leafy petiole. 



D. spiCATA, Eoxb., E.T. Tree forcsts of Chittagong and South 



Andaman, Kondul and Kar Nicobar. 



PiMluncle shorter than the leaves, bracted, scaly. Pedicels short. Corolla 

 twisted, tube long, the lobes short, spreading. 



D. PACHTPHTLLA, Kz., E.T. Tree forests of South Andaman. Malacca. 



Peduncle short or almost none ; the raceme almost as long as the petiole. Pedicels 

 very short ; corolla not twisted, the lobes not recurved.' 

 In addition to the above Kurz records 



D. I.TXEAEIFOLIA, iliq. Bcach forcsts of Kamorta and Katehall. 



I). Finhn/soni, Baker. 

 D. GRiFFiTnii, lleg. Pare in the tree forests of Kamorta. 



' Kurz remarks ; " A 7). spieatu, specie arborea qua cum cl Baker conjimxit, statura humili et 

 periuntho recto, non torto, jam differt." — J.A.S.B. II. 1873, p. 249. 



