.1J62 the DRAO^NAS of the MALAY PENINSULA. 



R. iNFESTUs W. On rough ground and in open woods. Only 

 known at present in the north-west of the county, at Kingswood, 

 near Kington. First found, 1895. 



R. BoRRERi Bell Salt. Exclude the R. Sprcnr/elii W. var. 

 Borreri: Flora, OG. Extremely local. Ahundant on wooded hills 

 lying near the centre of the county, for about three square miles 

 between the Mynde Park and Orcop, but unknown elsewhere. 

 First found, 1894. 



Var. c. viRGULTORUM A. Ley. See Flora, 93, under li. roithmsus. 

 Local, and thinly scattered over the north-east and north of the 

 county ; apparently becoming more frequent in Shropshire, where 

 a fine series of specimens, kindly sent to me by Mr. R. de G. Benson, 

 shows that this bramble makes a near approach to Fi. infestus W. 

 Kimbolton ; Thornbury ; Ludford Park ; Brampton Bryan. First 

 published, Journ. Bot. 1894, 143. 



R. Leyanus Rogers. Flora, 520 (as K. Purchasii Blox.). On 

 rough banks and in woods ; widely distributed and locally abundant 

 in Herefordshire. From Howie Hill in the south to lildwin Wood 

 in the east, and Lyonshall in the north-west, this well-marked 

 bramble is known in about twelve distinct stations scattered through 

 all the districts of the county. 



(To be continued.) 



THE DRACHMAS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 

 By H. N. Ridley, M.A., F.L.S. 



The Dracaenas are by no means an easy group of plants to 

 study, on account of the absence of very distinctive characters in 

 herbarium specimens on which so many species have been based. 

 The leaves are apt to vary very much in different parts of the same 

 plant, in form and size. The flowers are in almost all species very 

 similar, and though the inflorescence varies from a raceme to a 

 spreading panicle, yet the racemose species often have a tendency 

 to throw out lateral branches, and the paniculate ones vary so 

 much in the development of the panicle that it is often difficult to 

 distinguish plants by this chai-acter. Tha fruit again gives but 

 little aid, as its form and size differ according to whether one, two, 

 or three seeds are developed. The form of the whole plant is really 

 one of the best distinguishing characteristics, but from the great 

 size of many species this is not to be gathered from herbarium 

 specimens, which too often have no notes giving any clue as to 

 whether a species is a big tree or a low shrub. In the following 

 notes I give on the species I have met with, I design to collect 

 together such observations as I think are supplementary to the 

 descriptions of our species in the Flora of British India. 



Native Names. — The native name for the arboreous Dracsnas 

 commonly in use is " Chemou," but " Andong," which is, strictly 

 speaking, Cordyline terminalis Kunth, is often applied to the large 



