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shrubby species, snch as D. aurantlaca Wall. The smaller species, 

 such as D. Porteri Bale, are often called "Poko San Juan" 

 (St. John's Plant), a name evidently derived from the Portuguese ; 

 but this nanie is also applied to Diauella ensifolin Red. 



CoRDYLiNE TERMiNALis Kuuth. Though this plant is inserted 

 in the Flora of British India as if it were a native of the Malay 

 Peninsula, it is not known anywhere except in gardens. It has not 

 even established itself anywhere as an escape, as far as I have seen, 

 nor does it often fruit here. It is commonly planted in graveyards 

 and round villages, and must have been brought from further east 

 many years ago. Some tribes of Dyaks in Borneo associate the 

 red-leaved variety ferrea with slaughter, and no one who has not 

 taken one or more heads is privileged to plant it in his garden. 



The following is a list of the wild Dracaenas known to me from 

 the Malay Peninsula : — 



A. Trees or tall shrubs with spreading panicles. 



(a) With narrow leaves. {h) With broad leaves. 



D. graminifolia Wall. D. Maingayi Hook. fil. 



D. granulata Hook. fil. D. aurantiaca Wall. 



D. brachystachys Hook. fil. D. lonyij'olia Ridl. 



B. Little branched low shrubs with slender stems and racemose 

 inflorescence (often with one or two short branches at the base). 



P. Porteri Bak. D. brevijiora. 



D. ternifiora Roxb. D. singapiirensis. 



D. congesta Eidl. D. siamica. 



C. Tall slender shrubs with drooping branches and wide- 

 spreading pendent panicles. 



D. nutans Ridl. D. gracilis Wall. 



D. GRAMINIFOLIA Wall. Cat. 5149. A tall elegant tree about 

 20 ft. tall, with a smooth white stem 4 in. or more through, much 

 branched above, and densely leafy. The leaves linear-acuminate, 

 with their bases clasping the stem, 6 in. long by ^ in. across, deep 

 polished green. Panicle a foot long, rather lax, about 6 in. across ; 

 branches suberect, rather slender. Flowers somewhat distant, an 

 inch long, on a pedicel \ in. long, split about half-way down, the 

 tube dilated towards the base, whitish green, free part of perianth 

 linear. Stamens as long as the lobes, with fairly stout filaments. 

 Stigma clubbed. 



luhabits streams and wet spots in thick jungle ; flowering rarely. 

 Singapore, Bukit Timah (3587*/), Bukit Mandai (3800) ; Perak, 

 at the Bindings (Curtis). 



D. GRANULATA Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 327, I have not met 

 with. It was found in Perak by Dr. King's collectors. 



D. BRACHYSTACHYS Hook.fil. l.c. 328. A tall but little-branched 

 tree with habit of /). aurantiaca Wall., but with the leaves narrow, 

 lorate, acuminate, coriaceous, strongly keeled, over 3 ft. in length 



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