764 CXXXII. LILIACE^. 



p. 246 ; DC. Monog. Phan. v. 1 (1878) p. 193 ; Woodr. in Journ, 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 523 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1071 ; Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 3, p. 255. Smilax ovaUfoUa, Eoxb. PI. Ind. 

 V. 3 (1832) p. 794 ; Grah. Cat. p. 219 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 246.— Flowers : 

 Aug. Veen. Ohotvel. 



Konkan: Graham, Balzell ^' Gibson. Deccan: Mahableshwar, common, Cooke I, 

 H. M. Birdwood, Woodrow. S. M. Country : Cborla Ghat, Balzell 4" Gibson. — 

 DiSTRiB. Throughout India. 



3. DRAC^NA, Linn. 



Shrubs (sometimes climbing) or small trees. Leaves alternate or 

 crowded and subterminal, sessile or petiolate, manj^-nerved, costate or 

 not. Plowers in terminal racemes, panicles, heads, or umbels ; bracts 

 small. Perianth corolline, tubular, campauulate or funnel-shaped, 

 6-cleft ; lobes narrow. Stamens 6, adnate to the base of the perianth- 

 tube ; filaments filiform or flattened ; anthers versatile. Ovary 3-celled ; 

 ovules in each cell solitary, erect ; style filiform ; stigma capitate. 

 Pruit a globose, didymous or 3-lobed berry. Seeds globose or angled ; 

 testa thickened ; albumen horny ; embryo small. — Distrib. Warm 

 regions of the Old World ; species about 35. 



1. Dracaena terniflora, lioxb. Fl. Ind. v. 2 (1832) p. 159. A 

 slightly bi-anched glabrous straggling shrub, the stems scarcely more 

 than ^ in. thick, sometimes rooting at the base. Leaves (including the 

 petioles) 8-12 by lf-25 in., somewhat crowded, elliptic-lanceolate, acute 

 or acuminate, thinly coriaceous, narrowed into the petiole ; petioles 

 1-3 in. long, with a widened subamplexicaul base. Plowers white, often 

 2-3 together on the rhachis of a usually simple raceme 4-8 in. long; 

 pedicels ^ in. long, jointed in the middle; bracts scarious, ovate, acute. 

 Perianth | -g in. long, divided to about the middle; lobes linear, obtuse, 

 J^ in. broad. Anthers j^q in. long. Style § in. long. Pruit a red 

 gfobose berry nearly as large as a cherry, smooth, glossy, 1 -seeded. 

 PI. B. I. v. 6, p. 328 ; Kurz, Por. PL v. 2, p. 545 (by error temifolia); 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1S99) p. 523; Prain, Beng. PI. 

 p. 1072. D. spicata, Baker, in Journ. Linn. See. v. 14 (1874) p. 532. 

 D. terminalis, Wight, Icon. v. 6 (1853) p. 26, t. 2054. D. Heyneana, 

 Wall. Cat. (1828) 5151.— Plowers : Dec. 



Uitchie without locality, 14R1, in TTerb. Kevv. ! Konkan : Wari country. Balzell] 

 S. .VI. Cocntry: Castlerocii, Cooke'. Kanaka: Kuuijita-Sirsi Eoad, Woodrow \ — 

 IJiSTRiB. More or less throughout India ; Malay Peninbula. 



Mr. Baker (Journ. Linn. 80c. 1. c.) unites this with B. spicata, Eoxb., under that 

 specific name. Pram (Beng. PL p. 1072) gives characters by which the two species 

 may be distinguished. B. spicata is a small tree with erect stems, broadly and shortly 

 petiolate leaves, (lowers in fa.«cii'les, and an orange-red berry, while B. terniflora is a 

 straggling shrub with ascending weakly branched stems, narrowly and distinctly 

 petiolate leaves, flowers 2-3-nate, and a cherry-red berrv. 



I'he following are often grown in gardens : — 



Draccena elliptica., Thunb. Diss. Bot. Dracsen. (1808) p. 6. An under- 

 shrub, a native of Silhet, the Khasia Hills, Birma, the Andamans, and 

 Java, 2^ ft. high, with terete steuis as thick as a goose-quill, leaves green, 

 or blotched with white or black, or all i)ur[)k', and with greenish-yellow 



