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var. B. gracilis. Leaves narrow lanceolate 5 inches long li across, 

 panicle and flowers smaller. This is a mountain form connecting the 

 low and broad leaved one with the next. D. gracilis, Wall. Cat. 5150, 

 Hook. fil. l.c.c. D. atropurpurca var. gracilis, Bak, Trim. Journ. Bot. 

 1873, 264, Journ. Linn. Soc. XIV. 531. 



Malacca : Mount Ophir, at 4000 feet elevation (Ridley 5150): 

 Perak : Gunong Hijau, Larut Hills, at 5000 feet (Ridley 5035) ; Penang ; 

 West Hill (Curtis 1186) ; Kedah ; Gunong Jerai (Ridley). 



var. C. montana. Stem scandent much branched. Leaves very 

 narrow acuminate lanceolate 4 inches long i to f inch wide. Panicles 

 short 2 inches long with few branches often borne laterally on the old 

 wood. Bracts ovate large in proportion to the flower. Flowers 

 purple. 



Perak : Larut Hills, Gunong Hijau (Ridley, King's Collector 635,0) 

 at 5500 feet elevation. 



Though these three forms are very different in appearance I have 

 little doubt that they are specifically identical, and are merely local 

 varieties, as they certainly pass into each other in Perak. Some of the 

 synonyms given for D. elliptica in the Flora of British India, may be- 

 long to distinct plants, but if not the species occurs in Silhet and Kha- 

 sia, Burma, Andamans, and Nicobars, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. 



D. elliptica var. viaculata, Bot. Mag. 4787, is certainly very dis- 

 tinct from any form I have seen both in its short suberect panicle and 

 short thick flowers. 



Excluded Species. 



D. pachijphylla, Kurz. Flor. For. II. 546, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 VI. 329. A native of the Andaman Islands. The Malay peninsula 

 plants referred to it by Hooker are apparently both D. Jackiana, Wall. 



Coedyline teeminalis, Kunth. Enum. V. 25. the Dracaena of 

 Gardens is not a native of the Peninsula, nor though it is often cultivat- 

 ed does it ever seem to establish itself even as an alien. The speci- 

 mens of var. Sieberi, quoted from " Malacca Griffith and Maingay " 

 must have been from a garden. The plant is known as " Andong " by 

 the Malays. 



§ 7. Smilaceae. 



9. Smilax, Linn. 



Climbing rarely erect shrubs, often thorny. Leaves alternate rarely 

 opposite, ovate or lanceolate petiolate, 3 to 5 nerved reticulate, petiole 

 often bearing two tendrils near the base. Flowers dioecious small 

 umbelled green or yellow. Perianth segments 6 free. Stamens in 

 male flowers 6 or more from the base of the perianth, free filaments 

 filiform. Anthers oblong staminodes in female flower 3 or 6. Style 



