328 CLVI. LILIACEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Draccena. 



4. D. brachyphylla, Kurz. For. Flor. ii. 544 ; a low shrub, leaves 

 -1 ft. costate, panicle erect stiff quite smooth, shorter than the leaves, 

 flowers f in., filaments white. D. atropurpurea, var. Kurzii, Baker in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 533. 



ANDAMAN ISLANDS, frequent, Kurz. 



I have seen only very imperfect specimens. Kurz describes the stem as thick 

 as a goose-quill or twice as thick. 



5. D. brachystachys, Hook. f. ; leaves 3 ft. by 2 in. ensiform coria- 

 ceous costa beneath very stout, branches of panicle scaberulous spreading, 

 flowers shortly pediceiled ternately fascicled. 



PENANG; Monisti road, Curtis, 2302. 



Stem 10-12 ft., 2-3 in. diam. Leaves fascicled. Panicle apparently very large 

 with rather distant horizontal strict branches, bracts very small. Flowers in rather 

 remote fascicles ^ in. long white, pedicel -^ in. Described from one leaf and a 

 portion of a panicle. 



** Leaves elliptic-lanceolate or -oblanceolate (very narrowly in D. 

 Porteri). 



t Flowers in spiciform racemes that are simple or branched at the 

 base only. 



6. D. Porteri, BaJcer in Trimen Journ. Sot. 1873, 262 ; in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xiv. 529 ; shrubby, leaves 8-10 by 1-lf in. sessile narrowly lan- 

 ceolate or oblanceolate costate towards the base, raceme shortly peduncled 

 erect, flowers f in. long, pedicels very short, fruit pisiform. D. maculata, 

 Wall. Cat 5748 (not ofRoxb.}. 



PENANG, Porter, King's Collector ; SINGAPORE, Wallich. MALACCA, Griffith 

 (Kew Distrib. 5874), Maingay (E. d. 1687). DISTKIB. Siam. 



Shrub 4-6 ft. (King's Coll.). Apparently very near D. spicata, but with nar- 

 rower leaves. Wallich's 5148 A has spotted leaves; his B from Singapore may be 

 different, it is more slender with a more contracted leaf -base. 



7. D. spicata, Roxl. Fl. Ind. ii. 157 ; arboreous, leaves 6-18 by 

 in. very broadly petioled elliptic or broadly oblanceolate finely 



acuminate, raceme long or short simple or branched at the base, flowers 

 fascicled very shortly pediceiled, fruit pisiform | in. diam., or 3-lobed and 

 f in. fleshy. Kunth Enum. v. 10 ; Wall. 'Cat. 5146 ; Regel Eevis. Drac. 

 44; D. Wallichii, Kunth in Act. Acad. Serol. 1842, 26. 



SILHET, Wallich, CHITTAGONG, Roxburgh, SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. 



I am unable to unravel the synonymy and habitats of this species and D. tqrni- 

 Jlora, which however, according to Koxburgh and Kurz are very different plants. 

 Baker (Journ. Sot. 1873, 263, and Journ. Linn. Sod. xiv. 532) unites them (as D. 

 spicata), together with D. aurantiaca, Wall., and gives its distribution as from the 

 eastern Himalaya to the Nilghiris, Malacca, and the Congo Eiver in Western Africa. 

 Of these the Himalayan (for which Griffith, Wallich, and I are cited), is an error, as 

 none of us collected it there. On the other hand it is probably a Malayan species. 

 Roxburgh describes the flower as numerous, and sessile in fascicles, pale greenish, 

 cleft about half way down, and the ripe berries as deep reddish orange. Kurz says 

 the flowers are in twos or threes, an inch long, greenish yellow and the berries glossy 

 crimson. 



8. D. terniflora, Rood. Fl. Ind. ii. 159; a low decumbent slender 

 shrub, leaves 6-12 in. by 1-2 in. elliptic or oblanceolate finely acuminate, 

 petiole 1-6 in., flowers 2-3-nate pediceiled, fruit pisiform or 3-lobed. Hegel 

 Revis. Drac. 16 ; D. ternifolia (error for terniflora), Kurz For. Fl. ii. 545. 



