Dracana.~\ CLVI. LILIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 329 



SILHET, CACHAR, the KHASIA HILLS, 'MUNNIPORE, CHITTAGONG, and the 

 DECCAN PENINSULA, Roxburgh, and ? MALAY PENINSULA. 



According to Roxburgh and Kurz, this is distinguished from D. spicata by size 

 and habit, and the petioled leaves, and according to Kurz, by the perianth 6 -cleft 

 to the middle, that of D. spicata being 6-cleft half-way down. Roxburgh describes 

 the fruit as of the size and appearance of a fine red cherry ; but Kurz as orange red. 

 In both species the perianth becomes twisted in age, and in both the thinly coriaceous 

 leaves may be blotched with white. 



Var. Heyneana; spike or panicle much shorter than the leaves. D. Heyneana, 

 Wall. Cat. 5754. D. terminalis, Wight Ic. t. 2054. Western Ghats, from the 

 Concan southwards, Heyne, &c. 



Var. ? Thwaitesii ; spike or panicle very short, flowers smaller ^ in. long. D. 

 Thwaitesii, Eegel Hevis. Drac. 44 ; Baker II. cc. D. elliptica, Thunb. $ Dallm. 

 Diss. 3 (the Ceylon plant) ; Thwaites Enum. 338. Ceylon, ascending to 4000 ft. 



Var. ? Curtisii ; stem short, leaves 4-6 in. elliptic sessile squarrosely spreading 

 and recurved elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate, raceme much longer than the 

 leaves slender long-peduncled, flowers 1 in. long very slender. Penang, at Polo 

 Boolong, Curtis. 



9. D. pachyphylla, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 546 ; shrubby 1-2 ft., leaves 

 4-6 by lg-2^ in. coriaceous subulate-acuminate costate, lower long-petioled, 

 raceme subsessile very short or elongate, flo.wers very shortly pedicelled, 

 berries pisiform or 3-lobed. 



ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. PERAK, King's Collector. MALACCA, on Mt. Ophir, 

 Hulfett. DISTRIB. Borneo. 



Resembles a dwarf D. spicata. "Stem sometimes as thick as the little finger; 

 leaves often blotched ; flowers f in. long, white, 6-cleft almost to the base ; lobes 

 conniving not recurved except the tips ; tube not twisted ; berries red," Kurz. 



ft Flowers in spreading panicles. 



Panicle large, rachis and branches very stout. 



10. D. aurantiaca, Wall. Gat. 5744; stem very stout, leaves 12-18 

 by 2-4 in. oblanceolate acuminate narrowed into a very broad almost flat 

 petiole, costa broad obscure, panicle 12-18 in., peduncle very short stout, 

 pedicels %-% in., flowers densely clustered fin. D. spicata, var. aurantiaca 

 (in pa rt), Baker in Trim. Journ. Bot. 1873, 263, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xiv. 532. ? D. marmorata, Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 7078. 



SINGAPORE, Wallich, Ccmtley. MALACCA, Maingay (K. d. 1688). 



Apparently arboreous. I doubtfully refer Baker's D. marmorata to Wallich's 

 aurantiaca. Wallich's name may imply that either the flowers or fruit of his plant 

 are orange yellow. The flowers of D. marmorata are white, and the leaves mottled 

 with white. I have seen fruit of neither. 



11. D. IVTaingayi, Hook./.-, stem tall stout, leaves 8-12 by 1-2 in. 

 narrowly elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acnminate costate below the middle, 

 panicle erect peduncled very stout, pedicels J in., flowers 1 in., berries 

 1-1 in. diam. fleshy. D. spicata, var. aurantiaca, in part, Baker in Trim. 

 Journ. Bot. 1873, 263, and Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 263. 



MALACCA; at Pulo Bissom, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 5873), Maingay (K. d. 

 1685). PERAK, on low hills, King's Collector. 



" Tree 30-40 ft. ; stem l-2 ft. diam. ; fruit waxy yellow," King's Collector. 

 "'Fruit scarlet," Griffith. The very narrow long-petioled leaves distinguish this 

 from D. aurantiaca, and the large stout pyramidal panicle and large berries from 

 D. spicata. 



