330 CLVI. LILIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Dracana. 



Panicle large or small, rachis and branches slender. 



12. 3>. elliptica, Thurib. Diss. Sot. Dracsen. 6 ; stem slender decum- 

 bent or ascending, leaves 4-8 by 1^-2^ in. scattered or crowded acuminate 

 or caudate narrowed into a short rather slender petiole costate at the base, 

 flowers solitary or 2-4-nate in decurved lax-fld. panicles, pedicels |-i in. 

 slender, perianth 6-lobed to the middle, lobes erect, berries pisiform i in. 

 diam., or 2-3-lobed. Kunth Enum. v. 14 ; Baker in Trim.Journ. Sot. 1873, 

 263; in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 532; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 544. D. Wallichii, 

 Kunthlc.ll. D. terniflora, Wall. Cat. 5147 A.; Kunth 1. c. 11. D. 

 maculata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 157. D. elliptica, var. maculata, Hook. Ifirt. 

 Mag. t. 4787 (excl. some syns.}. D. atro-purpurea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 160 ; 

 Kunth Enum. v. 12 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 533. D. elliptica, 

 rar. atropurpurea. Kurz 1. c. 544. D. javanica, Kunth Enum. v. 14; Regel 

 Revis. Draccen. 45. D. maculata, Planch. 1. c. t. 569. Cordyline terni- 

 flora, Planch, in Fl. des Serres, vi. 136. 



SILHET, the KHASIA HILLS, Wallich y &c , BURMA, the ANDAMAN and NICOBAK 

 ISLANDS, Kurz. DISTRIB. Java. 



Stems low, 1-2 ft., as thick as a goose-quill, simple or branched, ascending, root- 

 ing at the base. Leaves thickly coriaceous, green or blotched with white or black 

 or all purple. Panicle often lying flat on the uppermost leaves, subsessile, branches 

 slender curved ; bracteoles ovate, scarious. Flower f in. long, slender, 6-cleft to 

 the middle, white purple or greenish ; filament white. Berries orange red. The 

 short rather slender petioles of this and the following species are very characteristic, 

 of upper leaves at any rate ; but I collected in the Khasia the lower purple 

 leaves of what I supposed was the same species 12-14 by 2-3 in., oblanceolate, nar- 

 rowed into a long broad petiole. There may be more than one species under this 

 name. Roxburgh's drawing of atropurpurea represents the panicle as erect. 



13. D. gracilis, Wall. Cat. 5150; slender, much branched, leaves 

 scattered 3-7 by f-li in., elliptic-lanceolate acuminate narrowed into a 

 very short narrow petiole, panicle short very slender few and sparse-fld. 

 decurved, flowers f in. subsolitary pedicels slender, bracts scariorfs, berries 

 pisiform. D. atropurpurea, var. gracilis, Baker in Trim. Journ. Sot. (1873) 

 264 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 534. 



PENANG, Porter-, alt. 2500 ft., Curtis. PERAK, alt. 35CO-4500 ft., Wray, 

 King's Collector. MALACCA, Mount Ophir, Hullett. DISTRIB. Siam, Sumatra, 

 Borneo. 



Perhaps, as Baker supposed, a small state of D. elliptic-ay the petiolation of the 

 leaves being of the same character ; if so, it is a mountain form of that plant. 



14. D. Helferiana, Wall, ex Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Seng. xlii. (1873) 

 ii. 248 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 545 ; a small decumbent shrub, leaves 12-18 by 

 1J-2 in. oblanceolate acuminate narrowed into a longer or shorter petiole 

 costate, panicle large loosely branched lax-fld., brcteoles minute, flowers 

 1 in. white or greenish, pedicels slender, perianth 6-cleft nearly to the base, 

 segments erect, berries pisiform or 3-lobed. D. G-riffithii, Regel Revis. 

 Dracsen. 47- D. terniflora, Wall. Cat. 5147 B, in part. D. atro-purpurea, 

 var. Griffithii, BaJctr in Trim. Journ. Sot. (1873) 264 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xiv. 533. 



BURMA ; Moulmeiu and Attran, Wallich Pegu, Scott j Mergui, Griffith (Kew 

 Distrib. 5869, 5877). 



Habit of i>. elliptica, but according to Kurz only 1-2 ft. high, and differing in 

 the broad petioles, much larger panicle, minute bracteoles and the perianth-cleft 

 nearly to the base. 



