DraccBnaJ] CLVI. LILIACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 331 



15. D. petiolata, Hook. f. ; leaves 10-14 by 4 in. elliptic caudate- 

 acuminate ecostate suddenly narrowed into a slender petiole 3-4^ in., 

 panicle long-peduncled narrow, branches slender erect, -bracteoles longer 

 than the short pedicels, flowers f in., lobes as long as the tube, fruit 

 pisiform, pericarp very thin wrinkled when dry. D. spicata, var. auran- 

 tiaca, in part, Baker in Trim. Journ. Bot. 1873, 263 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xiv. 532. 



UPPER ASSAM; near Kujoo, and at the Brama Khoond, Griffith. 



Apparently a very distinct species from the broad very long-petioled leaves and 

 long-peduncled panicles. 



DOUBTFUL AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



D. .TACKIANA, Wall. Cat. 5145 A, B. (D. spicata, var. aurantiaca, JBaker in 

 Trim. Journ. Bot. 1873, 263 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 532.) A very robust plant, 

 from Penang, like a large D. spicata, the tall raceme having short basal branches. 

 I find no specimen of his 5145 C (Penang, Porter) in Wtillich's Herbarium. 



D. LINKARIFOLIA, Kurz For. ii. 542, in Clavis of species, but not taken up in 

 the following descriptions. It has the habit of P. angustifolia, but has narrower 

 leaves and the lobes of the fruit as large as a cherry or small plum. A Javanese 

 species in Herb. Kew responds to this description. 



D. CANTLEYI, Baker in Journ. Sot. 1881, 326. Singapore, Cantley. There is 

 little in the description of this plant, of which a specimen flowered at Kew, to dis- 

 tinguish it from D. marmorata (aurantiaca). Unfortunately flowers were, not 

 preserved for the Herbarium. The live plant at Kew has now a stem 4 in. long, 

 with lanceolate leaves 15 by 4| in., suddenly narrowed into a petiole 1-1 l > 

 broad. 



12. CORDYLINE, Commers. 



Characters of Dracaena, but ovarian cells 4-16-ovnled, testa black 

 shining, and embryo nearly as long as the albumen. Species about 10, 

 Malayan, Australasian, Pacific, and one Brazilian. 



1. C. terminalis, Kunih Enum. v. 25 ; shrubby, erect, leaves 12-36 

 by 2-5 in. oblong-lanceolate broadly petioled, flowers white or purplish 

 subspicate or racemed on the branches of a large erect simply branched 

 panicle, perianth \ in. cleft to the swollen base, segments recurved. 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 546 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 539.' 



TROPICAL INDIA, from BENGAL and ASSAM eastward and southward to 

 MALACCA. DISTRIB. Eastwards to the Pacific Islds. 



An erect, glabrous shrub, 8-10 ft., sterna as thick as the finger or wrist. 

 Leaves distichous, green or purplish, acuminate at both ends ; petiole complicate, 

 base dilated and amplexicaul. Panicle 12 ft. high ; lower bracts linear -lanceolate ; 

 bracteoles small, 3-nate ; flowers in. long, subsessile, or very shortly pedicelled, 

 white or purplish. Berry % in. diam., usually 1-seeded. Kurz (for Fl. 1. c.) makes 

 .two varieties in Burma ; terminalis proper with larger subscssile flowers, which is 

 only cultivated ; and ferrea, with smaller flowers, pedicels shorter or slightly 

 longer than the bracteoles. Baker (in Journ. Linn. Soc. 1. c.) has the following 

 varieties : 



Var. 1, ferrea; leaves narrower more obianceolate dull purple or variegated 

 2-2 in. broad, petioles shorter, flowers usually smaller tinged with red. D. ferrea, 

 Linn. Syst. 275 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 156; Bot. Mag. t. 2053. D. terminalis, Jacq. 

 Ic. t. 448 ; Eoxl. 1. c. ; Eedoute Lil. t. 91 ; Lodd. Sot. Gat. t. 1224. Cordyline 

 Jacquininii, Kunih I. c. 23. 



Var. 2. Sieberi ; leaves obianceolate 12-18 by 2-3 in., racemes 1 in. broad, 

 pedicels longer, flowers larger. Cordyline Sieberi, Kunth Enum. v. 23. Malacca, 

 Griffith, Maingay. 



