262 SYNOPSIS OF EAST INDIAN DRACENA AND CORDYLINE. 
exserted.—Pulo Dinding, Straits of Malacca— Finlayson ; Boesibonss 
Barber, eee The garden D. stenophylla, K. Koch. (Regel Revis., 
p. 42), of which the native country and flowers are unknown, may 
possibly a form of this with variegated leaves. 
. D. aneustrroria, ‘Bost. Fl. Ind, ii., 155 ; Wall. Cat., 5141.; 
Kunth Enum, v., & Pe a p. 36—D. ensifolia, Wall. Cat., 
5143; Kunth Enum. yv., 5, non Regel Revis., p. 39 (** Gartenflora,”’ t. 
451)—Torminalia ¢ seatia, B ump. Amboin. iv., t. 35—D. fruticosa, 
Regel Revis., p. 37— Cordyline — Hook Bot. Mag., t. 4279, im 
except near the tip; lateral veins very close, immersed, not 
at all oblique. Panicle eon B. sisited. reaching a foot 
or more in length, with few or many spreading or ascending 
branches, a lower sometimes again compound, bracteated by 
ches than half 
ot lo 
nate, the clusters distant on the rachis. Bracts deltoid, scariose, 1—2 
lines. Pedicels 3—4 lines long, jointed above the middle. Perianth 
greenish-white, 8—9 lines long, the divisions about equalling the 
cylindrical tube. Stamens as Orr's as the divisions, the stigma at last 
slightly exerted. Berry from one to ane pulpy deep orange, 
_ each lobe the size of a marrow-fat pea, containing one large round 
horny seed.—East Himalayas (Assam, Khasia and Sillet), a pe 
from the base of the hills to 6000 feet-— Wallich h, 5143! Griffith, 5871! 
Hooker fil. & Thomson! ; Burmah— —Wallich, 5141C! ! McClelland! ; 
Java—Spanoghe LW. Lobb! ; ; North Australia—Damel! Schultz! &e. 
inches. Most likely it will prove to be Thunberg’s laa a, and if so 
that is the oldest name. Most t likely, also, it is the ensifolia briefly 
characterised by Haworth, Synopsis, p. 67. sore s a very good 
ele) plate amongst Roxburgh’s drawing: 
. D. Porr Baker—D. maculata, Wall. ‘Cat., 5148A, non 
aches Flower-bearing freuaken under } inch thick. Leaves 
“ascending, their bases } inch apart, clasping the stem all round, not 
completely hiding the internodes, oblanceolate-ensiform, }—1 foot 
long, 1} inch broad at the middle, narrowed gradually to an acute 
point and downwards to 3—4 lines above the dilated b base, firmer and 
more coriaceous than those of the last; the midrib invisible from above 
and ~ Sime ee seen po the base on obeape lower side; the veins very 
fine, copious, and immersed. Flowers in a lon -stalked simple 
raceme "halfee-foot long, the peduncle bisuteabed with reduced leaves. 
