SYNOPSIS OF EAST INDIAN DRACZNA AND CORDYLINE. 263 
Flowers 2 to as many as 5 together in distant fascicles. Bracts 
minute, deltoid. Pedicels not more than a line long, jointed at the 
middle. Perianth very slender, 8—9 lines long, greenish-white, the 
ans about as long asthe cylindrical tube. Style finally exserted.— 
Penang, ‘‘ A small plant from the hills ’”—Porter in Wall. Herb., No. 
5148A! This may prove a mere variety of spicata, but appears 80 
different i in the leaves that with our present material we do not seem 
m. 
. D. sprcara, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii., 157 ; Kunth Enum. v., p. 10; 
Wall. Cat., 5146; Regel Revis., p. 44— D. Wallichii, Kunth Enum., 
Wad liecds terniflora, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii., 159,non Wall.,5147A, B—D. 
Heyneana, Wall. Cat., 5154—D. terminalia, nee greg rf 2054, non 
Lam Flower-bearing branches. 3—4 lines thick. Bases of the 
on the lower side in the lower half of the leat only; veins ane 
someon distinctly oblique. Flowers in a short-stalked, simple, or 
little compound raceme, which is pia ite close, |4—2 inches broad 
when ASA TE, Flowers often in a cluster. Bract deltoid, 
scariose, those subtending the bake a 1}—2 2 lines long. Pedicels 
2—3 lines, articulated at the middle. Perianth greenish-white, 
lines long, the divisions about as long as the slender cylindrical tube 
‘* Berr ith from one to three distinct round and smooth lobes 
Eastern Himalayas: Sil nena: Cat., 5146A!; Chittagong— 
Roxburgh, Hk. fil “& 34 ; Khasia, 0-3000ft.—Hk. fil. & 
homson ; Assam—Masters ! pe h, 5378!; Poneshie—Anderson ! 
gpaet expedition); Bombay—Dalzell Son more Neilgherries— 
t! G. Thomson!; Andamans— !; Ten —Griffith, 5878!; 
a hs PIaDOs, and Mating -Pentert Griffith, 5876! Maingay, 
1684! Walker 
VaR. AURANTIACA—D, ee Wall. Cat., Ahem bees 
Wall. Cat., 3145, ex parte—D. terniflora, Regel 
More robust, with ‘larger, more coriaceous leaves, the same ee 
the type, reaching 24-3 inches broad in the middle, and a pate 
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: Re el 
Enum a“ 338. General habit a ‘that of spicata.  Petioles 
ascending, nearly or quite hiding the internodes. Blade oblong- 
lanceolate, 6—8 inches long, 1831 lines broad at middle, narrowed 
to a long point a and downwards tos a distant ne 2—3 inches en 
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