264 SYNOPSIS OF EAST INDIAN DRACENA AND CORDYLINE. 
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Walker! Gardner, 893! Thwaites, 2293! This appears to be the 
only wild Ceylonese form, and can scarcely be regarded as more than 
an insular variety of spicata. 
6. D. ecuprica, Thunb. in Dalm. Diss., p.3?; Kunth Enum. v., 
14?; Hook. Bot. Mag., t. 4787, excl. syn.—D. javanica, Kunth 
En v., 12; Regel Revis., p. 45—Cordyline Sieboldii, Planch. Fl. 
i 132. 
Enum. v., 11 Roxb. Branchlets not more than 2 lines thick 
Internodes near thei it #—4 inch long, not hidden y the 
petioles. Blade oblong-lanceolate, 5—6 inches lon ,» 14—2 inches 
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spicata ; the midrib only visible towards the base on the lower side ; 
the fine immersed veins oblique. Flowers in a sessile or short-stalked 
deltoid panicle seldom more than half-a-foot long, with ascending or 
spreading straight or curved branches. Flowers 1—8 from the 
distant nodes. Bracts minute, deltoid. Pedicels 2—3 lines, jointed 
at the middle. Perianth 8—9 ]j 
the divisions about equalling the tube, the stigma finally exserted, 
Berry globose, orange-red, usually one-lobed, about half-an-inch thick. 
Sillet-—Wallich, 5147A!; South Andaman—Kurz!; Java and 
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only ys its leaves having large irregular pale blotches on a green 
groundwork. ere are two good figures, as just cited, and a 
drawing in the Roxburghian collection, 
ar. ATROPURPUREA.—D, atropurpurea, Roxb. Ind. ii., 160; 
Kunth Enum. v., 13. Leaves just the 
Grirrirau— D, Grifithir, Regel Revis., p. 47—D. terniflora, 
-» 5147B. Leaves the same shape as in the last, but 
smaller (5—6 inches long by 12—15 lines broad), and green, not 
th purple, the branches. more slender, the branches of the 
preading.— Khasia—Griffith, 5869!; Amherst 
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