SYNOPSIS OF EAST INDIAN DRACHENA AND CORDYLINE. 265 
slender, not more than 4 inch thick. Leaves oblanceolate, green, 
narrowed t tothe base, 3—4 inches long, 3—3 inch b broad at the middle. 
—Penang—Porter!, ‘A small plant from the hills.” 
T cannot cobb any safe ground for sleie D. reflexa and 
D. Rumphii, both of which are admitted by Regel, amongst East 
Indian species. The specimens of the eee distributed by 
Wallich are from the Calcutta garden, and the garden plant named 
by Sir W. Hooker is evidently quite distinct from D. angustifolia, 
and nhs likely, like its near ally D. latifolia of Regel, South 
Africa 
pe se pe Commer. 
Flowers placed o n the axis eu each pga by an 
involuere of three binetastal “of which the upper are more or less 
nnate. Cells of the ovary multiovulate. "Sty spiousrndeke at the 
igmatose apex. 
C. ee Kunth Enum. v., 25—Dracena terminalis, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii., 157, non Wt. Icones, - 2054—D. ferrea, 
W D 
] : —D. Jackiana, Wall 145, ex parte. 
Floriferous branches }—1 ine ck. Safed placed upon them 
t— t. Petioles half-a-foot long, erecto-patent, } inch 
in texture, green in the ical form, 15—18 inches long, 
; : as 
panicle, the lower branches subtended by reduced leaves 4—6 
inches long, spreading at a right angle from the axis, and often again 
branched. Separate racemes reaching half-a-foot long, not very dense, 
under an inch broad when expanded, the flowers always solitary, 
subtended by an involucre of three scariose 2 esate deltoid brac- 
on about a line long, of which the two upper are more or less 
ated a’ 
and Singapore—Wallich! Walker, 286 ! saa cultivated i in the Botanic 
Song 
Var. 1. Escucnorzrana— Cordyline Eschscholziana, Mart. in Schult. 
sip vii, $47— 0. oe Otto and ogi Kunth Enum. 
28—Dracena terminalis, Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 1749. Differs from 
the type only by its larger leaves, ‘which are ors inches broad above 
the middle.—Griffith, 5881! from the Calcutta garden. A native of 
Polynesia. 
on 2. nEa—Dracana Sees Willd. Roxb. Fl. hae ii., 
; Wall. Cat., 5140A, C, D. terminalis, Jacq. Ic., t. 448— 
pea Jacquin Kunth AaB v., 23 Petiole shorter. Blade of 
the leaf not more than 2—24 inches broad above the middle, oe a 
often more or ny pe saturated with dark crimson, more acute and m 
