Dracaena. | LILIACER. 543 
x X Leaves narrowed in a complicate shorter or longer 
petiole. 
O Perianth-lobes erect-spreading, conniving in a tube.— 
Small shrubs. 
Flowers sparse ; bractlets 1 lin. long or longer ‘ 2 . D, elliptica, 
Flowers 1-sided ; bractlets minute, broad and scarious 2 . D. Helferiana, 
ianth-lobes recurved from the middle,—Trees. 
Panicle rather contracted; corolla twisted ; bracts scarious. . D. ternifolia. 
Flowers in simple terminal racemes; leaves nar- 
rowed in a leafy petiole. 
Peduncle shorter than the leaves, bracted-scaly; pedicels short ; 
corolla twisted, the tube long, the lobes short, spreading; tree. D. spicata. 
Peduncle short or almost none, the raceme about as long as the 
petiole ; pedicels very short ; corolla not twisted, the lobes not 
recurved ; small shrub . : . : : E . D. pachyphylla, 
1. D. angustifolia, Roxb.—Kwam-lin-nek.—An evergreen tree 
(20—30+5—1242—8), forkedly branched, all parts glabrous, 
flowering already while still shrubby ; leaves crowded at the end of 
the branches, elongate-linear, 1-2 ft. long by 1-14 in. broad, long- 
acuminate, thick-membranous, waved, graduall narrowed and half- 
stem-clasping with a broad base, the midrib blunt and prominent 
below, the lateral nerves faint, immersed ; flowers middling-sized, 
white, or with purplish tips, nearly an inch long, on longer or 
shorter (1-4 lin. long) pedicels jomted at the middle, by 5-3 or 
fewer in bracteoled clusters, remotely racemose and forming a lax 
but stiff, erect, or ascending, glabrous terminal panicle ; bracts of the 
branchings linear-lanceolate, rather small; bractlets ovate, acute, 
1-2 lin. long; perianth 6-lobed down to its middle, with the linear 
lobes reflexed ; filaments white ; berries 1-3-lobed, the lobes globular, 
the size of a pea, orange-coloured, glossy, 1-seeded. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical coast forests of South Andaman.—F. 
Apr.-May ; Fr. Sept.-Oct.—s. 
2. D. ensifolia, Wall.—An evergreen simple or slightly branched 
shrub up to 8-10 ft. high, the stems as thick as the finger, all parts 
glabrous ; leaves crowded at the apex of the branches, elongate- 
linear, long-acuminate, slightly tapering at the base and broadly 
cymbiform-lanceolate, long-acuminate ; perianth about 2 in. long, 
divided to } into 6 linear-oblong reflexed lobes; filaments orange- 
