544 LILIACES. [ Dracaena. 
coloured; berries 3-1-lobed, the lobes as large as a pea, globular, 
orange-yellow, glossy, 1-seeded. 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim. 
chartaceous, the midrib evanescent towards the apex, the nerves 
‘faint but prominent; flowers white, 3 in. long, on 2-3 lin. long 
pedicels jointed above the middle, by 2 or solitary, forming short 
and rather stiff racemes collected in a sessile, short, erect, glabrous 
panicle at the end of the branchlets ; bracts linear-lanceolate, subu- 
late-acuminate, the lower ones up to 4 in. long; bractlets ovate, 
acute, membranous, with scarious margins, about a line long ; peri- 
anth 6-cleft to near the base, the lobes conniving in a tube and 
erect-spreading at the apex ; filaments white. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests of the Andamans.—Fl. Apr.-May.— 
s.—SS.—=Metam. SiS. 
4. D, elliptica, Thbg.—An evergreen, low, simple or sparingly 
branched decumbent or ascending shrub 1-2 ft. high, the stems — 
short, rooting, about the thickness of a goose-quill; leaves rather 
remote, those at the apex often crowded or whorled by 3-4, ellipti- 
cal to oblong and linear-lanceolate, 4-6 in. long by 1-24 in. broad, 
acuminate or almost cuspidate, more or less suddenly narrowed m 
a short distinct petiole half-stem-clasping with a broad base, uni- 
mmly green or often whitish or blackish blotched, thin-coriaceous, 
the midrib distinct only at the base, the faint lateral veins slightly 
curved; flowers rather small, white, on slender 3-4 lin. long pedicels 
jointed near the base, by 3 or fewer together, remotely racemose 
and forming a divaricately bracted, glabrous, loose, usually curved 
panicle at the end of the branches; bracts small, scarious, broadly 
oval; bractlets ovate, acute, about a line long, scarious ; perianth 
about 4 in. long, slender, divided to near the middle into 6 linear, 
erect and hardly spreading lobes ; filaments white ; berries 3-1-lobed, 
the lobes almost globular, the size of a small pea, l-seeded, orange- 
red, glossy. 
Var. 1, elliptica proper: flowers by 2 or 3, white ; leaves ellip- 
ical to broadly oblong-lanceolate, the upper ones usually ternary 
or 4-nary. a 
Var. 2, atropurpurea, Bak.: flowers usually solitary, purplish 
outside ; leaves more or less purplish green, longer petioled. 
Haz.—Var. 1: frequent in the tropical forests all over Burma from Chitta- 
Fong, Pegu, and Martaban down to Tenasserim and the Andamans ; var 2; um 
enasserim,—Fl, C.8.—SS.—Metam. SiS. 
