Dracaena.} LILIACEZ. 545 
5. D. Helferiana, Kz.—An evergreen, small, decumbent, simple 
or slightly branched glabrous shrub 1-2 ft. high, the stems as thick 
as a goose-quill or thicker, rooting towards the base; leaves 
approximate, obversely lanceolate-oblong, sessile with a dilated base 
or tapering ina longer or shorter, broad, leafy, sheathing petiole, 
acute or shortly acuminate, 1-14 ft. long by 14-2 in. broad, slightly 
waved, thin-coriaceous, the midrib almost evanescent towards the 
apex, the lateral nerves thin but prominent ; flowers white, with a 
greenish tube an inch long, on slender pedicels jointed towards the 
base, by twos or threes, all secund and forming a divaricate ample 
glabrous panicle at the end of the stems ; bracts linear-lanceolate, 
those of the lower branchings up to an inch long, deciduous ; 
bractlets ovate-lanceolate, minute ; perianth inflated at the base and 
6-cleft to near the base, but the linear blunt lobes erect and spread- 
ing only at their tips ; filaments white ; berries 1-3-lobed, the lobes 
almost globular, the size of a pea, orange-red and glossy, 1-seeded. 
Haz.—Frequent in the tropical forests from Pegu and Martaban down to 
Tenasserim.—F. Feb.-Apr. ; Fr. the next year.—s.—SS.—Metam. SiS. 
6. D. ternifolia, Roxb.—An evergreen, low, decumbent, simple 
or slightly branched:shrub 1-3 ft. high, all parts glabrous, the stems 
as thick as a goose-quill or thicker, rooting at the base ; leaves 
rather crowded, lanceolate to obversely lanceolate, narrowed in a 
shorter or longer (1-3 in. long) petiole with a widened half-stem- 
clasping base, 4-1 ft. long by 1-2 in. broad, acute or shortly acumi- 
nate, thin-coriaceous, the midrib evanescent towards the apex, _the 
lateral nerves thin but prominent; flowers white, about an inch 
long, on very short jointed pedicels, usually by 3 or 2 together and 
arranged in an almost simple raceme with or without a few short 
additional racemes or collected in a contracted glabrous panicle at 
the end of the branches ; bracts linear-lanceolate, persistent, those of 
the lower branchings about 4 in. long ; bractlets conspicuous, ovate, 
acute, scarious, about 2 lin. long; perianth 6-lobed to the middle, 
twisted after flowering, the linear’ blunt lobes reflexed ; filaments 
white ; berries usually 1-lobed with the 2 other lobes rudimentary, 
globular, the size of a large pea, orange-red and glossy, ]-seeded. 
Has.—Ava, Kakhyen hills.— Fl. March-Apr- 
7. D. spicata, Roxb—An evergreen tree (L0—154+5—10+4 
=I 4), fivkedly branched, all parts glabrous ; leaves erowded at the 
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