Gonioscypha.'] clvi. LinACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 327 



The HiMAiATA and Khasia Hills ; possibly indigenous ; cultivated throughout 

 India.— DisTBiB. S. Europe, the Caucasus and N. Asia to Japan. 



Leaves 12-24 by 1-1^ in., erecto-patent, acute, subglaucous beneath. Scape 

 2-3 ft., panicle 6-12-fld. ; pedicels short ; bracts small, membranous. Flowers 

 nodorous, l-2in. diam.; tube yellow-red ; outer segments orange yellow, oblong 

 acute, inner very much broader. 



Var. amgustifoUa, Baker 1. c. ; much smaller, leaves 12-18 by l-i in., perianth- 

 segments narrower more acute. Boiss. I. c. H. longituba, Miquel Ann. Mus 

 Lugd. Bat. iii. 152, 



11. DRACSNA, Linn. 

 Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate or crowded and subterminal, 

 sessile or petioled, costate or not and many-nerved. Flowers in terminal 

 racemes panicles or heads ; bracts small. Perianth tnbular, campanulate 

 or funnel-shaped, 6-cleft, lobes narrow. Stamens 6, inserted at the base of 

 the tube, filaments filiform or flattened; anthers versatile. Ovary 3- 

 celled ; style filiform, stigma capitate ; ovules 1, erect in each cell. Berry 

 globose didymous or 3-lobed. Seeds globose or angled, testa thickish, 

 albumen horny ; embryo small.— Species about 35, in warm regions of the 

 Old World. ^ 



This genus wants a thorough revision on living plants. The following attempt 

 to delimit the Indian species has been a work of much labour and the result is 

 provisional only. 



* Leaves linear or ensiform, sessile. 



1. D. ang'ustifolia, Boorh. Fl. Ind. ii. 155 ; stem erect, leaves 8-20 

 by |-1 in. costate waved, panicle very large decurved spreading, flowers 

 \-\ in., pedicels ^^ in., fruit J-f in. diam. fleshy. Wall. Oat. 5141 ; 

 Kunth Emwrn. v. 4 ; Segel Sevis. T>rac. 36 ; Baker in Trim. Journ. Bot. 

 1873, 262; in Journ. Limn. Soc. xiv. 526; Xurz For. Fl. ii. 643. D. 

 ensifolia, Wall. Cat. 5143; Kunth Enum. 5; Kurz I. c. Terminalia 

 angustifolia, Sumph. Amh. iv. t. 35. Sanseviera fruticosa, Blume Fnum. 

 i. 11. 



SiLHET, Wallich, &c. Khasia and Naq^a Hills, common, Burma, Anda- 

 man Islands, Kurz. — Distkib. Malaya, Australia. 



Stem 8-10 ft., as thick as a stoat cane, simple or forked. Leaves sessile by a 

 broad sheathing base, spreading and recurved. Flowers white or tipped with pink. 

 Fruit orange-cold. — Kurz distinguishes his ensifolia by the panicle nodding 

 longer than the leaves, bracts acute almost wholly scarious, filaments orange, 

 pedicels ^ in. ; and angustifoUa by the erect stiff panicle shorter than the leaves, 

 bracts with a scarious bolder, filaments white. 



2. D. graminifolia, Wall. Cat. 5149; leaves 8-12 by i-^ in. 

 obscurely costate, raceme erect simple or branched at the base quite smooth ; 

 flowers j in. long. D. Pinlaysoni, Baker in Trim. Journ. Bot. 1873, 261; 

 in Jowrn. Linn. Soc. xiv. 525. 



Stbaits of Malacca, Binding Island, Finlayson. — Disteib. Borneo ?. 

 Wallich's specimens are very insufficient, and I hesitate to regard the Bornean 

 plant, from which Baker's description is in part taken, as specifically the same. 



3. 3>. granulata^ Hook. f. ; arboreous, leaves 6-10 by \ in. sessile, 

 panicle erect pyramidal, rachis and branches finely granulate when dry, 

 fruit 5-l| in. diam. shortly pedioelled fleshy. 



Malay Peninsula ; Perak, King's Collector. 

 Stem 50-60 ft. by 18-20 in. diam. 



