330 CLVi. LiLiAOE^. (J. D. Hooker.) l^DraecBna. 



§§ Panicle la/rge or small, racMs and branches slender. 



12. D. elliptlca, Thunh. Diss. Bot. Bracsen. 6 ; stem slender decum- 

 bent or ascending, leaves 4-8 by 1^2^ in. scattered or crowded acuminate 

 or caudate narrowed iato a short rather slender petiole costate at the base, 

 flowers solitary or 2-4-nate in decurved lax-fld. panicles, pedicels 5— J in. 

 slender, perianth 6-lobed to the middle, lobes erect, berries pisiform i in. 

 diam., or 2-3-lobed. Kunth Enum. v. 14 ; Baker in Trim.Jburn. Bot. 1873, 

 263 ; in Journ. Linn. 80c. xiv. 532 ; Eurz For. Fl. ii. 644. D . Wallichii, 

 Kunth I. c. 11. D. teroiflora. Wall. Cat. 5147 A. ; Kunth I. c. 11. D. 

 maoulata, Soxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 157. D. elliptica, var. macnlata. Hook. Bot. 

 Mag. t. 4787 (excl. some syns.). D. atro-purpurea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 160 ; 

 Kunth Enwm. v. 12 ; Baher in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 533. D. elliptica, 

 va/r. atropurpurea. Kurz I. v. 544. D. javanica, Kunth Enum. v. 14 ; Kegel 

 Bievis. Draccen. 45. D. maculata, Planch. I. c. t. 569. Cordyline terni- 

 flora. Planch, in Fl. des Serres, vi. 136. 



SiLHET, the Khasia Hills, Wallich, &c , Bubma, the Andaman and Nicobae 

 Islands, Kun. — Distbib. Java. 



Stems low, 1-2 ft., as thick as a goose-quill, simple or branched, ascending, root- 

 ing at the base. Leaees thickly coriaceous, green or blotched with white or black 

 or all purple. Panicle often lying flat onthe uppermost leaves, subsessile, branches 

 slender curved; bracteoles ovate, scarious. Flower f in. long, slender, 6-cleft to 

 the middle, white purple or greenish ; filament white. Berries orange red. — The 

 short rather slender petioles of this and the following species are very characteristic, 

 of upper leaves at any rate ; but I collected in the Khasia the lower purple 

 leaves of what I supposed was the same species 12-14 by 2-3 in., oblanceolate, nar- 

 rowed into a long broad petiole. — There may be more than one species under this 

 name. Roxburgh's drawing of atropurpurea represents the panicle as erect. 



13. D. gracilis, Wall. Gat. 5150; slender, much branched, leaves 

 scattered 3-7 by |-li in., elliptic-lanceolate acuminate narrowed into a 

 very short narrow petiole, panicle short very slender few and sparse-fld. 

 decurved, flowers | in. subsolitary pedicels slender, bracts scarious, berries 

 pisiform. D. atropurpurea, var. gracilis. Baker in Trim. Journ. Bot. (1873) 

 264 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 534. 



Pbnang, Porter; alt. 2500 ft., Curtis. Peeak, alt. 35CO-4500 ft., Wray, 

 King's Golleetor. Malacca, Mount Ophir, Hullett. — Disteib. Siam, Sumatra, 

 Borneo. 



Perhaps, as Baker supposed, a small state of D. elliptica, the petiolation of the 

 leaves being of the same character ; if so, it is a mbuutain form of that plant, 



14. D. Kelferiana, Wall, ex Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xUi. (1873) 

 ii. 248 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 545 ; a small decumbent shrub, leaves 12-18 by 

 li-2 in. oblanceolate acuminate narrowed into a longer or shorter petiole 

 costate, panicle large loosely branched lax-fld., brcteoles minute, flowers 

 1 in. white or greenish, pedicels slender, perianth 6-cleft nearly to the base, 

 segments erect, berries pisiform or 3-lobed. D. GrriflBthii, Regel Bevis. 

 Bracsen. 47. D. ternifiora. Wall. Gat. 6147 B, in part. D. atro-purpurea, 

 var. Griffithii, Baker in Trim. Journ. Bot. (1873) 264 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xiv. 533. 



BUEMA ; Moulmein and Attran, Wallich ; Pegu, Scott ; Mergui, Griffith (Kevo 

 Bistnb. 5869, 5877). 



Habit of i). elliptica, but according to Kurz only 1-2 ft. high, and diflfering in 

 the broad petioles, much larger panicle, minute bracteoles and the perianth-cleft 

 nearly to the base. 



