Dracmna.'] clvi. LlLiACBiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 331 



15. JD. petlolata, Sook. f.-, leaves 10-14 by 4 in. elliptic oaudate- 

 acuminate ecostate suddenly narrowed into a slender petiole 3-4^ in., 

 panicle long-peduncled narrow, branches slender erect, bracteolea longer 

 than the short pedicels, flowers | in., lobes as long as the tube, fruit 

 pisiform, pericarp verjr thin wrinkled when dry. D. spioata, var. anran- 

 tiaca, in part, Baker in Trim. Joum. Bot. 1873, 263 ; in Journ. Linn. 8oc. 

 xiv. 632. 



Uf C£B Assam ; near Kujoo, and at the Brama Eboond, Griffith. 

 Apparently a very distinct species from the broad very long-petioled leaves and 

 long-peduncled panicles, 



DOUBTEtTL AND IMPBBPEOTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



D. .Taceiana, Wall. Cat. 5145 A, B. (D. spicata, var. aurantiaca. Baker in 

 Trim. Journ. Bot. 1873, 263 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 532.) A very robust plant, 

 from Penang, like a large D. spicata, the tall raceme having short basal branches. 

 I find no specimen of his 5145 C (Penang, Porter) in Wallich's Herbarium. 



D. LiNtAElPOLiA, Kurz For. ii. 542, in Clavis of species, but not taken up in 

 the following descriptions. It has the habit of P. angustiJoUa, but has narrower 

 leaves and the lobes of the fruit as large as a cherry or small plum. A Javanese 

 species in Herb. Kew responds to this description. 



D. CaNTLbyi, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1881, 326. Singapore, Gantlet/. There is 

 little in the description of this plant, of which a specimen flowered at Kew, to dis- 

 tinguish it from D. marmorata {aurantiaca). Unfortunately flowers were not 

 preserved for the Herbarium. The live plant at Kew has now a stem 4 in. long, 

 with lanceolate leaves 15 by 4i in., suddenly narrowed into a petiole 1-14 in- 

 broad, 



12. CORDYXiINE, Commers. 



Characters of Bracsena, but ovarian cells 4^16-ovnled, testa black 

 shining, and embryo nearly as long as the albumen. — Species about 10, 

 Malayan, Australasian, Pacific, and one Brazilian. 



1. C. terxuinalis, Kunth JSnum. v. 25 ; shruhby, erect, leaves 12-36 

 by 2-5 in. oblong-lanceolate broadly petioled, flowers white or purplish 

 subspicate or racemed on the branches of a large erect simply branched 

 panicle, -perianth J in. cleft to the sv?ollen base, segments recurved. 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 546 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 539. 



Tbopicai. India, from Bengal and Assam eastward and southward to 

 Malacca. — Distbib. Eastwards to the Paciflo Islds. 



An erect, glabrous shrub, 8-10 ft., stemj as thick as the finger or wrist. 

 Leaves distichous, green or purplish, acuminate at both ends ; petiole complicate, 

 base dilated and amplexioaul. Fanicle 1-2 ft. high ; lower bracts linear-lanceolate ; 

 bracteoles small, 3-nate j flowers 4 in. long, subsessile, or very shortly pedicelled, 

 white or purplish. Berry i in. diam., usually 1-seeded.— Kurz (for Fl. 1. e.) makes 

 two varieties in Burma ; terminalis proper with larger subsessile flowers, which is 

 only cultivated ; and Jerrea, with smaller flowers, pedicels shorter or slightly 

 longer than the bracteoles. Baker (in Journ. Linn. Soc, 1. c.) has the following 

 varieties : — 



Var. 1 ferrea; leaves narrower more oblanceolate dull purple or variegated 

 2-2i in. broad, petioles shorter, flowers usually smaller tinged with red. D. ferrea, 

 Linn Syst. 275 ; Boxl. Fl. Ind. ii. 156 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2053. D. terminalis, Jacq. 

 Ic. t. 448 ; Boxb. 1. u. ; Eedoute Lil. t. 91 ; Lodd. Bot. Oat. t. 1224. Cordyline 

 Jacquininii, Kunth I. e. 23. 



Var. 2. Sieberi ; leaves oblanceolate 12-18 by 2-3 in., racemes 1 in. broad, 

 pedicels longer, flowers larger, Oordyline Sieberi, Kunth Enum. v. 23.— Malacca, 

 Griffith, Maingay. 



