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nate, falcate striate, glaucous beneath 9 inches long f inch 

 wide. Scape 4 inches long base nude. Flowers small 

 white. Bracts 2, bases broad ovate, tips linear, outer 

 one \ inch long. Pedicel longer. Sepals and petals 

 ovate subacute J inch long. Stamens connivent filaments 

 very short, anthers lanceolate. Style terete longer. 



Perak at Padang Rengas (W. Fox) Lankawi on Gu- 

 nong Raya (Curtis 2643). The Ophiopogons are abundant 

 in the mountainous regions of North Iudia and China, but 

 get very scanty further south, in fact this is the only one 

 from the Peninsula except the little known and doubtful 

 0. prolifera from Penang. Though perhaps as near the 

 common and variable 0. intermedins of India, it is very 

 distinct in its tall stout stem, broad leaves and ovate petals 

 and sepals. 

 Twpistra violacea, n. sp. Terrestrial stem short and stout, leaves 

 broadly oblong oblanceolate acute narrowed gradually 

 to the base, 3 feet long, 3 inches wide, dark green stiff, 

 spike very dense about 8 inches high. Flowers sessile 

 J inch across, tube hemispheric violet, lobes oblong re- 

 curved darker. Anthers 6 sessile elliptic. Style cylindric 

 white, spotted with violet. Stigma club-shaped rounded 

 obscurely three-lobed. 



Perak, Bujong Malacca; Penang, Highlands (Curtis). 



This Tupistra differs from the other Peninsular 

 species, T.grandis, Ridl.,inits smaller lighter colored flow- 

 ers and the rounded club-shaped stigma which is flat and 

 circular in T. grandis. Though not perhaps as striking as 

 that species it is a pretty plant. 

 Dracaena conferta, n*sp. Stem 4 to 10 feet tall, little or not 

 branched. Leaves narrow linear acuminate 24 to 27 

 inches long § inch wide, base broadly sheathing, midrib 

 very strong at the base, thinning upwards and disappear- 

 ing before the tip. Raceme 2 feet long, erect, simple or 

 occasionally branched, the base with numerous reduced 

 leaves with broad bases, and acuminate upwards, peduncle 

 rather stout with a few small sheathing leaves, inflorescence 

 long dense. Flowers white, three or four in a tuft, with 

 very short pedicels, and 2 or 3 ovate acuminate bracts §• 



R. A. Soc, No. 41, 1903. 



