36 NEW MALAYAN PLANTS. 



inch long. Perianth tube J inch long, narrow lobes 

 linear ^ inch long-. Fruit globose as large as a pea. 



Perak, Selama at 300 to 500 feet elevation (King's 

 collection 3149) ; Thaiping Hills near the Tea Gardens. 

 There is also a specimen in Cantley's collections without 

 locality, either from Malacca or Sungei Ujong. This 

 Dracaena is allied to D. Porteri, Bak., but has longer and 

 stiff er leaves with a very dense raceme of flowers. It is 

 known to Malays as "Poko San Juan hutan jantan." 



Dr.penangensis, n.sp. A shrub about 8 or 10 feet tall, with the 

 stem an inch through, leaves when young oblong petioled, 

 adults shorter. Upper leaves lanceolate acuminate 6 to 7 

 inches long, 1 to 1^ inch wide, petiole 1 inch long, sheath- 

 ing at the base. Panicle erect 8 to 10 inches long 

 with about eleven or twelve stiff branches four inches 

 long or less with lanceolate acuminate bracts at the base 

 J to -J inch long. Flowers in twos and threes on slender 

 pedicels ^ inch long. Perianth lobes narrow, white. 

 Fruit as large as a cherry, 1 to 3 seeded, scarlet. 



Penang at Batu Feringhi on the banks of the stream 

 and at Highlands (Curtis 2369). Dried specimens of 

 this often resemble those of D. Maingayi our biggest 

 tree Dracaena, but the living plant is much smaller and the 

 leaves are very variable in form. 



D. Jackiana, Wall. Cat. 5145. This plant obtained in Penang 

 by Wallich was confused by Baker (Journ. Linn. Soc. XIV, 

 5-32) with D. aurantiaca, Wallich, under the name of D. 

 spicata var. aurantiaca ; and Hooker in the flora of 

 British India puts it under imperfectly known species. 

 I have not seen Wallich's specimens but Dr. Prain says 

 that a plant collected on the Thaiping Hills by Kunstler 

 (No. 2719) is exactly like the Wallichian plant. This 

 plant is I think identical with a plant I collected in Pahang 

 and described under the name of D. longi folia (Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. Ill, 388). Hooker refers the Perak plant 

 to Kurz's D. pachyphylla, an Andamanese plant, which 

 however is probably distinct to judge from his description. 



D. pendula, n.sp. A tall shrub with a moderately stout stem 

 about 6 feet tall, leaves broadly oblong lanceolate acum- 



Jour. Straits Branoh 



