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inate narrowed to the base and subpetiolate. Petiole 

 winged, 8 to 14 inches long 1^ to 3| inches wide. Pani- 

 cle graceful nodding 15 inches or more long with a 

 few distant branches slender 7 or 8 inches long bracts 

 small ovate lanceolate. Flowers in tufts of 2 or 3 distant 

 white on pedicels ^ inch long, slender f to nearly an 

 inch long split into segments for one-half their length ; 

 the lobes linear dilated upwards, stamens about as long, 

 anthers oblong. 



This fine plant a rows in damp swampy spots in forests. 

 I collected it in the Dindings on Gunong Tungal (No. 

 9448 of my collections) and have it also from Panchur 

 in Malacca ; and from Kwala Dipang and Gopeng from 

 King's collections (Nos. 8279 and 4643). The Malacca 

 specimens have broader and more distinctly petiolate 

 leaves, and the panicle is stouter, but it appears to be 

 specifically the same. It belongs to the nutantes section 

 of Dracaena, in which the flowers are in long pendulous 

 lax panicles. 

 Dracaena elliptica. Thunb. I found this common and variable 

 plant growing abundantly in muddy swampy places along 

 the Sungei Tebrau, this Easter. In this locality it had 

 quite a different appearance from the common lowland 

 dry forest form, being altogether a much larger and 

 stouter plant, almost a small tree in fact. 



We have now no less than sixteen species of Dracae- 

 na recorded from the Malay Peninsula, but there are 

 doubtless more than this for I have seen several plants in 

 our forests which appear quite distinct from any described, 

 but of which I have not been able to obtain flowers. 



COMMELLNACE^E. 



Forrestia gracilis, n. sp. Stem creeping then ascending for about 

 three feet a quarter of an inch through, twiggy dark 

 green and glabrous, internodes 2 inches long terete. 

 Leaves lanceolate acuminate narrowed into a winged 

 petiole, dark green and glabrous above, velvety beneath, 

 margined with red appressed hairs, 8 inches long 2 inches 

 wide, petiole and mouths of sheaths hairy. Iieads small 



R. A. See. No. 41, 1903. 



