The east slope of the mountain is damper, and much more densely wooded; we there found two wild species of nutmeg trees, whose wood is full of a brown acrid oil, seven palms, tree-ferns, and many other kinds of ferns, several kinds of oak, dracaena, and figs.
"Himalayan Journals V2."
J. D. Hooker
Qat made them out of the wood of dracaena-trees.
"Darwin and Modern Science"
A.C. Seward and Others
After the leaves, palm-leaf baskets of the dracaena root are flung to them, more leaves, and then bystanders and every one join in shovelling earth over all till the pit is gone, and a smoking mound of fresh earth takes its place.
"Modern Mythology"
Andrew Lang