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Dabdap (Philippines, Malay Archipelago). See Erythrina indica. 
Dactyloctenium aegyptiacum. GOOSE GRASS, 
Family Poaceae. 
LocaL NAMEs.—Salai maya (Philippines). 
An annual grass spread throughout the warmer regions of the globe. Leaves 
distichous, flat, acute, ciliate; sheaths compressed; spikes digitate; spikelets at 
right angles to the rachis of the spikes; glumes rigid, cuspidate, glabrous, the lower- 
most ovate, the second broadly ovate, obliquely cuspidately awned as are the follow- 
ing, the cusps recurved; palez very broad, bifid, the keels hispid; grain globose, 
very rough, the pericarp evanescent. 
Common in Guam, growing in damp sandy places. A coarse-looking grass rising 
above the general level of the ‘‘grama’”’ (Capriola dactylon), with which it is asso- 
ciated, together with leusine indica. In the Philippines the vernacular name signi- 
ties ‘‘sparrow’s nest.”’ 
REFERENCES: 
Dactyloctenium aegyptiacum (L.) Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 2: 1029. 1809, 
Cynosurus aegyptius L. Sp. Pl. 1: 72. 1753. 
Dadangsi or Daédanse (Guam). 
Vernacular name signifying ‘“‘ bur’? or something which sticks to something else; 
applied to Triumfetta rhomboidea, T. pilosa, and Urena sinuata, all of which have 
prickly fruit with hooked spines. 
Dadig (Guam). Vernacular name for a small coconut of the size of a betel nut. 
Dafau, Dafao (Guam). See Boerhaavia diffusa. 
Daffodil, seaside. See Pancratium littorale. 
Dagmai (Philippines). See Caladium colocasia. 
Dago (Guam). Vernacular name for one class of yams. See Dioscorea, D. alata, 
D. glabra, and D. sativa. 
Dalandan (Philippines). See Citrus aurantium smensis. 
Dalayap (Philippines). See Citrus hystrix acida, 
Dalima (Philippines). See Puniea granatum. 
Dalinga or Dalingag (Philippines). See Dioscorea fasciculata. 
Dalisay (Philippines). See Terminalia catappa. 
Daltonia. See Neckera, under Mosses. 
Dama de noche (Spanish). See Cestrum nocturnum. 
Dampalit (Philippines). See Sesuvium portulacastrum. 
Dangkalan, Dinkalin (Philippines). See Calophyllum inophyllum. 
Dao (Philippines). See Zinziber zerumbet. 
Daog or Daok (Guam). Vernacular name for Calophyllum inophyllum. 
Daphne. 
To this genus Freycinet referred a plant used by the natives for making a sort of 
noose to aid them in climbing trees, called ‘‘gapit atayake.”’ 
Date palm. See Phoenix dactylifera. 
Date palm, wild. See Phoenix sylvestris. 
Datura fastuosa. THORNAPPLE. 
Family Solanaceae. 
A rank tropical plant growing in waste places, very much like the common D. stra- 
monium, but with larger flowers and pods not regularly dehiscent. Its leaves are 
ovate, entire or deeply toothed, and smooth; corolla purple or white, limb shortly 
5 or 6-toothed, 
