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DENDROSERIS 



Dendroseris D. Don. Compositae (13). 7 Juan Fernandez. 



Dendrosicyos Balf. f. Cucurbitaceae (2). 2 Socotra, trop. Afr. 



Dendrosma Panch. et Sebert. Rutaceae (inc. sed.). i New Caled. 



Dendrostylis Karst. et Triana (iMayna EP.). Flac. (2). 8 S. Am. 



Denekia Thunb. Compositae (4). 2 trop. Afr. 



Denhamia Meissn. Celastraceae. 4 trop. Austr. 



Denisia Post et O- Ktze. (Phryma p.p.). Phrymaceae. i S. Afr. 



Denisonia F. Muell. Verbenaceae (3). i Australia. 



Denizen, a pi. probably foreign, but maintaining its place. 



Dennettia E. G. Baker. Anonaceae (i). i S. Nigeria. 



Dennstaedtia Bernh. Polypodiaceae. 60 trop., S. Am., Austr. 



Dens (Lat.), a tooth. 



Dentaria (Tourn.) L. (Cardamine p.p. BH.). Crucif. (2). 20 N. temp. 



Dentate (dim. denticulate), with small teeth pointing outwards. 



Dentella Forst. Rubiaceae (i. 2). i Indomal. 



Deodar, Cedrus Deodnra Loud. 



Deonia Pierre ex Pax. (Blachia EP.). Euphorb. (A. n. 5). i Cochin- 



China. 



Depauperate, diminutive. 

 Dependent, hanging down. 



DeplancheaVieill. \Diplanthera BH.). Bignon. (2). 6 Malaya, Austr. 

 Deppea Cham, et Sclilechtd. Rubiaceae (I. 3). 9 C. Am., Mex. 

 Depresmenilia F. Muell. (Pityrodia p.p. EP.). Verben. (3). i Austr. 

 Dermatobotrys Bolus. Scrophul. (inc. sed.). i Zululand. 

 Dermatocalyx Oerst. Scrophulariaceae (n. 4). i Costa Rica. 

 Deroemeria Reichb. f. (Habenaria p.p. BH.). Orchidaceae (n. i). 



4 trop. Afr., Abyssinia. 



Derris Lour. (Deguelia Aubl.). Leguminosae (in. 8). 50 trop. 

 Desbordesia Pierre ex Van Tiegh. {Irvingia p.p.). Simarubaceae. 



5 trop. Afr. 



Descending (aestivation), see Aestivation. 



Deschampsia Beauv. Gramineae (9). 20 temp, and frigid. D. caespi- 

 tosa Beauv. (Aira) and D. flexuosa Trin. in Brit, (hair grass); of 

 tufted growth ; rough fodder grasses. 



Description of plants. Root, stem, leaf, flower, and fruit, &c. are 

 described for floras, &c. in concise technical terms (original descrip- 

 tions of new species must be in Latin), which are mostly given here 

 under fl., 1., &c. The descriptions of families in this book may serve 

 as examples for large groups, and as examples of a species described 

 in full detail we may refer to any numbers of \\\ejourn. Linn. Sot. 

 or to Lind ley's Descriptive Botany, from which we quote as instances: 

 lilac (1.): 1. opp., exstip., roundish-cordate, very acute, thin, 



smooth, rather longer than the linear channelled petiole, 

 buttercup (fl.) : fl. term., sol., on long angular and furrowed 

 peduncles, reg., S, hypog. Sepals 5, polysep., oval, coloured 

 at edge, reflexed, with shaggy hairs. Petals 5, polypet. , round- 

 ish, concave, with wedge-shaped basal nectaries, bright yellow. 

 Stamens co , polyandrous, spiral ; filament yellow, slender ; 

 anther linear, adnate, extrorse. Carpels oo , apocarpous, superior, 

 collected into a nearly spherical head, greenish ; stigmas sessile, 

 recurved ; ovules solitary, ascending, anatropous. 



