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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
DRYMOPHLGUS. Fruit small or rather large. To 
the information given on p. 495, Vol. I., the following should 
be added: 
D. appendiculatus (appendiculate). _fl., scapes lateral. This is 
the correct name of the Palm described on p. 495, Vol. L., as 
D. olivceformis (G. & F. 1891, p. 330, f. 37). The plant matures 
fruit annually under cultivation at Kew. (B. M. 7202.) 
D. leprosus (leprous). The correct name of D. oliveformis. 
Syn. D. Rumphii. 
D. Rumphii (Rumphius’). A synonym of D. leprosus. 
D. singaporensis (Singapore). A synonym of Ptychoraphis 
singaporensis. 
DRYOBALANOPS. D. Camphora is a synonym of 
D. aromatica. 
DRYOPEIA. A synonym of Disperis (which see). 
DRYOPHANTA FOLII. See Oak Galls. 
DUANIA. A synonym of Homalanthus (which see). 
DUBBING. A name sometimes employed for clipping 
or trimming hedges. 
DUCHEKIA. A synonym of Palisota (which see). 
DUCHOLA. A synonym of Omphalea (which see). 
DUHAMELIA. A synonym of Hamelia (which see). 
DULIA. A synonym of Ledum (which see). 
DUMERILIA (of Lagasca). A synonym of Jungia 
(which see). 
eeeeee: DUMOUS. Having a compact, bushy 
abit, 
DUNG-LOVING EARTH-DIGGER, or DUNG- 
BEETLE. See Shard-borne Beetle. 
DUPERRYA. A synonym of Porana (which see). 
DURANTA. Flowers rather small, alternate at the 
sides of the rachis; calyx tubular or sub-campanulate ; 
corolla tube cylindrical, the limb spreading, five-lobed. 
Leaves opposite or whorled, entire or toothed. Drupe 
wholly included by the calyx, four-stoned. ‘To the species 
described on p. 496, Vol. I., the following should be added : 
D. Plumieri alba (white). A variety having white flowers and 
amber-coloured fruit. 1888. (G. C. 1888, iii., p. 45, f. 9.) 
D. stenostachya has also been introduced. 
DURETIA. A synonym of Behmeria (which see). 
DURIAN. This, the fruit of Durio zibethinus, has 
not found its way into British markets in any very large 
quantities—due in a measure to the difficulties attending 
its preservation ; it is nevertheless quite familiar to those 
Enropeans who haye travelled in tropical regions, in 
Malayan districts, or along the Bay of Bengal. It is oval 
Fic. 351. DURIAN (DURIO ZIBETHINUS). 
or globular in form (see Fig. 351), larger than a cocoa- 
nut, and attains some Sin. or 10in. in length. It has a 
hard prickly shell outside, and contains inside a soft 
creamy pulp and seeds. The pulp is considered to be b 
many the most delicious fruit in the world, but the smell 
Durian—continued. 
of it is most offensive, resembling, according to some 
experiences, that of rotting onions. The seeds are roasted 
and eaten lke chestnuts. When unripe, the frnit may be 
salted and added to pickles; but the strong smell is 
against its use as a pickle in civilised countries. 
DUVALIA. There are about ten species of this genus. 
To those described on p. 496, Vol. I., the following should 
be added : 
D. angustiloba (narrow-lobed). /l., corolla chocolate-brown, #in. 
to lin. in diameter, the lobes narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, 
folded back into thin, vertical plates; corona white; cymes 
stout, five- to twenty- or more-flowered. Stems sub-globose or 
oblong, 4in. to lin. long, 4in. to jin. thick, obtusely four- or rarely 
five-angled. 1875. 
DUVERNOIA. A synonym of Adhatoda (which see). 
DWARF PALMETTO. See Sabal Adansonii. 
DWARF RASPBERRY. See Rubus triflorus. 
DYCKIA. Including Encholirion (in part). According 
to J. G. Baker, this genus embraces upwards of thirty 
species, natives of Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. 
Flowers usually yellow, hermaphrodite ; sepals free to the 
base; petals usually lingulate-ungniculate; stamens 
Ry poeynens or three adnate to the base of the petals; 
inflorescence spicate, racemose, or paniculate; peduncle 
produced from the axil of one of the outer leaves of the 
basal rosette. Fruit a hard, three-angled capsule. Leaves 
very thick and rigid, margined with pungent spines. To 
the species described on p. 497, Vol. I., the following should 
be added: 
D. altissima (highest). jl. in an ample panicle, with sometimes 
ten to twelve branches, the lower ones lft. long; petals bright 
yellow, twice as long as the calyx; peduncle stout, not longer 
than the leaves. J. sometimes 100 in a dense rosette, ensiform, 
acuminate, lft. long, lin. broad, armed with copious pungent, 
brown spines. Central Brazil, 1840. Syns. D. princeps (L. J. F. 
224-5), D. gigantea, D. laxijlora, and D, ramosa (of gardens). 
D. Desmetiana (De Smet’s). jl. disposed in a branched panicle 
2ft. long; petals red, sin. long; peduncle 2ft. long. 7. ensiform, 
thick, recurved, 2ft. long, armed with marginal prickles. Brazil, 
1894. (B. M. 7340.) 
D. gemellaria (twin). A garden synonym of D. svlphurea. 
D. gigantea (gigantic). A garden synonym of D. altissima. 
D. laxiflora (lax-flowered), A garden synonym of D. altissima. 
D. Lemaireana (Lemaire’s). Probably a form of D. rarijlora. 
D. leptostachya (slender-spiked). 1. twenty to twenty-five in 
a simple, erect spike 6in. to Sin. long; sepals reddish, densely 
pruinose ; corolla bright scarlet, jin. long, the petals sin. broad ; 
peduncle slender, 3ft. long. Summer. J. fifteen to eighteen in a 
dense, nearly sessile rosette, lanceolate, acuminate, falcate, 
rigid, 15ft. to 1#ft. long, lin. to 1jin. broad, semi-circular at back, 
the marginal prickles brown. Paraguay, 1867. 
D. princeps (first). A synonym of D. altissima. 
D. ramosa (branched). A garden synonym of D. altissima. 
D. rariflora remotiflora (remote-flowered), ., petals twice 
as long as the calyx (being Zin. long), the blade obovate-spathu- 
late. (B. M. 3349 and B. R. 1782, under name of D. rarijlora.) 
D. Lemaireana is probably another form of rarijlora. 
D. regalis (regal). A synonym of D. frigida. 
D. sulphurea (sulphur-coloured). jl. ascending, in a lax, simple 
spike 14ft. long; petals pale sulphur-yellow, half as long again as 
the calyx ; peduncle lft. or more in length. J. thirty to forty in 
a dense rosette, 4ft. to 5ft. long, fin. to lin. broad, gradually 
narrowed to a pungent tip, the marginal prickles minute. Monte- 
video, 1873. Syn. D. gemeliavia (of gardens). Probably only a 
pale-flowered variety of D. brevifolia. 
DYSODIA [also spelt Dyssodia]. Beebera, which has 
been kept distinct in this work, is included hereunder by 
the authors of the ‘‘ Genera Plantarum.”’ 
DYSOPHYLLA (from dusodes, fetid, and phyllon, a 
leaf; in allusion to the pungent, Peppermint-like odour 
given off by the leaves). Syn. Chotekia. Orv. Labiate. 
A genus comprising about twelve species of stove or green- 
house herbs, natives of tropical Asia and Australia, Flowers 
minute, in dense spikes formed of many cymes. Leaves 
opposite or whorled. A few of the species have been intro- 
duced, but they are of little horticultural value. 
DYSSOCHROMA (from dysoos, sickly, and chroma, 
colour; in allusion to the lurid, sickly colour of the 
flowers). ORD. Solanacee, A small genus (two species) of 
stove, climbing sub-shrubs or small trees, natives of Brazil. 
Flowers greenish-yellow, large, pendulous; calyx ample, 
