de-cur’-va... 
de-cus-sa’-tus 
Deer-ing’-i-a ... 
de-fic-i-ens 
de-flex’-us 
de’-lic-i-o’-sa ... 
De-li’-ma 
del-to-i'-de-a ... 
Den-drob’-i-um 
Den-droc-al’-am-us ... 
den-sif-lo’-ra .. 
den-sif-ol’-i-a 
(/ dena ita aS 
den-tic-ul-a’-ta 
de-nu-da’-ta . 
De-o-da -ra 
dep-ax’ -1-0-i’-des 
de-pau-per-a’-tus 
de-pen’-dens ... 
de-pres’-sa 
Der’ -ris 3 
des-cen’-dens... 
Des-mod -i-um 
Deut -zi-a 
dex-tror’-sum 
di 
Di-a’-li-um 
di-an’-drum ... 
Dich-op’-sis ... 
dich-ot’-om-us 
Dich-ro’-stach-ys 
Dick-so -ni-a ... 
Dick-so’-ni 
Dick-so‘ni-i 
Dic’-ty-os-per’-ma 
did’-ym-om ._ 
Dief-fen-bach’-i-a 
Di-er-vil’-la ... : 
Drf-fu’-sum_ .., 
PRONUNCIATION AND DERIVATION. Al 
(Latin), bent downward (H.) ; 
(Latin), decussate, arranged in pairs that alernately cross 
each other ; of leaves, pairs that alternately at right angles 
to each other up the axis; 
(com.) Deering, botanist of New Holland ; 
(Latin), some organ, or part of an organ, deficient ; 
(Latin), deflexed, bent downwards ; 
(Latin), delicious, fruited ; 
délimo (Latin), to sile down; (all:) roughness of the leaves, 
which are used for polishing (N. 1/449) ; 
(Greek), triangular in outline, usually with rounded angles ; 
dendron, bion (Greek), tree, living; (all:) epiphytic habit 
(N. 1/451) ; 
dendron, kalamos (Greek), tree, reed; (all:) large size of this 
grass ; 
(Latin), densely flowered ; 
(Latin), densely leavéd ; 
(Latin), toothed, or furnished with projecting points on the 
margin, which is more or less concave between those 
points ; 
(Latin), denticulate, or a dentate margin with the interspaces 
between the teeth furnished with smaller teeth ; 
(Latin), become bare, stripped of hair or other appendages ; 
dévaddru (Sanskrit), sacred tree ; 
(quasi-Greek), resembling the Deparia Fern of Australia [from 
dé pas (Greek) goblet; (all:) cup like involucres (N. 1/459)} ; 
(Latin), starved, whee some part is less perfectly developed 
thau is usual with plants of the same family ; 
(Latin), hanging down by its own weight; 
(Latin), jlattened vertically, or, of size, broad and dwarf, as 
if, instead of growing perpendicularly, the growth had taken 
place hurizontally ; 
(Greek), a leather covering ; (all:) coriaceous pods; 
(Latin), having a direction generally downwards ; 
desmodion (Greek), little bond; (all :) jointed pods, and 
connected stamens (N. 1/459) ; 
(com.) Johann Deutz. |(pr.:) Yo- harn. Doitz] Dutch naturalist, 
friend and patron ot Thunberg (N. 1/460) ; 
(Latin), right handed, twisting trom left to right in the direc- 
tion of the sun’s course; 
(Greek), twofold ; 
Didlis (Latin), belonging to Jupiter; (all:) noble appearances 
of the trees ; 
(Greek), having two stamens (N. 1/461) ; 
Dicra, opsis (reek), in two, resemblance ; (all:) calyx lobes in 
two series aod another 52 lobed at apex (N. 1/320) ; 
dichotomeo (Greek), to cut in two, i.e., continuously dividing inte 
two verifications (N. 1/467) ; 
dis, chrés, stachis (Greek), double, colour, spike ; (all :) inflores- 
cence being haif pink, half yellow, (N. 1/467) ; 
(com.) James Dickson, famous British Cryptogamic Botanist 
(N. 1/467) ; 
(com.) of James Dickson ; 
(com.) of Dr. Dickson, Surgeon of Bedanore in Malabar, who 
reported the Pinanga of his name, to Roxburgh (Rac. 3/617 
(bl. 727) ; 
diktiion, Sperma (Greek), net, seed ; (all:) raphe of seed forms 
a loose net-work (N. 1/470) ; 
(Greek), ton or double ; 
(com.) Dr. Diefenbach {(pr:) Deef-en-bark] German botanist 
(N. 1/472) ; 
com.) M. Dierville ((pr:) Dee-air-veel.] French Surgeon 
(N. 1/475) ; 
(Latin), widely spreading (H.) ; 
