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Dabdap (Philippines, Malay Archipelago). See Erythrina indica. 

 Dactyloctenium aegyptiaciiin. 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; palese 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 Eleusine indica. In the Philippines the vernacular name signi- 

 fies "sparrow's nest." 

 Eeferences: 



Dactyloctenium aegyptiacuni (L.) Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 2: 1029. 1809. 

 Cynosurus aegyptius L. Sp. PI. 1 : 72. 1753. 

 Dddangsi or D&danse (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 d'iffusa. 

 Safifbdil, seaside. See Pancratium littorale. 

 Dagmai (Philippines). See Caladium colocasia. 

 Dag'O (Guam). Vernacular name for one class of yams. See Dioscorea, D. alata, 



D. glabra, and D. sativa. 

 Dalandan (Philippines) . See Citrus auraniium sinensis. 

 Dalayap (Philippines). See Citrus hystrix acida. 

 Dalima (Philippines) . See Prniica granatum. 

 Dali^a or Daling'ag (Philippines). See Dioscorea faseiculata. 

 Salisay (Philippines) . See Terminalia catappa. 

 Baltoiiia. See Nechera, under Mosses. 

 Dama de noclie (Spanish) . See Cestrum nocturnum. 

 Dampalit (Philippines). See Sesuirium 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 daciylifera. 

 Date palm, wild. See Phoenix sylvesfris. 



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. 



