DIL 
Tt is, perhaps, a fort of crop that may be grown with 
advantage on the inferior forts of foilia moit fituations. 
Ditt, in in Geagraphy, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Upper Rhine, ai feat of a jurifdition in the county 
of Spanheim; 26 miles W.N.W. of Creutznach 
a mountain and promontory of Indi, on the 
coalt of Mulabsry fituated in N. Jat. 12° 1’, E. long. 75° 2’, 
or 1° weit of Cochin. 
DILLE NBURG, a {mall town of Germany, in the 
circle of Weltphalia, on the river Dill; 
of Marpurg; 54 N. of Frarcfort on the Mayn; and 
60 E.or Bonn, Lat. 50° 45’. It has an avcient caftle, 
and sey to the princes of Naffau Dillenburg; but it 
is now n the confcription of the new. kingdom of Wcit- 
phaiia,. See Nassau 
kee eet In Diy, a magnificent Eaft Indian 
geuns of plants, named by Linnscus in honour of Joho some 
Dilenius, the firft Sherardizn Profeffor at Oxtord; ‘ be- 
caufe,”? as he himfelf informs us in itica Botanica, 
p. 80. “it is of al plants the moft diftinguifhed fer the 
beauty of its flower and fruit, like Jeni H a- 
tamits.” inn. Gen. 2776 jehite « B72: id. Sp 
Gen. Ch. erior, “of five roundifh, con- 
cave, large, cOnacs00 permanent leaves; at length be- 
coming pulpy, enveloping the capfule. Cor, Petals five, 
oundith, concave, large, fomewhat coriaceous, 
ments very numerous, linear, crowded, fhorter than the petals, 
permane ; anthers terminal, ered, oblong, with a recurved 
point. Germen fuperior, roundith, depreffed, aggre- 
gate, of ce ii celis; ityles none; ftigmas one to each 
cell, oblong, depreffed, f{preading in the form of a ftar. 
Peric. Capfules about 20, juicy when ripe, compreffed, 
ranged circularly round a pulpy receptacle, and covered by 
the pul Py permanent calyx. Seeds feveral in each capfule, 
inferted along its inner. edge, compreffed, fringed at their 
outer margin. 
— Ch. Calyx inferior, of five coriaceous permanent 
leav Petals five. Capfules feveral, comprefled, many- 
rae ranged circularly round a pulpy receptacle. 
Linneus derived his charaéters of this genus from the 
defeription and figures in the Hortus Malabaricus, Vo Bi 1.38, 
39, with the infpe@tion of a dried {pecimen only. Hence 
he has not well chara@terized the feeds as “‘ imbedded in 
pulp under ci capfules.” The fruit was sa eas 
more correctly r. Smith’s Exotic Botany, 
however, in the ‘fall defeription, the capfule is taid . conbitt 
se ells,?? whereas it is rathe cha- 
racter, an ee a of 20 capfules, coalefcing when ri 
into on Curtis ve col 
ulpy ma 
Founded with this genus t the Hibbertia of Andrews Rey: 
126, which the former, b y amo oft ftra e and unac- 
coma il perehenion, took for the ori el D. indica. 
The three ee are the mot certain sae of Die 
tome Be pea oe of Linn. Soc. v. 1. 200. 
Sm. Exot. Bot. v. 1. 3. t. 2, 3. (D. indice Rae Sp. Pl. 
9745. Syalita; Rheed. Maleb, v. 3. 39.¢ 9.) * Leaves 
elliptic- ee eee ferrated. Flower ee Stigmas 
te”? A native of the foreits of Malabar and Java, 
finply ferrated, furm with one ri umerous paral- 
el ae veins, ong but not i, except on the. 
27 miles N.W.° 
alks, ae adliniag to oe fharply but. 
DIL 
Flowers terminal, folitary, four or five 
inches in diameter, fragrant and very han fume, on imple 
round = Their petals are white, with ribbed yellow th 
c ens of a bright full ycllow, forming a globes te 
fliymes in the 
: man’s fit, 
refembling a large greenifh apple, but lobed, owing to the 
five leaves of the calyx, enlarged and become juicy, whica 
compote its outfide, enveloping the capfules and their ceatral 
receptacle, ail likewife very fuccu‘ent, and con- Ritutiog an 
eatable, though very acid, fruit, baer as Rheede informs 
Suey to make 
back of the veins. 
oe 
denfely eee mafs, “crowned with the 
ia wild ‘fate the tree begins to bea 
years old, ripening | its in Decne: and January. 
f. 2,65. t. 92,93. (D. fer- 
La “See: Vals GOL? 
eo) ae crcl 
gmas 
linear.”? [bis was eee is Geeta ade che: 
F.L. S, in cae to the ea 
other parts of the Eaft hear flowering in April, and 
e flowers are but 
th 7a 
are doubly ferrated, ee 
agyna t Cus mand. v. 
tees ire colang, imply ferrated. beaa falks is 
s five. Found by Dr. Rox- 
ae 
ee 
a 
c 
8 
large as thofe of the frit a passa ; the flowers {mall, yellow, 
on fimple ftalks, growirg many to ogether in bundles along the 
branches. The fruit is a the fize of a goofeberry. 
Lefs certain {pecies are, 4 elliptica. Thunb. in Tr. 
> 
eae bal D. fpeciofay 
he ees referred it. ra. Thunb. ib. 
obovate, Sait nearly entire.’? 
Beand i in ‘Ceylon D retufa. Ibid. 200. t. 19. ‘* Leaves 
pee truncate f ed.” From the fame country. 
. D. ata. Ibid. 201.t.20. * Leaves obovate, abrupt, 
to oe. eFlowers feveral on a flalk.’?? Found aifo ia 
i Thefe four belong to a genus eftablithed by Rott- 
under the name 
unknown to Rottboll. Tn the im ee “Tne oe ‘de- 
{cribes three aaaile on a ftalk; our fpecimen has fix, form~- 
ing a fimple racemu. 
DILLENIUS, 0 HN JAMEs, in Biography, one of the 
moft sally botarifts of the 18th century, efpecially for 
his knowledge offes and their allies, was born at Darm- 
Rtadt, in Germany, in 1687.. He was educated for ah 
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