DIO 
nia, lying to the we of the Euphrates and the fouth of 
Melos 
DIOSPORON, in Bolany, (from 3 
uf 
erecos, a feed,) has fometimes been ame for 
Gromwell, or Litho/permum officinale, ek called by old 
e ancient names Ae chee ne 
ap- 
Pliny, faye fome alt it 
writers Milium Solis. hefe 
to the brilliancy and beauty o 
e fee e Linne 
pellation expreffes its ftony aie 
= cake and 
the 
DIO 
| leaves are aoe and broader in aa ion Has 
the preceding, and though, like them ler 
dens. 
hofe 
neath, ane lefs eae be fo. The flowers alfo are Galler, 
D. Eébenum. Linn. Suppl. 440. (D. melanoxylon; Rox. 
burgh Corom. v. i. 35.t. 46.) reel es aaa fmooth, 
coriaceous, reticulated with v Buds hairy —TFvund in 
the woods of Cey ci. hie who fent it to Lin 
reus as the true Kbo a Dr. Roxburgh alfo {peaks of it as 
Diof-pyron. See oe on) a wn and valuable Ebony. “ It is only the centre 
ag eee (from dks, ve Tee ake and either Tp) @ arge trees,’’ fays that faithtul obferver, ** that is black 
Jjire, or flame, or elle whea e latter is es oa a ela and the quantity found is more or lefs, accord 
of Linnezus, ne fo of fome smears n Theo. ing to the age at the t The outlide aay is white and 
phrafius. ‘The a ae of either is, in the enta ae oS and either decays foon, or is — by infects, which 
unintelligible. We have often fulpeSted that the Italian be leave the black untouche ripe froit is eaten i) the 
tanilts of the 16th century, who firtt ore this name to fave but is aftringent and not very palatable.”? We are cer- 
ftood 1 
refent genus, under it asa jum 
in queition ) Date- plum, or Perlimon. 
ae 736. Juffl. 156. Gertn. t. 199. (Guai 
t. Clafs and order, Po’ygania Diwcia, or 
eis Monae. Nat. Ord. Guaiacana, Juff. 
Gen.Ch. Perianth of one leef,in four, lometimes five or 
fix, deep, obtule, permanent, and finally enlarzed fegments. 
Cor. of one ae urceolate, larger than the calyx, four-cleft ; 
its fegyments acute and pate ng. 
in the receptacle ; anthers oblorg, acute, in 
Cermen fu uperior, round! a 
ityle one, di- 
tha 
wa ound 
ay ere on a fe e plant, 
aaa, rine ae bt aie ; a fquare, vreeclat, 
aceous corolla, w ments are revolute; lon cute 
twin alii the ‘ceeaaoe fmalict; and only the rudiment 
a germ 
w EE Ch. “Calyx four-cleft. Corolla urceolate, four-cleft. 
Style four-cleft. Stamens eight or a Berry with eight 
reffed, 
feeds. Male flowers ona feparate pia 
Ob/. This genus is very ieee aie d to Royena, as 
Desfontaines oe the Annales du Muféum 
national Whiftcire cate. Vv. 6 445, who afferts the only 
éifference to be that Royena has only four cells in the fruit, 
s five or fix divilions. £. O45 
had already noticed the Linszan fete ston of Ge ra of 
ace eonicn as he fays, from Commelin’s Hortns, v.i. 2.96, 
and that it is really a berry of four cells, 
ee eith ae coe. which fplits irreguiarly. 
The peo? . Dio 
oe is in rata ner is atable, being cee and etna 
unrt ate it is powerfully altringent. fhe leaves are 
cone ines ani undivided. Flowers ees cu- 
Os, ye ellowth. 
» Lotus. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1 sa 
te ie Mart Mull. Di :€b. Vv. 
Ger fs 1495. f. 1,2.) ‘Lea eee on the under fide.’ 
This are ‘wild j in the fouth- aa parts of Europe, and wi t 
bear our climate in the open atr, but we have never feen the 
Palias Rofs. v.i, p. 2. 
a ea patavinum 3 3 
ripe fruit. In It it comes to tolerable perfection, but 
is not efteemed, otherwife than as a remedy for diarrheeas. 
D. virginiana. Linn. Sp. Pl. 15 to. ill. 12 
Mart. Mill v. 2. min, a Virginia none Park. 
P 
« Leaves both fides of the fame co- 
r.? A native of Virginia, which has long been in our gar- 
of Greek and 
Ley rus, a pear, bring not very ae to the fruit 
Linn. Gen. 550. 
ather Oc- 
Siam. Filaments eight, (in 
D. virginiana, 16 in two oo awl thaped, fhort, firmly fixed 
mott flowers in- 
cori« 
tain ot the above fynonyms and therefore canrot account for 
the report of a confufion of ty ianéus, which 
t 
Martyn’s Miller, and Retzius’s Obf. Bot. 
quotes Rottboll in the New Copenhagen Tranfactions 
“our na Fatt Indian sae are deferibed se gored 
y Dr. Roxburgh, D. (ome te 7: D. montana, t. 
D. chior -oxylon, t t. Tre ocd of this is cat. weny 
hard and durable, and ufed by the natives of the Orixa 
a moun- 
tains for various —o purpo The fruit when ripe 
is eaten raw, and is very palatable: 2 nd D. cordifolia, t. 50. 
Lourei:o ieee the true ee asa diltinct genus by 
the name of Esenoxycum, which fee, This is a native ox 
Cochinchina. 
tosrvRos. in Gardening, contains plants of the dca 
se fhrubby flowermg cxouc kind; of which the 
principal fpecies culivated are, the vue ean re plum 
(D. Lotus), and the American date p a. virginiana). 
The firft of which rifes with a trees! like fe mio the heigt t 
of fix feet; the fmal-er branches {pread a little, an 
lowihh ; the leaves oval-lanceolate, 
paler underneath, fomewhat hoary, with the 
what hairy; the flowers are {mall, reddith white, rotate 5 
t e ; 
e la ter fort rifes here to the height of from fourteen 
to Race feet, commonly dividing into many irregular 
trunks near the ground ; ie wood is hard, ie is aeel 
nd fomewhat eee the branches are many, and gr 2 
to the end, red wa a very Ga el fats 
the leaves many, fo ad ‘cen, Without dent or notch on 
the edges; fo like the former, that it — at i bs be fs 
ons 
oe 
a 
tad 
fame; it dark brown bark on the brarches, but 
the twigs it is greyifh; the fruit ts in Ge and bigmnels ike 
a date, very firm as that fruit, almolt as{weet, with a great, 
flat, thick, large rea within. 
Carolina, in A 
Method of ae —The manner of increafing oe 
plants is by fowing the feds in a wari fituation in the 
open pina in the pring ; but itis better when done in ne 
or beds filled with good earth, and plunged into a moderate 
hot-bed, as oo rife more quickly, aud advance with greater 
rapidity. When the pla ave attained fome giowth, 
they fhouid be gadtally expofed to the open air until the 
autumn, when thofe in the tuil ground fhou'd be ca refully 
proteéted from froft by mats or other wie and thofe in 
pots placed under a garden frame, © e¢ heat, free air 
being cam tted whe - aaa ism 
ing {pring they fhou removed, and planted outina warm 
ee in the a a at- or oper diflances, to remain two 
or more years, when they will be fit to be finaly put 
i 
It is found in Virginia and 
