flower-stem bearing one or more whorls of 

 white flowers. They are each succeeded 

 by six or eight two-seeded carpels, ar- 

 ranged in the form of a star. [T. MJ 



DAME D'ONZE HEURES. (Fr.) Omi- 

 thogalum umbellatum. 



DAMIER. (Fr.) Fritillaria Meleagris. 



DAMMARA. A genus of Coniferaz or 

 Pinacece, the name of which is derived from 

 the native one in Amboyna. Flowers dioe- 

 cious, that is, some with stamens only, and 



Dammara obtusa. 



others with pistils only on separate plants : 

 the staminate flowers in catkins, the nu- 

 merous stamens having very short fila- 

 ments, and eight to fifteen-celled anthers ; 

 the pistillate ones in ovate or globular 

 cones with persistent scales without bracts. 

 I There is a single unequal-winged seed with 

 j two cotyledons under each scale. The 

 | species are large trees with scattered 

 I leathery leaves. They are found in the 

 j East Indian Islands, New Zealand and New 

 ! Guinea. 



j B. anstralis, the Kauri Pine of New Zea- 

 ! land, is a tree from 150 to 200 feet in height, 

 producing a hard brittle resin like copal. 

 ■ B. macrophyUa is a large tree 100 feet high, 

 \ found on Vanicolla, one of the Queen Char- 

 ] lotte Islands in the South Sea. B. Moorii 

 i is a tree forty feet high, found in New 

 Caledonia, B. obtusa is a large timber 

 tree used in ship-building, found in the 

 New Hebrides. B. orientalis, the Amboyna 

 Pine, is a tree of the Moluccas, 100 feet 

 high, which yields the fine transparent re- 

 sin called Dammar. [J. H. BJ 



DAMMER TREE, BLACK. Ca.narium 

 strict urn. — , WHITE. Vateria indica, the 

 resin of which is called Dammer pitch. 



DAMOTJCH. An Arab name for mtraria 

 trridentata, which is believed to be the 

 Lotus tree of the ancients. 



DAMPIERA. A genus of Goodcniacece, 

 named after the celebrated navigator Cap- 

 tain W. Dampier. It is distinguished by 

 having a calyx whose limb is short or ob- 



solete; a monopetalous, two-lipped, blue 

 or purple corolla, the segments of the 

 upper lip of which are auricled on the 

 inner margin ; five stamens with coherent 

 anthers ; and a style with a stigma seated 

 at the base of a cup, termed an indusium. 

 The flowers are axillary or terminal ; and 

 the leaves alternate. Tlfe plants,which are 

 shrubby or herbaceous, are natives of Aus- 

 tralia and Tasmania. [R. H.] 



DAMSON. A small austere variety of 

 plum. .-, BITTER, or MOUNTAIN. Sima- 

 ruba amara. 



DANiEA. A remarkable genus of ferns 

 of the danasineous division of the Marat- 

 tiacece. The species are not very numerous, 

 and are all South American or West Indian 

 They have large woody rhizomes, and pin- 

 nate rarely simple fleshy coriaceous fron " 

 the pinna of which are usually articulated, 

 The fertile fronds are more or less con- 

 tracted. The sori are very remarkable 

 they are linear, occupying the whole 

 length of the veins, and crowded so as 

 to cover the whole under-surface of the 

 divisions of the fertile fronds. The spore- 

 cases are consolidated into a fleshy mass, 

 which represents an involucre, each fleshy 

 case at length opening at the top by a 

 small round pore, so that the contiguous 

 fructiferous ridges appear to be each 

 pierced by a double line of small apertures. 

 In some species represented by B. nodosa, 

 which has the joints of the fronds thick- 

 ened, the sori are affixed to the veins by 



Dansea alata (fructification). 



their whole length ; in others, as in B. 

 stenoplnjlla, they are said to be affixed 

 only by the centre. ["T. M.] 



DAN^ACE^E. The name of a natural 

 order of ferns, also called Marattiace.33 : 

 which see. 



DAN^OPSIS. A doubtful genus of ferns, 

 separated from Dancea, on the ground of 

 its having anastomosing veins. Nothing 

 definite, however, appears to be known of 

 the plant. [T. MJ 



DANCING GIRLS. Mantisia sanatoria. 



DANDELION. Taraxacum Bens Leonis, 

 the Dent de Lion. 



DANEWORT. Sambucus Ebulus. 



