INDEX 
669 
Discrete, separate 
Dissected, deeply divided 
Dissepiment, septum, 82 
Distal, furthest from axis 
Distichous, in two ranks, 47, 51 
Distribution, discontinuous, 1 46 ; 
geographical, 140, 3; of 
seeds, 109; of sexes, 68, 
Compositae ; of species, 14 1 
Dita bark, Alstonia scholaris R. 
Br. 
Ditch grass (Am.), Ruppia 
Dithecous, with two thecae 
Dittander, Lepidium latifolium L. 
Divaricate, very divergent 
Divi-divi, Caesalpinia 
Division of labour, 20, 88; among 
stamens, Cassia , Commelina , 
Heeria 
Dock, Rumex 
Dodder, Cuscuta 
Dodge, 197 
Dog-bane (Am.), Apocynum ; 
-daisy, Chrysanthemum ; -rose, 
Rosa ; -’s tail grass, Cynosurus; 
-’s tooth grass, Cynodon ; -wood, 
Cornus , (W. I.) Piscidia 
Dollee-wood (W. I.), Myristica 
surinamensis Roland. 
Domatia, 114, Fraxinus 
Domba (Ceyl.), Calophyllum 
Inophyllum L. 
Dominant species, 179 
Doob grass, Bermuda grass, 
Cynodon 
Doon (Ceyl.), Doona 
Door weed (Am.), Polyg 07 ium 
aviculare L. 
Dormant buds, 42 
Dorsal (leaf surface), 31, 49, 73, 
(suture), 82 
Dorsifixed anther, 78 
Dorsiventral leaf, 49 
Dorsiventrality, 31, 74, 163, 
Podostemaceae 
Double coconut, Lodoicea ; -flower, 
22, 208; -needles, Coniferae 
Douglas fir, Tsuga 
Doum palm, Hyphaene 
Dove- wood (W. I.), Alchoriiea 
Down-tree (W. I.), Ochroma 
Downy leaf, 53 
Dragendorff, 197 
Dragon-root (Am.), Arisaema; 
-tree, Dracaena ; -’s blood, 
Dracaena 
Drepanium, 64, 65 
Drinks prepared from plants, 206 
Driodium (Cl.), a dry thicket 
formation 
Drip-tip, 143, 190, A eery Arto- 
carpiiSy Begonia , Boehmeria , 
Ficus 
Drooping of young shoot, 157 ; of 
young leaves, Amherstiay Bau- 
hinia , &c. 
Dropper, young immature bulb 
Dropseed grass (Am.), Sporobolus , 
Muhlenbergia 
Drop wort, water, Oenanthe 
Drude, O., 140, 179; floral regions, 
190; zones of vegetation, 180 
Drugs, 202 
Drupaceous, drupe-like 
Drupe, 108 
Dry fruit, 107 
Dry season, 151, 154, 155 
Drying plants, 13 
Ducksmeat (Am.), duckweed, 
Lem 7 ia 
Duffin bean, Phaseolus 
Dulcis (Lat.), sweet 
Dumb-cane, Dieffenbachia 
Dumose, shrubby 
Dunes, 186 
Duramen, 158 
Durian, Durio 
Dutch clover, Trifolium\ -grass 
(W. I.), Panicum 7 nolle Sw. ; 
-rushes, Equisetum 
Dutchman’s breeches, Dicentra\ 
-pipe, Aristolochia 
Dwale, Atropa 
Dye stuffs, 201 
Dyer’s green-weed, Genista ; 
-weld, Reseda 
E., East 
E- (Lat. pref.), without 
Eagle- wood, Aquilaria Agallocha 
Roxb. (Burma) 
Early purple orchis, 0 ?rhis 
