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pernua, natural order perfonatas, (vitices, Jiff.) The ge¬ 
neric characters are—Calyx : perianthium one-leafed, ta¬ 
bular, fomewhat truncated, five-cleft. Corolla: one-pe- 
talled ; tube longer than the calyx, fomevvhat curved ; 
border patulous, five-parted, nearly equal, rounded. 
Stamina: filaments four, the two longer ones within the 
tube; antherse roundifh. Piftillum : germ inferior, 
roundifh ; flyles filiform, length of the ftamens; fligma 
thickilh. Pericarpium: berry roundifh, covered by the 
calyx. Seed: kernels four, two-celled.— EJfcntial Cha- 
raElc. Calyx, five-cleft, fuperior ; berry four-feeded ; 
feeds two-celled. 
Species, i. Duranta Plumieri, or fmooth duranta: 
fruiting calyxes twilled. This growls fifteen feet high, 
with alternate branches, ereft or reclining ; fpines awl- 
fhaped, oppofite, but very frequently wanting; leaves 
lanceolate, fihooth,. two inches long; flowers fii htly 
fweet-fmelling,very many, blue,.on very fliort peduncles; 
fruit yellow ; the calyx alfo then becoming yellow, and 
like a berry, the whole being changed, and different from 
its former fhape. 
Linnaeus originally made two fpecies of this, and Mil¬ 
ler continues them diftinft, adding a third, under the 
name of Durantia trcEla , which is probably our fecond 
fpecies D. Ellifia., Native of South America, and the 
Weft-India iflands. 
2. Duranta Ellifia, or Brown’s duranta : fruiting ca¬ 
lyxes ereft. This fhrub is a fathom in height or more, 
branched, and even. The fpecific character of this and 
the preceding, taken from the contorfion of the calyx 
above the fruit, is vague and infufficient ; fince the dif¬ 
ferences occur frequently in the fame raceme. They are 
therefore in all probability not fpecifically diftinft:. Jac- 
quin alfo remarks, that it is extremely like the firfl fpe¬ 
cies, except that the fruiting calyx is not twilled in the 
tipper part, but continues convergent and ereft:. Not- 
withftanding this approximation, Br. Patrick Browne 
made it a diftinft: genus, under the name Ellifia , from Mr. 
Ellis the ingenious author of a treatife on Zoophites, or 
plant-like marine produftions of an animal nature. He 
fays that this fhrub rifes frequently to the height of fix 
orfeven feet; that the leaves are very like thole of green 
tea; and that the branches,though fometimes befet with 
thorns, are often otherwife. Native of the Weft Indies. 
In Jamaica frequent in hedges, between Kingflon and St. 
Jago de la Vega.. 
3. Duranta Mutifii, or Mutis’s duranta : leaves ellip¬ 
tic, quite entire. This differs no otherwife from the two 
other fpecies than in the leaves. Native of South Ame¬ 
rica, and found there by Mutis. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants, being natives of 
warm countries, require a ftove to preferve them in Eng¬ 
land ; they are propagated by feeds, which fhould be 
fown in fmall pots, and plunged into a hot-bed of tan¬ 
ner’s bark ; and when the plants are fit to remove, they 
mufl be planted each into a feparate fmall pot filled with 
light earth, and plunged into the hot-bed again, obferv- 
ing to fhade them till they have taken new root, then they 
mud be treated in the fame manner as other plants from 
the fame country. They may alfo be increafed by cut¬ 
tings, which put out roots very readily. They thrive 
bed during winter in a temperate heat; for when they 
are too tenderly treated, their fhoots are apt to be weak, 
and then they are attacked by vermin. In hummer, place 
them in a warm fiieltered fituation in the open air. 
DURAN'TE ABSEN'TIA Adminijlration, f. in law, 
is an adminidration granted when the executor is out of 
the realm, to continue in force until his return. And, 
Durante Minore Estate Adminijlration, is becaufe an 
infant cannot aft as executor until heventeen, during 
which minority this adminidration is granted. See the, 
article Executor. 
DURAN' IT (John Stephen), an honourable martyr 
to the violences of the league in France, fon of a coun- 
fellpr of the parliament of Touloule, He was brought 
up to the bar, and didingtlifhed himfelf by his eloquence. 
In 1563 he was made capitoul, orfird magidrate. He af¬ 
terwards became advocate-general ; and in 1581 was no¬ 
minated by the king prefident of the parliament of Tou-, 
loufe. He was warmly attached to the royal caufe ; and 
when the maflacre of the duke and cardinal of Guile in 
1589 had inflamed the rage of the leaguers, efpecially at 
Touloule, he employed all the force of his eloquence to 
appenfe the people. The rage of the crowd was for a 
moment checked, and a profound (Hence enftted ; when 
a villain fired a mufquet at him, which brought him 
down; and while his hands were railed in prayer for his 
murderers, the mob rallied upon him, and pierced him 
with a thoufand wounds. Such was his unhappy end, at 
the age of fifty-five, in February, 1589; andthuswashe 
rewarded for the pains he had taken at his own hazard to 
free Touloufe from the plague ; for his conftant oppofi- 
tion to herefy ; and for numerous benefits which he had 
conferred upon the religious orders, and upon the poor 
of the city. He was a great friend to letters, and had 
collefted a fine library, which was difperfed after his 
death. He is confidered as the real author of a learned 
and excellent work De Ritibus Ecclefire, which has been at¬ 
tributed to Peter Danes, hilltop of Lavaur. 
DU'RAS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lot and Garonne, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Marmande, on the Drot: three leagues and a 
half north of Marmande. 
DURA'TION,yi \_duratio, Lat.] A fort of dillance or 
length, the idea whereof we get, not from the permanent 
parts of fpace, but from the fleeting and perpetually pe¬ 
ri filing parts of luccefiion. Locke. —Power of continuance. 
—Duration is a circumltance fo elfential to happinefs, that 
if we conceived it poflible for the joys of heaven itfelf to 
pals from us in an inftant, we lhould find ourfelves not 
-much concerned for the attainment of them. Rogers .—• 
Length of continuance.—Arillotle, by greatnefs of ac¬ 
tion, does not only mean it lhould be great in its nature, 
but alfo in its duration. AddiJ'on. 
DURATO'N, a river of Spain, which runs into the 
Duero, near Penafiel. 
DURAZZA'NO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, and province of Lavora : fixteen miles north-eaft 
of Naples. 
DURAZ'ZO, a feaport town of European Turkey, in 
Albania, anciently named Epidamnus and Dyrrachium, 
llrong and populous, with a good harbour; the fee of a 
Greek bilhop : eighty-eight miles fouth-fouth-eall of Ra- 
gufa. Lat. 41.42. N. Ion. 37. 2. E. F'erro. 
DUR'BAN, a town of France, in the department of 
the Aube, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 
La Grade : four leagues and a half fouth-wellof Narbonne. 
DUR'BEN, a*townof the duchy of Courland : twenty- 
four miles.fouth-fouth-weft of Goldingen. 
DURdBION, a river of France, which runs into the 
Mofelle, near Chatel fur Mofelle, in the department of 
the Vofges. 
DURBUN'GA, a town of Hindoollan,. in the country 
of Bahar : forty-eight miles north-eall of Patna, and 
fifty-eight fouth-weft of Amerpour. 
DUk'SUY, a town of the Netherlands, in the duchy 
of Luxembourg, and capital of a county of the fame 
name, on the river Ourte, taken by France, in the year 
1681, but rellored in 1692 : twenty miles north ot Baltogne. 
DURCK'HEIM, oiT'urckheim, a townof Germany, 
in the circle of the Upper Rhine, and county of Linange : 
fourteen miles well of Manheim, and fourteen north of 
Landau. 
DUR'DEN, f. in old records, a copfe, a thicket in a 
valley. 
To DURE, v. n. \_duro, Lat.] To lad ; to continue ; to 
endure.—The delights and pleafures of the world are mod 
pleading while they dure. Raleigh. 
DU'REFUL, adj. Lading; of long continuance ; dura~- 
ble. Not rnufa 
