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pitate ; ftyle bridle-form, length of the ftamens. Peri- 
car pi it m : pome ronndifh, on all parts muricated witli 
many-fided dagger points, five-celled, gaping open in five 
directions; cells pne to five feeded. Seeds : large, ovate, 
involved in a tmicofe pulp, in a membranaceous aril.— 
EJJential CharaElcx. —Calyx, five-cleft, pitcher-ftiaped, in¬ 
ferior; cor 11a, five-pelalled, fmall; ftyle,one; ftamina, 
in five bodies;- pome, five-celled. 
Dario Zibethinus, a Angle fpecies ; it is a lofty tree 
•with flowers below the leaves, which are alternate. Na¬ 
tive of the Eafl Indies. The leaves referable thofe of 
the cherry, but are not dented at the edges, and are there¬ 
fore in reality more like nutmeg leaves ; the flowers are 
borne in loofe heads; they are large, and of a pale yel¬ 
low-white colour. The fruit is the fize of a man’s head, 
and round or oblong ; refembling in forne degree a rolled- 
lip hedge-hog, with a hard bark or rind ; lhe flefliy part 
of the fruit is of a creamy fubftance, and of a delicate 
tafte ; but of an unpleafant heavy finell, fomewhat re¬ 
fembling that of rotten onions; and the fmell of the 
breath of thofe who eat it is infected alfo jn a high de¬ 
gree ; but when once a perfon has acciiftomed himielf to 
eat this fruit, he generally confiders it as the molt excel¬ 
lent of all others. 
DU'RfTY, f. [durete , Fr. durns, Lat.] Hardnefs; 
firmnefs-—Irradiancy or fparkling, found in many gems, 
is not cnfcoverable in this ; for it cometh fliort of their 
compadtnefs and durity. Brown. 
DUR'KO, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Natolia : forty-two miles fouth-weft of Amalich. 
DUR'LA.CH, a tsvvn of Germany, in the circle of 
Swabia, which gives title to one of the branches of the 
iioufes' of -Baden, called margrave of Baden Durlach, (i- 
tuated on the Pfinz. It contains a cattle, with a mint, a 
Latin' fchool, manufa6tures of china-ware, cloth, and 
fluffs; the environs tire fertile, efpecially in fruit and 
wine : fixteen miles fouth of Spire, and thirty-two weft- 
north-weft of Stuttgart. Lat. 48. 59. N. Ion. 26. 9. E. 
Ferro. 
DURN'BERG, a mountain of Germany, in the circle 
of Bavaria, and archbifliopric of Saltzburg : two miles 
ibuth-fouth-w.eft of Hallein. 
DUR'NESS, a town of Scotland, in the county of Su¬ 
therland, near the north coaft, at the bottom of a bay, 
formed by a river of the fame name, called the Kyle of 
Durncfs: forty-fix miles north-north-weft of Dornoch. 
Lkt. 58. 33. N. Ion. 1.21.W. Edinburgh. 
DUR'NESS, a river of Scotland, which runs into the 
North Sea, a little to the weft of Faro.ut Head, forming a 
bay at its mouth, called the Kyle of Durnefs. 
DURN'ISH, a town of Scotland, on the weftern coaft 
of the ifland of Skye. 
DUR'NIUM, or Durnovaria, anciently a town of 
the Durotriges in Britain : now Dorchefter. 
DUROBRI'VHJ, anciently a town of the Catyeuchlani 
in Britain: now in ruins, which lie on the Nen, between 
Cafter and Dornford, in Northamptonfliire, on the bor¬ 
ders of Huntingdon. 
DUROBFH'VZE, or Duro.cobri v^;, a town of the 
Trinobantes, in Britain ; whole ruins are fituated between 
Flamftead and Redburn, in Hertfordftiire. 
DUROBRI'VIS, anciently a town twenty-five miles 
to the weft of Durovernum, or Canterbury, from which 
it appears to be Rochefter, confirmed by the charter of 
foundation of the church, in which it is called Durobrevis. 
DUROCA'SES, Durocassium, or Durocass^, an¬ 
ciently a town of the Carnutes, in Gallia Celtica; now, 
Dreux. 
DUROCh'SKOI, a town of Ruffian Tartary, in the 
government of Irkutfch, on the borders of China, near the 
river Argunia : t6omiles fouth fouth eaft of Nertchintfk. 
DUROCORNO'VIUM, anciently a town of Britain; 
now Cirencefter, in Gloucefterfhire^ called Corinium by 
Ptolemy 
DUROCORTO'RUM, or Duricortop.a, anciently 
a town of t he Rhctni iu Belgica; now Rheims. 
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DUROPA, f. [fo named in memory of Jo. Phil. Du Roi y 
a phyfician at Brunfvvick, author of Obfervationes Bota- 
nicae, and Hortus Harbeccenfis. ] In botany, a genus of 
the clafs hexandria, order monogynia, natural order ru- 
biaceae, ( JnJf. ) The generic characters are—Calyx: pe- 
rianthium one-leafed, cylindric, truncate, contradted, 
very fhort, fuperior. Corolla: ntonopetalous; tube cy¬ 
lindric ; border length of the tube, fix-parted; divifions 
ovate, fpreading. Stamina: filaments none ; antlierre 
fix, oblong, within the tube. Piftillum : germ inferior; 
ftyle filiform, the length of the tube ; ftigmas two. Pe- 
ricarpium : pome, globular, umbilicate, covered with 
erebl hairs. Seeds very many, neftling, oval, flat, very 
fmooth, incumbent, in a double row.— EJJential CharaElcr. 
Calyx, cylindric, truncate ; corolla, fix-parted ; filaments 
noile ; pome hifpid. 
Duroia eriopila, the only fpecies, is a tree with thick 
unequal branches, hirfute at the end ; leaves terminating, 
oppofite, approximating, many, fubpetioled, a fpan in 
length, ohovate, quiteentire, obtufifh, rib. ed, pubefcent 
above, netted underneath. The flowers are frequently 
abortive ; nay, there are fome genuine male flowers with- 
out any germ. It fliould therefore be referred rather 
to the clafs polyga'mia. Fruit fomewhat larger than 
a turkey’s egg, fpherical, covered very thick with erect 
brown hairs ; it is well-flavoured, and much efteemed at 
Surinam, of which it is a native. 
DUROLE'NUM, anciently a town of the Cantii in Bri¬ 
tain ; now Lenham, in Kent. 
DUROLl'TUM, anciently a town of the Trinobantes; 
now Leiton, on the Ley, in EfTex. 
DU'ROT, a bay on the north fide of the fouth penin- 
fula of the ifland of St. Domingo. 
DUROTRI'GES, anciently a Britifti nation, feated in 
that part of the country which is now called Dorfetfhire. 
DUROU'R’s ISLAND, an ifland in the eaftern Indian 
ocean. Lat. 1.44. S. Ion. 143. 21. E. Greenwich. 
DUR'ROW, a tow'nof Ireland ; fee Castle Dumtow, 
DUR'SEY, an ifland in the Atlantic, about two miles 
long, and half a mile broad, fituated near the fouth-w eft 
coaft of Ireland. Lat. 51. 33.N. Ion. 10. 4. W. Green¬ 
wich. 
DUR'SLEY, a fmall town of Gloucefterfliire, formerly 
remarkable for its extenfive broad-cloth manufactory ; 
and it fti 11 carries on a confiderable trade in that branch 
of bufinefs, and alfo in card-making. Ir is a borough of 
very great antiquity, being one of the five boroughs re¬ 
turned by the fheriff of the county in the reign of Ed¬ 
ward I. but it has long loft the privilege of fending mem¬ 
bers to parliament. It is now governed by a bailiff cholen 
annually. The town gives the title of vifcount to earl 
Berkeley. Here is a handfome market-houfe built in 
1738, of free-ftone ; market on Thurfdays ; and fairs on 
the 6th of May, and 4th of December. The church is 
large, and very ancient, with two aifles and a tower. 
Contiguous to the town is a rock of ftohe, remarkable for 
its extreme durability: the exterior walls of the noble 
caftle of Berkeley were built with it; and, although up¬ 
wards of fix centuries have pafled fince their erection, 
they do not Ihew the leaft appearance'of decay. 
Kingfcot, on the eaft fide of Dudley, is a chapel of 
eafe. Here i.s fuppofed to have been a Roman ftation, 
from a multitude of Roman coins ploughed up (ome years 
ago, befides a large ftatue of ftone, and a Fibula Vjiaria 
of lilver, chequered and enamelled. Ozelworth is on the 
fouth-eaft fide of Dudley ; it is remarkable for the num¬ 
ber of foxes killed in one year, in the'reign of queen Eli¬ 
zabeth, which amounted to 231. Slintbridge is a parifh 
contiguous, twenty miles in contpafs, bounded with the 
Severn and Cam. It poflefles the lingular merit of hav¬ 
ing about 1000 acres of land gained from the Severn. 
DURST, the preterite oi dare. —The Chriftians durjl 
Ijave no images of the Deity, becaufe they would rather 
die than defile themlelves with fuch an impiety, Stillingjl', 
DUR' i AL, a town of France, in tiie department of 
the Mayne and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the 
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