D. elliptfca. CauUt decumbens, curvato -ereftus, teres,
cinereus, glaber.
Folia alterna, petiolata, elliptico - ovata, acuminata,
integra, tenùîsfime multi • nervofa, glabra, pa-
tencia, pollicem lata, palmaria.
Flores paniculati, terminales.
Corolla cylindrica, tubulofa, alba, ungvicularrs.
ObC Similis quidem videtur D. terminal^RuMPH. Herb,
Amb, T. 4. tab. 34, cujus petioli longiores &
corollæ breviores, quod contra in noftra.
D. terminalis: Folia petiolata, ova to-enfiformia, integra,
glabra, multinervia, eredta, fpithamæa usque
fefquipedalia-, pollicem unicutn ad quatuor lata.
Petioli complicati, compresfi.
Panicula patens, amp Sa.
Brattcoe oblongæ, fecaceo - cufpîdatæ , partiales fenfire
minores.
PeduncuU feu rami paniuulae angulati, ftriati.
Pedicelli filiformes, brévisfimi.
Corolla cylindrico-fubcampanulata, alba.
Petioli complicati, 'compresfi.
D. obliqua. Caulis fruticofus, teres, fimplex, glaber, ere-
étus, to&us folds vaginatus, palmaris & ultra.
Folia yaginantia, alterna, approximate, enfiformia,
obliqua, fubfpiralia, integra, glabra, multiftriata,
patula, pollicaria.
Flores terminates, : in panicula alternatim glomerati;
fubfesfiles, albi, globofi.
D. birfuta: Folia petiolata, obovato-oblonga, acuminata,
margins hirfuto, integra, nervofa, fupra villofa,
fubtus glabra, colla birfuta transverfisque ftriis
plurimis, erefta, pedalia, palooam lata.
FTortjm racemus terminalis, totus hirtus.
Corolla, infuniiibuliformes.j
P e t i o l i .è'q’o jtàn te s , hirfuti';. pollicares.
Hæc triandra eft, a Celeb; peregrinatore D. D«
ADAM. A FZE L IO nobiscum benevole com-
municata ; vix tarnen ab hoc Genere feparari videtur,
nifi Genus in plura incerta dilacerandum
foret.
% 5-
Hàbitatio,
Crefcnnt fere omnes fpecies hujus' generis in calidiori-
bus regionibus ut:
filiformis & obliqua in Nova Holland ia in Afia gra-
mini folia.
cr.fata, marginata, cernua, hemiehryfa, lancea & acuminata
in infulis Bourbon & Mauritii.
".Sraco in India orientait.
enfataumbraeuli/era, terminalis, lancea in Java 3
piliptica. in Java & Ceilona,
indivifa & auftralis in Nova Zelandia.
borealis in Terra nova, finu Hudfonis & Canada;
ferrea & terminalis in China,
hirfuta in Sierra Leona Africæ.
Synonymia
Vîdeatur apud Celeb. W ildenovium , in Spec. Tom; 2.
P- 155—?58-
terminalis Javanis dicitur A ndong & lancea-A ndong.
L a c k i .