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DECAN

Volume 17 · 66 words · 1810 Edition

kingdom of Asia, in the peninsula on this side the Ganges, bounded on the south by the kingdom of Bihugar, on the west by the ocean, on the north by Mogulistan, and on the east by the mountains which separate it from Golconda.

Decandra (δέκα, ten, and ἄνης, a husband), Linnaeus's tenth class, comprehending those hermaphrodite plants which bear flowers with ten stamens. See Botany Index.