Doyle
SIR ARTHUR CONAN, a DRACENA romance; "The Stark - Munro Letters (1895); "Uncle Bernac" (1897); "The Tragedy of the Korosko" (1898); "Songs of Action" (1898); "Sir Nigel" (1906); "Songs of the Road" (1911); "A Lost SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE World" (1912); "Valley of Fear" (1915); "His Last Bow" (1918); "History of the Great War" (1918-1919), etc. DRACÆNA, a genus of Liliacex, tribe Asparageæ. Formerly, the genus was so defined as to include nearly or quite 30 species. The well-known D. draco, or dragon-tree, requires to be studied in its native country, the Canary Islands. Commencing as an unbranched DRACONTIUM draco furnishes one of the resins called dragon's-blood. The tree called D. Terminalis, mentioned by Lindley and others as furnishing the Ti plant of the Sandwich Islands, was next named Cordyline terminalis, and is now denominated Calodracon terminalis. DRACHENFELS (drächenfels) (Dragon's Rock), a peak of the range called the Siebengebirge, on the right bank of the Rhine, 8 miles S. E. of Bonn, Prussia. It has an elevation of 1,056 . feet.
DRACHMA (drak'mä), DRACHM (dram), or DRAM, a silver coin, the unit of the money system in ancient Greece. It varied in value in different parts of Greece and at different times, but always remained the 6000th part of the talent, and 100th part of the mina, and was divided into six obols. The Attic drachma is estimated as equivalent to a French franc, or 19.3c in United States gold. The drachma (originally "a handful") was also the name of a weight, and 100 drachmas made a mina (nearly one pound) in weight, as in money.