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Mute. 



Mode of ap- 

 plying th« 

 mute. 



Two necks for 

 Angering. 



Case. 



EAST INDIA BUTTER TREE*. 



3. By means of a mote the performer may change the 

 sound of the instrument, either gradually or instanta- 

 neously, from the loudest of which it is capable to the 

 softest, or the contrary. 



To apply this mute the performer has not the least oc- 

 casion to employ his hand, or stop his performance : all 

 that is required is to press with his arm on a pedal, which is 

 precisely at the place where the arm rests habitually on the 

 instrument, and to increase or diminish this pressure, till 

 the mute produces the desired effect. 



4. The instrument has two necks, each wrth six strings, 

 which are fingered in the same manner as the guitar-lyre. 



5. The case of the instrument, which is indispensably- 

 necessary for its conveyance from place to place, is equally 

 so for playing on it ; because, the performer being obliged 

 to have the left knee raised a little, the better to support the 

 instrument, and to give freedom of movement to the arm, 

 he rests his foot on the box, out of which rises a stand for 

 the music, which may be raised or lowered at pleasure. 

 This stand folds up so as not to increase the size of the 

 case, and adds but little to its weight. 



Generic cha- 

 racter. 



Specific cha- 

 racter. 



X. 



A Botanical and Economical Account of Bassia Butyracea^ 

 or the East India Butter Tree. By W. Roxburgh? 

 M.I>* 



BASSIA BUTYRACEA. 



Polyandria monogynia: 



V^ALYX beneath, four or five leaved. Coral, one pe- 

 talled : border about eight cleft.- Berry superior, with, 

 from one to five seeds. 



Bassia but yr ace a. Roxburgh. 



Calyx five-leaved ; stamens thirty or forty, crowning the 

 subcylindric tube of the corol. 



* From the Asiatic Researches, Vol. VIII. 



Fulmah, 



