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the (Icm; umbels axillary, folitary; fruit globular, with two 

 Icids ill tacli tell. A native of the ifle of Bourbon. 5. A. 

 tiliffolia, Uombeya tilio-foliu. Cav. 1. c. " Leaves cordate, 

 rouiiililh-aci:te, crenate; flowers raceme -cor^'p-.bed, arbo- 

 reous." All the flirub very tomentoft ; leaver fliapcd like 

 tliofc of the common lime-tree, fcvcn-nerved, tomentofe; 

 peduncles axillary, folitary, divided at the end into oppofite 

 horizontal racemes. A native of the ifle of Bourbon. 6. A. 

 tomentofa, Donibeya tomentofa. Cavan. 1. c. " Leaves 

 cordate, roundifli, crenate, tomentofe, with almoft circular 

 veins; flowers umbelled." Stem arboreous branched; the 

 whole tree veiy tomeiitofc; ftipules coriaceous, broad-ovate, 

 acuminate, ciliate, luill-ilcm ciafping; common peduncle 

 very long, forked at the top, and terminated by two umbels; 

 petals roundilh, fickle-fliaped. A native of Madagafcar. 

 7. A. pti!U'!ala, Dombk^ya pundlata. Cavan. 1. c. " Leaves 

 ovate -lanceolate, long, quite entire, tomentofe underneath, 

 rugged with dots on the upper fiirfacc." Trunk about the 

 thicknefs of the human kg or thigh, covered with dark- 

 brown bark; branches alternate, tomentofe; leaves three 

 or four inches long (fometimes crcnulatc or finuate), rounded 

 at the l)aie; flowers on a long axillarv common peduncle, 

 umbelkd, white, but becoming ferruginous by age; pedicels 

 twenty or thirty, one-flowered. A native of the ifle of 

 Bourbon. 8. A. dccarukcra, Dombeya decanlliera. Cavan. 

 1. c. " Leaves ovate-acuminate, repand-crenate, finooth; 

 ftamens five, two-anthered; flowers fmall, umbelled." Stem 

 arborcfcent, with a brown furrowed bark ; leaves alternate, 

 fcattered, four tmies as long as the petioles; the outer calyx 

 confifts of three very fmall brifllcs; corolla fcarcely three lines 

 in diameter; filaments ten, five barren, five fertile; germ 

 five cornered, one feed in each cell of the fruit. A native of 

 Madagafcar. 9. A. h/k//(//(7/(J, Dombeya umbellata. Cavan. I.e. 

 " Leaves cordate, ovate-oblong, acuminate, repaiid fmooth ; 

 flowers umbelled, globular." A tree entirely fmooth, with 

 a brown bark ; leaves longer than the petioles, either repand 

 about the edge, or obloletely and broadly crenate ; common 

 peduncles folitaiy, axillary, on the tops of the branches red- 

 difli, very fmotjjh, terminated by a fingle globofe umbel. A 

 native ot the ifle ot Bourbon, where ropes are made of the 

 bark. 10. A. OTOz/rt, Dombeya ovata. Cavan. I.e. "Leaves 

 ovate, toothed, five-nerved, tomentofe ; Ilyle very fmall." 

 Stem flirubby, branched, covered with a ferruginous nap ; 

 leaves alternate, white underneath, rugged on the upper fur- 

 face, double the length of the petioles ; flipules capillary, 

 tomentole ; peduncles forked at the top, witli a corymb at 

 each divifion ; corolla imall ; petals narrow, roundilh at the 

 end, not fickle-fliaped ; their claws are permanent, and deep- 

 ly ferruginous. Fruit globular, five-cornered, within the 

 fegments of the calyx. A native of the ifle of Bourbon. 

 1 1. A. fernig'mea, Dombeya ferruginea. Cavan. 1. c. 

 " Leaves ovate-oblong, feven-ncrved, ferruginous beneath ; 

 petioles, peduncles, and calyxes tomentofe." Stem arborcf- 

 cent, from eight to ten feet high ; branches covered with a 

 rufous nap ; leaves on the extreme twigs, fcattered alter, 

 nately, acuminate, tooth-ferrulate, tomentofe on the un- 

 der furface ; peduncles double the length of the petiole, 

 forked at the top, with a many-floweitd coiymb on each 

 divifion. This, perhaps, may be a variety of the A. ovata ; 

 the leaves, however, are much broader at the bafc, acuminate, 

 feven-nerved, and veiy much toothed ; whertas in that they 

 are flrictly ovate, five-nerved, and the teeth are dillant. A 

 native of the ifle of Mauritius, and firll difcovered by Com- 

 merfon in 1 769. 



Propagation and' Culture. See Hibiscus and Pentape- 

 TES. 



AssoNiA, or Dombeya Phenkea. See Pentapetes. 



ASSORUS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Macedonia, 

 in Mygdonia. Ptolemy. Alfo, a town of Sicily, feated 

 on a hill to the left of the river Chiyfus. Diod. Sic. 



ASSOS, or AssvM, a fea-poit town of Afia Minor, in 

 the Troas, fortified both by art and nature, according to 

 Strabo. Adls, xx. 13. 



Assos, or Asso, is now a fca-port of Afiatic Turkey, 

 in Natolia, on a gulf of the jTgean fea, to which it gives 

 name, four leagues S. E. from I'roas, and eleven leagues welt 

 ofAdramiti. N. lat. 39° 3S'. E. long. 26° l'. 



Assos, Asos, or AsuM, afmalltownof Crete ■'Ijffos, 



a fmall river of Greece, in the diftrift of Phocis, which ran 

 from N. to S. at the foot of the mountain Edylcon, and 

 joined the Cephifus. 



ASSOUAN, in Geography, near the ancient Syene, » 

 poor village on the eafl; fide of the Nile, with a fmall fort 

 comnianded by an aga of the janizaries, N. lat. 24° o' 45". 

 E. long. 33' 30. This place is called by the Arabs yljhunii, 

 which fignifies enlighleneJ, in allufion as Bruce fuppok'S, to 

 the circumftance of the well mentioned by Pliny (H.N. 

 1. ii. c. 73.), enlightened within by the fun's being direftly 

 over it in June. Bruce's Travels, vol. i. p. 15S. See 



SvENE. 



ASSRUMINA, in Botany, the name given by the peo- 

 ple of Guinea to the flirub whofc kaves they ufe as a cure 

 for the long worms which are found in their flefli in thufe 

 parts of the world ; they only bruife the leaves, and apply 

 a large lump of the mafs to the part where the worm is, and 

 they are eafed at once, without the pain and hazard of draw- 

 ing it out. Phil. Tranf. N' 232. 



ASSULATUS, in Natural Hipry, a fpecies of EcHi- 

 NUS. The fliell is fcutcllate, the Ici-.tels united by traiifverfe 

 futures. Klein, p. 15. 26. /S. Cidaris tefl'ulata of Kkin, p.iC. 

 27. is fiippofed to be a variety of this kind. 



ASSUMPSIT, in Law, denotes a voluntary promife 

 by which a man aflumes and takes upon him to perform, or 

 to pay any thing to another. 



This term comprehends any verbal promife made upon 

 confidcration, and is varioudy exprcfled by the civilians, ac- 

 cording to the nature of the promife : fometimes by padtum ; 

 fometimes by promiflio, pollicitatio, or conllitutum. 



If the promife be to do any explicit aft, it is an cxprefs 

 contraft, as much as any covenant ; and the breach of it is 

 an equal injury. However, the remedy is not cxaftly the 

 fame. Since, inflead of an aftion of covenant, tlice only 

 lies an aftion upon the cafe, for which it is called the ai- 

 fumpfit or undertaking of the defendant ; the failure of 

 performing which is the wrong or injury done to the plain- 

 tiff, the damages of which the jury are to efiimate and fet- 

 tle. As if a builder promifcs, undertakes, or alTumes to 

 Cains, that he will build and cover his houfe within a time 

 limited, and fails to do it ; Cains has an aftion on the cafe 

 againll the builder for this breach of his exprcls promife, 

 undertaking, or ajfumpfit ; and fliall recover a pecuniary fatif- 

 faftion for the injury fuflained by fueh delay. So alfo in 

 cafe of a debt by fimple contraft, if the debtor promifes to 

 pay it and does not, this breach of promife entitles the cre- 

 ditor to his aftion on the cafe, inflead ot being driven to an 

 aflion of debt, 4 Rep. 92. Thus likewife a promilfory 

 note, or note of hand not under feal, to pay money at a 

 day certain, is an exprej's ajfumpfit ; and the payee at common 

 law, or by cullom and ad ot parliament the indorfee, may 

 recover the value of the note in damages, if it remains un- 

 paid. Action on the cafe on affumpfit lies, for not making 

 a good ellate of land fold, according to promife ; not pav- 

 ing money upon a bargain and fale, according to agreement ; 

 not delivering goods promifcd on demand ; lliis is by cxprefs 



ajimpjit. 



