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an inch in length. Stipulas large, concuve, moft hairy 

 within, with a taper reflexed point. Flonutr-Jlalks not halt 

 the length of the leaves. Flowers collected into a fort of 

 round head. Bradeas, and legments of the calyx, lanceolate, 

 hairy. Corolla larger than in fome of the foregoing, 

 brownilh-yellow. Two feeds arc perfected in each cell. 



13. R. incana. Silvery-cupped Rondeletia. Swartz Ind. 

 Occ. v. 1. 369.. Willd. n. 11.— Leaves ovato-lanceolate ; 

 rough and hoary beneath. Stalks axillary, (imple, three- 

 flowered. Segments of the calyx ovate, filky on both 



tides Found by profefTor Swartz, from whom we have a 



fpecimen, on calcareous rocky mountains of Jamaica, but 

 rarely. A flinil, two or three feet high, with round, rigid, 

 rough tranches. Leaves about the extremities of the branches, 

 three inches long, fomewhat coriaceous ; fmooth and mining 

 above ; palifh and hairy or downy beneath, with a pro- 

 minent hairy rib and veins. Footjlalks flout, filky, three- 

 quarters of an inch long. Slipulas very fhort, fringed. 

 Flower Jlalhs axillary, oppofite, twice the length of the 

 footfUlks, filky, each bearing three large, nearly feffile, 



flowers, whofe globular germen, and large ovate fegments 

 of the calyx; are entirely clothed with long, denfe, filky 

 hairs ; as are alfo the lanceolate bradeas. 



14. R. hirfuta. Rough Rondeletia. Swartz Ind. Occ. 



v. 1. 371. Willd. n. 12 " Leaves oblong, acute, hairy. 



Stalks axillary, three-forked, lax. Flowers hairy." — Na- 

 tive of bufhy hills, in the fouth part of Jamaica, bloflom- 

 ing in January. A Jhrub fix feet high, with a fmooth 



Jlem, and rough, lax, (lightly comprefTed branches. Leaves 

 on- fhort, hairy, reddifh llalks, oblong, broadifh in the 

 middle, ribbed, veiny, hairy on both fides, pale beneath. 

 Stipulas broad, ovato-lanceolate, long and hairy. Floiuer- 

 fialhs oppofite, (lender, about the length of the leaves, twice 

 three-cleft, lax, hairy. Flowers ilalked, yellowifh, exter- 

 nally hairy. Bradeas minute, linear, acute, hairy. Differs 

 from hirta, n. 3, in having lefs rigid leaves, with lax, not 

 flifi, branches and Jlower-Jialks. Swartz. We have feen no 

 authentic fpecimen ; for one marked hirfuta, by the younger 

 Linnaeus in his herbarium, feema rather to be Swartz's 

 hirta. The descriptions of thefe two fpecies are not at all 

 well contrafted. 



The divilion of this genus into two lections, by the 

 number of the feeds, is better omitted, as it feparates fpecies 

 mod nearly akin, and is befides very uncertain. All have 

 the rudiments of feveral feeds in each cell of the germen, 

 though a greater or lefs number is perfected in fome than 

 in others, or rather perhaps, according to circumllances, in 

 the fame. 



Ron d 1.1. 11 1 \, in Gardening, contains plants of the woody, 

 exotic, (love kind, of which the fpecies cultivated is the 

 American rondeletia (R. americana). 



Method of Culture. — This plant may be iucreafed by 

 lowing the feeds on a moderate hot -bed in the early lpring, 

 and when the plants have attained a little growth they 

 Ihould be removed into leparate pots, being plunged in the 

 bark-bed of tic- Hove, where they are to remain and be 

 managed as other tender exotic plants of a timilar kind. 

 They afford variety in ftove collections. 



RONDENCHE, in Geography, a town of Ruffia, in 

 hi government of Riga ; 28 miles S.W. of Narva. 



ROMDERO Bay, a bay on the N.E. coalt of Antigua. 

 N. lat. 17 15'. W. long. 61° 26'. 



ROND1NE, in Ichthyology, a name by which fome 

 authors have called the milvus, or flying-fifh. 



Rosdink Pe/'e, a name by which fome have called 

 lie hirunda pifcis, or fwallov-tilh, called by others viugil 



tut. 



RONE, in Geography, a (mall ifland near the W. coaft of 

 Scotland. N. lat. 58" 26'. W. long. 4 5;'. 



RONEBY, a town of Sweden, in the province of Blr- 

 kin^en ; 10 miles W. of Carlfcrona. 



RONES, a cape on the W. coaft. of the ifland of Jerf'ey ; 

 6 miles N.N. W. of St. Helice. 



RONGOS, or Pongos, trumpets, or rather French 

 horns, of the kingdom of Loango, in Africa. Thefe in- 

 ffruments are made of ivory, and refemble hunting-horns of 

 the ancients : their widefl diameter at the mouth is an inch 

 and a half, or two inches ; they are of various kinds, and 

 probably ferre for treble and bafe to each other. It 

 is pretended, that many rongos united produce a very har- 

 monious effect. (Supplement to the folio Encyclopedic) 

 The editor of the article forgot that, out of Europe, treble 

 and bafe performing together, except in octaves, is unknown, 

 and that harmonious effects can be no othcrwife produced. 



RONNE, in Geography, a river of France, which rifes 

 about a league N. of Leuze, and runs into the Scheldt, be- 

 tween Tournay and Oudenarde. 



Ronne, or Ronde, a fea-port town of Denmark, in the 

 ifland of Bornholm, the relidence of the governor. The 

 harbour is not deep, but well fortified. 



RONNEBURG, a town of Saxony, in the principality 

 of Altenburg ; 12 miles S.W. of Altenburg. N. lat. 50* 

 48'. E. long. 12° 5'. 



RONNEBY. See Rotxeby. 



RONNEN, a fmall ifland of Denmark, near the N.W. 

 coaft of the ifland of Laland. N. lat. 56^ 5'. E. long. 

 ii° 15'. 



RONNSKAR, a fmall ifland on the W. fide of the 

 gulf of Bothnia. N. lat. 65 3'. E. long. 1 8° 24'.— Alfo, 

 a fmall ifland on the E. fide of the fame gulf. N. lat. 63* 

 29'. E. long. 22° 2'. 



RONO, a fmall ifland on the W. fide of the gulf of 

 Bothnia. N. lat. 63° 5'. E. long. 18° 24'. 



RONOBO, a river of the ifland of Celebes, which run? 

 into Sewa bay, N. lat. 1° 33'. E. long. 120 46'. 



RONOUMENA, a river of Madagafcar, which runs 

 into the lea at Port St. .lame;. 



RONSARD, PETER DE, in Biography, a French poet of 

 confiderablc celebrity, was born in the year 1 5 24, of a 

 noble family, in the Vendomois. lie was educated at the 

 college of Navarre in Paris ; but he quitted his lludies at 

 an early age, and entered into the fervice of the duke of 

 Orleans. From the fervice of this prince he was transferred 

 to that of James V. of Scotland, who had married Mag- 

 dalen of France. With this fovereign he palled two years, 

 partly in Scotland, and partly in England; and then return- 

 ing to France, was again taken into the employment of the 

 duke of Orleans. He accompanied Lazare dli Baif to 

 the diet of Spire, who infpired him with fuch a tafle for 

 the belles lettres, that he applied himfelf with alliduity to 

 the Greek language. He at length entirely devoted hira- 

 felf to poetry, by which he obtained the title of the prince 

 of the poets of his tune. He obtained the firil prize at the 

 floral games of Touloufe, and the ordinary recompenoe 

 being thought unequal to hi ■ merit, he was prelented by the 

 city with -i Minerva of mafly (ilver. He was patroni/.ed 

 by live lueeeiiive kings of France, especially Charles IX., 

 who maintained a poetical correfpondence with him. Mary, 

 queen of Scots, who greatly efteemed him, made him a 

 rich prefent. He had lome benefices conferred upon him, 

 though he was not in prieft's orders ; and he difplaycd great 

 zeal in oppofing thole of the reformed religion, againfl 

 whom he fought, in 1562, at the head of the Vendomois. 

 Like many religious zealots, he made his faith (land in- 

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