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ratlier longer tlian the corolla, thread-ftaped, divided half 

 way down; ftigraas diftant, obtufe. Perk. Berry ovate, 

 crowned with the withered calyx, of two cells, eafily fepa- 

 rable. Seeds numerous, convex on one fide, concave on the 

 other, winged, inferted into the tranfverfe partition. 



Efl". Ch. Corolla of one petal, funnel-fhaped, four-cleft, 

 acute. Ben-y of two cells, with many winged feeds. 



I. T . guianeiifu . Aubl. t. 42 Native of nioift woods 



in Guiana and Cayenne, flowering, and bearing ripe fruit, 

 nearly all the year. A trailing herbaceous perennial plant, 

 creeping by means of fibrous radicles ; the Jlem and branches 

 round, (lightly downy. Leaves oppofite, ftalked, ovate, 

 flefhy, entire, hairy, an inch and half long, with a pair of 

 jntrafoliaceous_^if^a/ij-. Fhiuers white or blueifti, tliree or 

 four together, in little, axillary, ftalked, folitary heads. 

 Berry blue, with a vifcid juice. Schreber's Bellardia was 

 named in honour of Dr. Charles Louis Bellardi, the co- 

 adjutor of Allioni, and ftill living at Turin. His Appendix ad 

 Floram Pedemonlanam, and his OJprvaziom Botatiichl, prove 

 him an able and obferving botaniil. Bellardia ought to have 

 been noticed b)' one of our predeceffors in its proper place. 

 We fliould adopt it here, in the place of the above faulty 

 name, Tunteinea, were tliere not much doubt of the identity 

 of the plants. Schreber defcribes his as having linear un- 

 equal fegments to the calyx, a hairy or villous obtufe corolla, 

 very ^\OY\.Jlamens, linear anthers, and a nearly globofe cap- 

 fule, not a berry. Neither does he notice a wing to the 

 feeds, which he defcribes as acutely angular, and dotted. 

 Had he not cited Aublet, no one would have fuppofed their 

 genera to belong to each other ; nor does Schreber himfelf 

 decidedly affcrt it. Of his Bellardia nothing is known, ex- 

 cept from his own generic character, becaufe he never pub- 

 liflied a Species Plantaruni, to clear up the obfcurities at- 

 tendant on his new genera. 



TONTAPILLY, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, 

 in the circar of Rajamundry ; 30 miles N.E. of Ra- 

 jamundry. 



TONTECO, a town of Africa, m Bambouk ; 10 miles 

 N. of Combregoudou. 



TONTELEA, in Botany, Aubl. G.uia*. t. 10. See 



TONSELLA. 



TONTI, or ToNTY, in Geography, a river of Canada, 

 ■which runs into lake Erie, nor far from the Orwell. 



TONTINE, a loan raifed on life-annuities, with the 

 benefit of furvivorfhip. - Thus, an annuity after a certain 

 rate of intcreft is granted to a number of fubfcribers, who 

 are divided into clafles according to their ages ; and annually 

 the whole fund of each clafs is fhared among its furvivors, 

 till at laft it falls to one, and on his death it reverts to the 

 power that firft eftablifhed the tontine. The term is de- 

 rived from the name of the inventor. 



TON-TING, in Geography. See Tong-tin-hou. 



TONTON, an African drum, which Pere Labat, in his 

 voyage to Guinea, torn. ii. numbers among the mulical in- 

 ftruments of the Negroes, and which is never ufed but upon 

 the approach of an enemy, or on extraordinary occalions. 

 It feems to furpafs in force the Stenterophonic tube of 

 Alexander the Great ; as it is faid that it can be heard at the 

 diftance of fix or feven miles ! 



TONTORAL, Cape, in Geography, a cape on the coaft 

 of Chili. S. lat. 27° 30'. 



TONTRAVELLORE, a town of Hindooftan, in the 

 circaV of Condapilly ; 25 miles W.N.W. of Mafuhpatam. 



TONVORE, a cape of Scotland, on the N.W. of the 

 ifland of Hay. N. lat. 55° 51'. W. long. 6" 27'. 



TONYES, a town of Mexico, in the province of Cu- 

 Jiican ; 60 miles N.E. of St. Miguel. 



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TONYN's Islands, a clufter of fmall iflands in the 

 Eaft Indian fea, near the S.W. coafl: of the ifland of 

 Celebes. S. lat. 5° 31'. E. long. 119°. 



TONZI, in Ancient Geography, a town of Thrace, on the 

 coaft of the Euxine fea, between ApoUon and Peronticum. 

 Ptol. 



TONZOS, or ToNZUs, atown in the interior of Thrace. 

 Ptol. 



TOOBIGAN, in Geography,?, fmall ifland in the Sooloo 

 Archipelago. N. lat. 6° 14'. E. long. 120° 44'. 



TOOBOUAI Island, one of the Society iflands, in 

 the South Pacific ocean. Its greateft extent, in any direc- 

 tion, exclufive of the reef, is not above five or fix miles.' 

 Small as the ifland is, there are hills in it of a confiderable 

 elevation. At the foot of the hills is a narrow border of flat 

 land, running quite round it, edged with a white fand beach. 

 The hills are covered with grafs, or fome other herbage, ex- 

 cept a few rocky chffs at one part, with patches of trees in- 

 terfperfed to their fummits ; but the plantations are more 

 numerous in fome of the vallies, and the flat border is quite 

 covered with high ilrong trees, whofe diiferent kinds could 

 not be difcerncd, except fome cocoa palms, and a few of the 

 etoa. According to the information of fome men whom 

 captain Cook faw in the canoes, their ifland is ftocked with 

 hogs and fowls, and produces the feveral fruits and roots 

 that are found at the other iflands in this pai-t of the Pacific 

 ocean. This ifland is populous, and the inhabitants are 

 more fedate than the natives of the Society iflands, as well 

 as lefs hofpitahle. Fletcher Chriftian, with his companions, 

 mutineer of the Bounty, attempted to form a fettlement 

 here in the year 1789. They had a difpute with the 

 inlanders, and a fevere engagement, in which one or two of 

 the mutineers were wounded, and many of the natives were 

 killed. Chriftian, after this, left the ifland of Toobouai, and 

 failed to Otahcite, where fome of the crew left him : nine 

 only remaining on board, with fome of the natives, men and 

 women, with thefe Chriftian cut the cable, and put to fea, 

 fince which time he has not been heard of. The language 

 is the fame as that fpoken at Otaheite. S. lat. 23° 25'. 

 E. long. 210° 37'. 



TOODAWAH,atownofPegu;35milesS.ofLundfey. 



TOODIGUNTLA, a town of Hindooftan, in Gol. 

 conda ; 25 miles E. of Damipetta. 



TOODRY, a town of Hindooftan, in Canara, on the 

 coaft ; 2 1 miles S. of Carwar. 



TOOE, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar ; 12 miles E. of 

 Bahar. 



TOOFOA, one of the Friendly iflands, vifible from 

 Annamooka, by means of its height, and a volcano, which 

 alraoft conftantly emitted fraoke, and foraetimes threw up 

 ftones. Its fliores are fteep, and covered with black fand. 

 The rocks are hollow, and in fome places of a columnar 

 form. The mountain, except in fpots that appear .to have 

 been recently burned, is covered with verdure, ftirubs, and 

 trees. The coaft is about five leagues in circuit. To the 

 north-eaft of this ifland, and about two miles diftant, is 

 another of much lefs extent, but of thrice its height, which 

 is called Kao ; it is a mountainous rock of a conical form. 

 Both thefe were difcovered by Tafman, and have been feen 

 by every fubfequent navigator of this group. Captain Cook 

 pafted between them, and had no foundings in the channel 

 by which they were feparated. Each ifland was underftood 

 to be inhabited, but no European had landed upon either, at 

 the time when the mutiny fuddenly occurred in the Bounty 

 two days after the departure of that veffel from Annamooka. 

 Lieutenant Bhgh was forced into a boat with eighteen of his 

 peoprle, when ten leagues S.W. from Toofp? ; he attempted 



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