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queiltly, the fins and enormities, that were committed during 

 this interval, were in a great meafure excufable, and could 

 not merit the fevered difplays of the divine juftice. This 

 idle fiftion met with no indulgence either from the Men- 

 nonites, who excluded its inventor from their communion, 

 or from the magiftrates of Groningen, who banifhed him 

 from the city. In Eaft Friefland he drew after him a con- 

 fiderable number of difciples, whofe defcendants ftill fubfift 

 in the neighbourhood of Groningen, Friefland, and alfo in 

 Lithuania and Pruflia, and have their own rehgious affem- 

 blies, feparate from thofe of the other Mennonites. They 

 re-baptize all who leave other Chriftian churches to embrace 

 their communion : they ftudioudy avoid every appearance 

 of elegance or ornament ; fufFering their beards to grow to 

 an uncommon length, and their hair to lie uncombed over 

 their fhoulders : their countenances are marked with melan- 

 choly ; and their houfes only adapted to anfwer the demands 

 of neceffity. Their infpeftors or bifhops, whom they dif- 

 tinguifh from the minifters whofe office is to teach, are 

 chofen by an affembly compofed of all the congregations of 

 the feft. The ceremony of walhing the feet of ftrangcrs is 

 confidered by them as a rite of divine inftitution. They 

 carefully avoid even the afpeft of learning and fcience, and 

 thus prevent all attempts to alter or modify their rehgious 

 difcipline. Mofheim's Eccl. Hift. vol. v. 8vo. 



UCLES, in Geography, a town of Spain, in New Caf- 

 tile. In 1 1 08, a battle was fought near this place between 

 the Chriftians and the Moors, in which the former were de- 

 feated with great lofs ; 20 miles S.W. of Huete. 



UCO, a town of Chili ; 9 miles E.S.E. of St. Yago. 

 UCRIA, a town of Sicily, in the valley of Demona ; 

 8 miles W.S.W. of Pati. 



UCRIANA, in Botany, fo called by Willdenow, in 

 honour of Signer Bernardi di Ucria, a dilUnguilhed botaniil 

 of Palermo — Willd. Sp. PI. v. i. 961. (Tocoyena; 

 Aubl. Guian. 131. .lufT. 201. Lamarck Illuttr. t. 163.) 

 — Clafs and order, Pentandrla Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Rii- 

 biacen:, Juff. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth fuperior, of one leaf, (hort, 

 cup-fliaped, with five angles, and five fmall, ereft, acute 

 teeth, permanent. Cor. of one petal, tubular; tube ex- 

 tremely long and flender, cylindrical, pervious ; limb bell- 

 fhaped, with five rather ihort, ovate, acute, equal, flightly 

 fpreading, marginal fegments. Slam. Filaments five, very 

 (hort, inferted into the limb between the fegments ; an- 

 thers incumbent, oblong, pointed, of two cells. Pijl. 

 Germen inferior, elliptical ; ftyle the length of the tube 

 of the corolla, thread-lhaped ; fwelling and hairy at the 

 top ; fligma of two rounded lobes. Peric. Berry ellip- 

 tical, flefliy, of two cells, crowned by the permanent 

 calyx. .Scc(/f numerous, roundifh, inferted into the middle 

 of the partition at each fide, and furrounded with vifcid 

 pulp. 



Eff. Ch. Calyx fuperior, with five teeth, permanent. 

 Corolla with a very long cylindrical tube, and five-cleft, 

 bell-fliaped limb. Anthers nearly feffile. Style club- 

 fhaped, hairy. Stigma of two flat lobes. Berry of two 

 cells, with many feeds. 



I. \5. fpeciofa. Willd. n. i. (Tocoyena longiflora ; 

 Aubl. t. 50.) — Native of woods in Guiana, bearing flowers 

 as well as fruit in Auguft. Stem flirubby, fimple, about 

 three feet high, obtufcly quadrangular, leafy. Leaves 

 oppofite, ftalked, fifteen inches long, lanceolate, acute, en- 

 tire, fmooth, contratled at the bafe, with one rib and many 

 tranfverfe veins. Slipulas in pairs, intrafoliaceous, ovate. 

 Flotoers about fourteen, crowded at the top of the ftem, 

 feflile, oppofite, ereft, very fragrant, white, with a yel- 

 VoL. XXXVl. 



lowilh tube, nine inches and a half long, the thicknefs of a 

 goofe -quill. Calyx very fmall. Berry yellow, an inch in 

 length. 



This plant comes very near to GarJeniu, or at leaft to 

 T\\\xr\hsr g' i Rothmannia. (See Gardenia.) We do not 

 profefs to have had fufScient opportunities of comparing 

 them and their allies, to form an accurate judgment. Will- 

 denow has changed the fpecific name without any authority 

 or reafon. 



UCUBIS, in /Indent Geography, a town of Spain, in 

 Bcetica. 



UDA, in Geography, a river of Ruffia, which runs into 

 the Vehka, 12 miles N.W. of Onegka, in the government 

 of Pflcov. — Alfo, a river of Ruffia, which joins tlie Tchiuna, 



N. lat. 55" jo'. E. long. 99® 22' Alfo, a river of Ruffia, 



which runs into the Selenga, near Verch Udinlk. — Alfo, a 

 river of Ruffia, which runs into the fea of Ochotz, N. lat. 

 5S°IS'- E. long. .36-44'. 



UDACENSES, in Ancient Geography, mountains of 

 Afia, in Corduena, fouth of the lake Arfifi'a, lat. 37° 30'. 

 UDAL. See Odhal. 



UDASSA, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Goondwana'; 12 miles N.W. of Nagpour. 



UDAWANTANAGUR, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Bahar ; 5 miles S.S.W. of Arrah. 



UDDALAKA, in Hindoo Mythology, is the name 

 foiTietimes given to a theologian, who is faid to be the fon 

 of Aruna, the charioteer of the fun. He is not often 

 read of. Refpefting his parent, who correfponds with 

 the Aurora of weftern fable, notice will be found under 

 our article SuBYA, the common name of the Hindoo 

 Phoebus. 



In the theogonies of the Puranas (fee Purana), when 

 defcribing the procefs of churning the ocean, as mentioned 

 in our article Kurmavatara, a goddefs, named Jyeflita, 

 was produced. She is deemed the goddefs of poverty and 

 misfortune, and having rofe from the fea earlier than 

 Lakfhmi, the goddefs of riches and fortune, is called her 

 elder fifter. Vilhnu, enamoured of the latter, wifhed to 

 efpoufe her ; but flie objefted, faying her elder fifter, agree- 

 ably to the injunftions of the Veda, ought to be married 

 firft. And this we may remark, in paffing, is a rule in 

 force at this day, though not invariably obferved. Viflinu, 

 after much difficulty, prevailed on Uddalaka the Riflii, who 

 was unmarried, to take the undefirable damfel to wife ; and 

 Sagara, her father, fealed the nuptial ceremony by pouring 

 water into the hands of the Riflii. (See Sacjara.) Jyefhta, 

 like Lakflimi, is called the daughter of the ocean, and is 

 celebrated as being ever faithful to her confort. She is 

 fometimes called Sreflita. 



Under the article Rishi will be found an account of the 

 holy men fo defignated. One of them taking the goddefs 

 of poverty to wife, means, we may fuppofe, the ufual pro- 

 feffion of poverty by pious perfons. It was no fmall facri- 

 fice of comfort to be linked to fuch a rib : for Jyeflita is 

 defcribed to have aiifen in black garments, with yellow hair, 

 red eyes, wanting many teeth, thofe remaining of repelhng 

 appearance, her tongue loUing out of her month, pot- 

 bellied, &c. &c. ; fo that gods and demons were amazed at 

 the fight of fuch a figure. Such a one is defcribed, from 

 an image in the Eaft India Houfe, in our article Kali. 

 Her younger fifter, on the contrary, is defcribed as fuper- 

 latively fafcinating, but fickle ; being a perfonification of 

 Fortune. 



UDDEN, in Geography, a town of Arabia, in the pro- 

 vince of Yemen ; 44 miles E.S.E. of Zebid. N. lat. 13° 

 58'. E. long. 43° 50'. 



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