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XABEA, in Geography, a fea-port of Spain, in the pro- 

 vin«e of Valencia, near the coaft of the Mediterranean ; 38 

 miles N.N.E. of Alicant. 



X ABORECTORA, in ^Indent Geo^aphy, a name given 

 by P. Mela to Aborras, a river of Mcfopotamia. 

 XACA, in Geography. See Jaca. 

 XACRE, a cape on the fouth-eall coaft of the ifland of 

 Candia; 18 miles S.E. of Settia. 



XAGUA Bay, a large bay on the fouth coaft of the 

 ifland of Cuba. This is one of the beft ports in the Weft 

 Indies, and is 15 miles in circumference, furrounded with 

 mountains, which break off the force of the winds. N. 

 lat. 22° 10'. W. long. 81° 20'. 



XAINTES, Santos, or AU-Sainls' IJlands, as having 

 been difcovered on that holiday by the Spaniards ; three fmall 

 iflands in the Weft Indies, fituated to the fouth-caft of Guada- 

 loupt. The moft wefterly of them is called Terra dc Bas, or 

 the Low ifland, and the moft eafterly. Terra de Haul, or the 

 High ifland. The third, which lies exaftly in the middle be- 

 tween the other two, feems to be nothing more than a large 

 barren rock, but is of ufe in aflifting to form a very good 

 harbour. The ifland of Terra de Bas is about nine miles 

 in circumference, but the other is larger. Thefe iflands 

 have conftantly a frefti breeze, let the wind blow from what 

 quarter it may : and on the Terra de Bas is a neat wooden 

 church, with two very convenient creeks both for anchor- 

 age and landing. They are about fix miles diftant from 

 Gaudaloupe, and 15 from Mariegalante. N. lat. 15^ 56'. 

 W. long. 61^ 32'. 



XALAPA, a confiderable town of Mexico, or New 

 Spain, in the fertile province of Tlafcala, formerly famous 

 for the fair held on the arrival of the ftated fleets from Eu- 

 rope ; and lince the declared freedom of commerce, a con- 

 fiderable mart for European commodities. It is fituated on 

 the fouthcrn Ikirts of a mountain, in a beautiful climate, the 

 foil being partly clay and partly ftony, while pure waters 

 iffue from a white fand, and fertihze the country. The 

 population confifts of 243 Spanifh families, 182 Meftizos, 

 and 361 Indians. When north winds prevail at Vera Cruz, 

 it always rains at Xalapa ; but the climate is efteemed very 

 healthy. The purging powder of the country is made of 

 the root of a plant, to which the town gives the name of 

 Jalap ; 30 miles E. of Pucbla de los Angelos. N. lat. 

 \<f jo'. W. long. 98° 26'. 



XALISCO, a province of Mexico, in the audience of 

 Guadalajara. It is walhed by the South Pacific ocean on 

 the fouth and weft ; bounded on the eaft by Guadalajara 

 Proper and Mechoacan ; and feparated from Chiametlan on 

 the north, by a narrow ftrip of land belonging to Guadala- 

 jara, and running out into the fea. It is not above fifty 

 leagues in extent either way. It abounds with Indian 

 wheat and filver mines, but has very few cattle of any fort. 

 From this province is brought the oil of the infernal fig- 

 tree, as the Spaniards call it, much ufed in medicine. 



Xalisco, a town of Mexico, which gives name to a 

 province; 9 miles N.W. of Compoftella Nueva. N. lat. 

 21° 25'. W. long. 106^" 26'. 



XALON, a river of Spain, which rifes in a mountain 

 r.eat Medina Celi, and runs into the Ebro, about fix miles 

 above SaragofTa. 



XAMACA, a river of America, which runs into the 

 gulf of Mexico, i3 miles from Vera Cruz. 



XAMBRINA, a town of Spain, in the province of 

 Leon ; 2 miles S.E. of Tordefillas. 



XAMDELLILAH, an Arabian term, ufed as a grace 

 cr thankfgiving after meat. 



The gteateft men of that nation will often call in the 



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meaneft, even the beggars, to eat with them ; who, as 

 foon as they have done, always rife and pronounce this 

 word, which fignifies, God be praifed. Pococke's Egypt, 

 p. 183. 



XAMI, a name given by feme of the old writers to the 

 cerat'ton of the Greeks, or carob-tree. See Ciiarnub. 



XAN, in Geography, a river of the principality of 

 Georgia, which runs into the Kur, 6 miles E. of Gory. 



XANGA, a river of Africa, in the kingdom of Mon- 

 gallo, which runs into the Indian fea, oppofite to the ifland 



of the fame name Alfo, one of the Querimba iflands in 



the Indian fea, near the coaft of Africa. S. lat. 10° 45'. 



XANILA, a town of Fezzan, in the road to Egypt ; 

 140 miles E.N.E. of Mourzouk. 



XANQUE, or Guyapo, a river of Mexico, which 

 runs into the Spanifh Maine, 30 miles W. of Cape 

 Camaron. 



XANTEN, or Santen, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Roer, near the Rhine; 7 miles N.E. of 

 Gueldres. 



XANTHE, in Botany, fo called from |a>5o-, yellow, in 

 allufion to its yellow juice. — Schreb. Gen. 710. Willd. Sp. 

 PI. v. 4. 877. Marti Mill. Dia. v. 4. (Quapoya; Aubl. 

 Guian. 897. Juff. 256. Lamarck Didl. v. 6. 21. llluftr. 

 t. 831.) — Clafs and order, Dhec'ia Monadelphia. Nat. 

 Ord. Gutllfcne, Juff. 



Gen. Ch. Male, Cal. Perianth of one leaf, in five or 

 fix fmall, deep, imbricated, roundifh, concave, acute feg- 

 ments, with a pair of minute oppofite fcales at the bafe. 

 Cor. Petals five, roundifh, fpreading, larger than the calyx. 

 Stam. Filament one, columnar, ercft ; anthers five, two- 

 lobed, forming a peltate concave difk, full of gluten, their 

 under fide burfting, and difcharging the pollen. 



Female, Cal. like that of the male, permanent, inferior. 

 Cor. as in the male. Slam. Filament none ; anthers five, 

 prifmatic, ereft, imperfeft. Pljl. Germen fuperior, roundifti, 

 with five furrows ; ftyle none ; ftigmas five, roundifh, thick, 

 emarginate, feated on the germen. Perk. Capfule fmall, 

 globofe or oval, with five furrows, five cells, and five 

 valves, burfting at the furrows, their membranous parti- 

 tions adhering to the central column. Seeds numerous, 

 oblong, imbedded in the pulp, inferted in a double row upon 

 the five-angled columnar receptacle. 



Obf. It appears that one-fifth is frequently added to 

 the parts of fruttification, in the male as well as female 

 flowers. 



Eff. Ch. Male, Calyx in five deep fegments. Petals 

 five. Filament columnar. Anthers five, two-lobed, form- 

 ing a peltate diflv. 



Female, Calyx and Corolla like the male. Stigmas five, 

 feflile. Capfule of five cells, with many pulpy feeds. 



I. X. fcandens. Twining Xanthe. Willd. n. i. (Qua- 

 poya fcandens ; Aubl. Guian. 898. t. 343.) — Leaves obo- 

 vate, flefhy. Capfule globofe. — Native of the forefts of 

 Guiana, flowering in November. The Jlem is fhrubby, 

 with knotty branches, twining round neighbouring trees. 

 Leaves oppofite, on fhort ftalks, fimple, entire, thick, and 

 fmooth, three or four inches long, with a thick mid-rib, and 

 a fhort blunt point, but no branching veins. Panicles at 

 the ends of the drooping branches, compound, three-forked, 

 fmooth. Floivirs fmall, yellow ; their partial ftalks longer 

 than the calyx. Petals flefhy. Capfule about the fize of 

 a black currant, flefhy, crowned with the black Jligmas all 

 meeting in a point. Seeds red. Every part of the plant, 

 when wounded, difcharges a tranfparent, white, vifcid, re- 

 finous juice. The Indians call this fpecies Quapoy. See 

 Quapoya. 



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