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tumour, the neck of the thigh-bone had been broken within 

 the capfule, and it was ftill in a difiinited ftate. Mr. A. 

 Cooper imputes the man's death not to inflammation, but to 

 the want of circulation in the aneurifmal limb, occafioned in 

 a great meafure by the immenfe fize of the tumour, and the 

 difturbed ftate of the coagula which it contained. He con- 

 ceives, therefore, that, in any future cafe of this kind, the 

 ligature (hould be applied before the fwelling has become 

 very large. Surgical EITays, part i. 



One thing feems proved by this memorable cafe, viz. that 

 the circulation in the lower extremities may continue not- 

 withftanding a fudden ligature on the aorta. Here it did 

 fo in the ricrht leg, and probably would have done fo in the 

 left, had it not been for the obllruttion arifing on that fide 

 from tlie magnitude of the tumour. 



AOTUS, in Botany, fo named by the writer of this 

 article, from a, nvithoiit, and &■?, wlo;, an ear ; becaufe it is 

 elfentially diftinguiflied from PuLTENiEA, (fee that article,) 

 by the want of the two ear -like appendages to its calyx, not 

 to mention other marks hereafter indicated. — Sm. in Sims 

 and Konig's Ann. of Bot. v. i. 504. Brown in Ait. Hort. 

 Kew. V. 3. 14. — Clafs and order, Decandria Monogy/iia. 

 Nat. Ord. PapUionaceic, Linn. Legumhwfis, JufF. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, bell-lhaped, 

 two-lipped, without appeiid.iges ; upper lip of two divari- 

 cated, acute fegments ; lower of three rather longer, more 

 direft ones. Cor. papilionaceous, of five petals ; ftandard 

 inverfely-heartfhaped, afcending, with a linear claw -of its 

 own length ; wings obovate-oblong, fliorter than the ftand- 

 ard, each with an abrupt angle at the upper edge where it 

 joins the claw ; keel as long as the wings, obtufe, of two 

 obovate-oblong, afcending petals, each with a fimilar tooth. 

 ^tam. Filaments ten, feparate, awl-(haped, afcending, nearly 

 equal, fmooth, deciduous ; anthers oval, of two cells. /"//?. 

 Germen roundidi, with the rudiments of two feeds ; ftyle 

 thread-fliaped, parallel to the ftamens, but rather longer, 

 twilled after impregnation, ftigma fimple, bluntifh. Per'ic. 

 Legume nearly orbicular, acute, of one cell and two concave 

 firm valves. Seeds two, elliptical, inferted into the middle 

 of the upper margin of each valve, without any creft or 

 appendage. 



Efl". Ch. Calyx fimple, five-cleft, two-lipped. Corolla 

 papihonaceous ; wings fliorter than the ftandard. Stamens 

 deciduous. Style thread-fhaped. Stigma obtufe. Legume 

 of one cell, and two valves. Seeds two, without a creft. 



Aotus is very nearly allied to PultetKea, and had previoufly 

 been confounded therewith, but befides the want of append- 

 ages to the calyx, and of 3.Jlroph'wlurft, or creft, to tha feeds, 

 which laft difference was firft noted by Mr. Brown, the Jly/e 

 is not awl-ftiaped, but almoft capillary, varioufly twifted as 

 foon as the flower falls, rather fwelling upwards, and the 

 Jfigma is obtufe. The habit of the plant is alfo very diftindt, 

 having nothing hke the chaffy afpeft of a Pu/len<ea ; there 

 are neither bradeas nor Jlipulas ; the leaves are partly oppo- 

 fite, and almoft whorled. Mr. Brown, by giving a fpecific 

 charafter to this Ihrub in Hort. Kew. leads us to prefume 

 that he has found other fpecies of the fame genus ; for he 

 is not one of thofe botanifts who make a diJl'mSion without 

 a difference. We are however acquainted with the following 

 only. 



I. A. vtlloja. Hairy Aotus. Sm. n. i. Tr. of Linn. 

 See. V. 9. 249. Ait. n. I. Curt. Mag. t. 949. (A. fer- 

 ruginea; Labill. Nov. HoU. v. i. 104. t. 132. Pulten^a 

 villofa ; Andr. Repof. t. 309, but not of Willd. Sp. PL 

 V. 3. 507. P. ericoides ; Venten. Malmaif. t. 35.) — Calyx 

 filky, with clofe hairs. Legume ftalked. Seeds rough 

 with minute dots. Leaves rough on the upper fide. Brown. 



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■—Native of New Holl.ind, and Van Diemen's idand. Sent 

 by fir J. Banks, in 1790, to Kew garden, where it flowers 

 in the green-houie, from Aprl^ to June. The Jlem is three 

 feet high, with numerous, round, filky, leafy branches. 

 Leaves fcattered, or imperfeftly whorled, on fiiort hairy 

 ftalks, fpreading, linear, revolute, entire, a half or three- 

 quarters of an inch long ; channelled, and rough with minute 

 points, above; filky beneath. Flowers bright-yellow, axil- 

 lary, on fhort, filky, ruily ftalks, two or three together, 

 numeroufly crowded about the tops of the branches, fo as 

 to form leafy clufters. Legume very hairy, two lines long. 

 The Jlundard of each flower is marked with radiating crim- 

 fon lines, as in the Ddlwynite. 



APARGIA, Schreb. Gen. 527. Willd. Sp. PI. v,3. 

 . 1547. See TiiRlNCiA, at the end of which is given the 

 hiftory of this genus. 



APERTO, Ital., in Mufic, open, oppofed to chiufo, 

 clofed. 



APHELANDRA, in Botany, a genus firft propofed 

 by Mr. Brown, in a note to his Prodromus, to be feparated 

 from JusTiciA. ( See that article. ) The name he has given 

 it is compofed of ai'E\)),-, ^rn^/f, and anij, a male, expreffing 

 the fimple ftrufture, or fingle cell, of the anthers, one of 

 the moft diftinguilhing charafters of this genus. — Brown 

 Prodr. Nov. HoU. v. i. 475, obf. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 4. 

 55. — Clafs and order, Didynamia Angwfpermia. Nat. Ord. 

 Perfonata, Linn. Acanthi, JulT. Acanthacea, Brown. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, in five 

 deep, oblong, unequal, ereft fegments. Cor. of one petal, 

 ringent ; tube much longer than the calyx, incurved, an- 

 gular, gradually fwelling upwards ; limb in two unequal 

 acute lips ; the upper ereft, cloven ; lower revolute, undi- 

 vided. Stam. Filaments four, awl-fhaped, fimple, ereft, 

 inferted into the tube of the corolla, and rather fhorter than 

 its upper lip, parallel, flightly curved, two of them a little 

 the longeft ; anthers incumbent, attached by the back, ob- 

 long, acute at each end, hairy behind, of one cell. Pifl. 

 Germen fuperior, ovate ; ftyle thread-fhaped, the length of 

 the ftamens ; ftigma fimple. Peric. Capfule oblong, taper- 

 ing at the bafe, of two cells and two elaftic compreffed 

 valves, the partition contrary to, and fixed in the middle of, 

 each. Seeds two in each cell, roundifh, each fubtended by 

 a fpinous procefs. 



Eff. Ch. Calyx in five deep unequal fegments. Corolla 

 ringent ; lower lip undivided. Anthers fingle-celled. Cap- 

 fule of two elaftic valves and two cells ; with contrary parti- 

 tions. Seeds fubtended by fpines. 



1. A. crijlata. Denfc-fpiked Aphelandra. Brown in 

 Ait. n. I. (Jufticia criftata ; Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr, v. 3. 

 38. t. 320. J. tetragona ; Vahl Symb. v. 3. 5. En).im, 

 V. I. 118. Willd. Sp. PI. V. I. 85. Ruellia criftata; 

 Andr. Repof. t. 506.) — Leaves eUiptic-oblong, pointed, 

 fmooth on both fides, with hairy veins beneath, Brafteas 

 ovate, entire. Corolla fmooth. — Native of Cayenne and the 

 Caraccas, flov/ering in the ftove throughout Auguft and 

 September. It appears to have been firft brought to Eng- 

 land by the late earl of Seaforth, and flowered at Mr. Lam- 

 bert's in Wiltfliire. The Jlem is fhrubby, three feet high, 

 or more, with oppofite, round, fmooth branches. Leaves 

 oppofite, ftalked, broadly elliptical, acute at each end, 

 fomewhat wavy, dark green, pliant, five or fix inches long, 

 and three broad ; fmooth above, with a reddifh mid-rib, and 

 many fine veins ; the rib and veins only, according to 

 Jacquin, downy beneath. Eloiuers fcarlet, large, fplendid, 

 and extremely numerous, forming denfe quadrangular /pikes, 

 about a fpan long, branched at the bafe, with clofe, ovate, 

 green, or brownilh, fringed, fingle-flowered bradeas. The 



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