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n. 6. — " Leaves lanceolate-ovate, cluderec. Flowcr-llalks 

 aggregate, tingle-flowered, verj- fliort. Berries with one 

 feed." — Native of Jamaica. A ilill more doubtful /i-ora 

 than the laft, or rather a Jhritb of a diftinct genus. Dr. 

 Wright, to whom we are obhgcd for a fpecimen, obferves 

 that " the Jlamcns are in the bottom of the corolla ; the k'rry 

 white, fmall, fweet, with a fingle comprefTed feed." — The 

 fmall box-like L-a-oes, and denfe tufts oi fowers from lateral 

 buds, are quite foreign to this gsnus, as is the fvveiiing tube 

 of the corolla. 



\. fqfckulala, Sw. Prodr. 30, is now by that author 

 himfetfi-enioved to C!:o,ml:a, l"l. Ind. Occ. v. i. 2jS. 



How far the Pavctta of authors, or any of the fpecics 

 ranged under it, may be referable to Ixora, we are not at 

 prefcnt competent to determine, but we are well allured that 

 their generi-J characters require inveftigation. S. 



IxORA, in Gardening, comprehends plants of the (lirubby, 

 flowering, exotic kind-;, of which the fpecies moftly culti- 

 vated are, the fcarlet ixora (I. coccinea) ; and the white 

 ixora (1. alba\ 



Method of Culture. — Thefe plants may be increafed by 

 feeds, when they can be procured from the countries where 

 they grow naturally, as they do "not pcrfed them in this 

 cliniate. They fltould be fown in £mall pots as foon as they 

 an-ive, and be plunged into a hot-bed when they arrive in 

 the autumn or winter feafons, the pots being plunged in the 

 tan-bed in the Hove ; but when they come in the fpring, it 

 is bed to plunge them in a tan-bed under frames. The ieeds 

 fometimes come up in about fix weeks, if they are quite 

 frelh ; otherwife tlicy lie in the ground four or live months,^ 

 or longer. The earth ibould therefore not be thrown out of 

 the pots till there are no hopes of their growing. When 

 the plants tome up, and are fit to remove, they Ihould be 

 each planted in a feparate imall pot, tilled with light earth, 

 being prcferved in the green-houfe or ttove. 



They may ulfo be increafed by cuttings, which (hould be 

 planted during the fummer months, in fmall pots, and 

 plunged into a moderate hot-bed, covering them clofe either 

 with bell or hand glafl'es, to exclude the external air, (hading 

 them from the fun in the heat of the day, until they have 

 put out good root?, when they ihould be parted, and each 

 put into a feparate pot, treating them as the feedling plants. 

 Mr. Curtis thmks it probable, that thefe plants are lefs tender 

 than is fuppofed. 



They afiord variety among other ftove or green-houfe 

 plants. 



IX WORTH, in Geography, a town of England, in the 

 county of Suffolk, with a weekly market on Friday ; 78 

 miles N.N.E. of London. 



lYAR, in Chronology, the fecond month of the ecclc- 

 fiHltical Jcvvilh year, a.jfwering to part of our April and 

 May. 



JYENAGUR, or Joi.vACLR, called alio Jyepcur and 

 Jaepour, in Geography, a circar or province of Hindoollan, 

 fituatcd S. of the Mewat. The capital of this circar is 

 Jaepour or Jaynagur; 70 miles E.N. E. of Agimere. N. 

 lat. 26" 58'. E. long. 26 9'. The raja of Jaepour, called 

 Jefling, has erefted two oblervatories, one in his newly built 

 capital of Jaepour, which is about a league from Umbeer, 

 or Ambeer, the ancient capital, the other in one of the 

 luburbs of Delhi. At tlie former obfervatory father Claud 



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Eoudier, at the raiah's requeft, made fome obfervations fit 

 1732 ; and probably, by the afllftance of the fame r^ah, at 

 Agra and Delhi. 



JYEPOUR, a town of Hindoollan, in the circar of 

 Cattack ; i6 miles N.E. of Cattack. 



JYTEPOUR, a town of Hindoottan, in Bundelcund ; 

 iS miles N.E. of Chatterpour. 



JYVASKYLA, a town of Sweden, in the government 

 of Wafa ; 120 miles S.E. of Wafa. 



IZENDICK, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Scheldt, and chief place of a canton, in the diftricl of 

 L'Eclufe. The place contains 1121, and the canton 5001 

 inhabitants, on a territory of ii2i kiliometres, in five com- 

 munes. 



IZER, a town of x^frica, in the weftern part of the 

 country of Berdoa. 



IZIGINSK, a town of Ruffia, in the government of J 

 Irkutflc, on the river Izigin, about 15 miles from its mouth, i 

 It is defended by an enclofure of palifades, and wooden 

 baftions, erefted in piles at the four angles. Thefe baftions 

 are provided with cannon, and a Yariety of military (lores. 

 The governor's houfe is defended by a conftant guard. The 

 houfes are conftrufted of wood, low, and having a regular 

 front. The number of inhabitants is about 5 or 600, who 

 are either merchants, or in the fervice of government. The 

 commerce conlifts of furs, and the fldnsofrein deer. N. lat. 

 63 10'. E. long. i^() 14'. 



IZI UK, a town of Rulfia, in the government of Tobolllc, 

 on the Irtit'ch ; 240 miles E.S.E. of Tobol(l<. 



IZIUM, a town of Ruifia, in the government of Char- 

 kov, on the river Douetz ; 64 miles S.E. ofCharkov.. 



IZQUITENANGO, a town of Mexico, in the-province 

 of Chiapa. 



IZTICHUILOTLI, in Natural Hiftory, the American 

 name of a Hone found in New Spain, and fome other places ; 

 it is very hard, of a beautiful black, and takes a fine pohdi. 

 The Americans are very fond of it as a gem, and wear it by 

 way of ornament. 



De Laet mentions an American ftone in his poffedion, 

 which was cut by the Indians into a flat oval plate, and was 

 of a beautiful black, but with two round fpots of a filvery 

 white. He fuppofes this to have been the uterinus lapis, 

 and probably it was either that ftone, or of the fpecies here 

 mentioned. 



IZTICPASO-QUERZALIZTLI, the name given 

 by the natives of fome parts ol America, to a flone famous 

 for ils virtues in curing colic, and many other difeafes, ex- 

 ternally applied. It isof a beautiful green colour, and is by 

 Ximenes fuppofed a coarfe fpecies of emerald ; but is more 

 properly a very fine kind of lapis nephriticus, of a pale green 

 colour, very hard, and more pellucid than the other fpecies 

 of that Hone, but yet always thewing that grcafy look on 

 being polifhed, which charafterizes all the nephritic tlones. 

 It is ufually found in large maffes, and the Indians cut it 

 into flat pieces, which they apply to the navel in the colic, 

 and in other difeafes to the part affeiSed, and fuppofe it has 

 great power in promoting a difcharge of the noxious hu- 

 mours. 



IZTLI, the American name of a fpecies of flone, of 

 which the natives made their weapons of war, &c. before 

 they knew the ufe of iron. It is called by De Lut aad 

 other authors, lapis novacutarum. 



