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idand, before thofe of Macafi'ar and Jjoh! attained their 

 fubleqiicnt c.'k-briiy. It Ilretclies at prcfcnt from Palopa, 

 the capital of the country, to Larompo, having an extent 

 of about 20 leaj^iies along the vvpftern Ihure uf the bay of 

 Boni, and from the otlior.' fide of the city, owr the whole 

 of the S.E. part of Celebes, between Bnggviefs-bay and 

 the li. coail of tlie ifland, as far as the Alforefc will fuffer 

 them inland ; to the \V. it is bounded by Wadjo, and to 

 the N. bv Taradja. The land is fertile in paddee ; it 

 elds likewil'e good iron, and much gold 



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is found in tlie 

 rivers. The firft king mentioned in the records of the 

 Dutch company, and called " Grain Ilaroo," was fvib- 

 dued by the arms of the company, at the fame time with 

 the Macalfars at Bouton. For an account of its difTolute 

 queen, li-e Tanete. 



LOEFUNGIA, in Botany, named by Linnxus in 

 honour of his friend and favourite pupil Peter Loefling, a 

 Swede, who was born in the year 1729. in the province of 

 Gailrikeland. He began to (ludy medicine at the age of 

 16. Hnd from his proficiency in the fcience of Natural 

 Hiftory he afterwards obtained, through the recommenda- 

 tion of Linnxus, the appointment of botaniH to the king of 

 Spain, in wliich capacity he explored tlie botanical treafures 



of South America, where he died Feb. 22, ] 



756. Hi 



name frequently occurs in the writings of his preceptor, 

 ■who publidted at Stockholm, in 175S, a collection of 

 Loefling's letters, and the Latin defcripticns of Spanifh and 

 American plants which he left beliind him, with a biogra- 

 phical preface of his own, in Swedifh. A German tranfla- 

 tion of this volume, by Kblpin, appeared at Berlin in 1766. 

 The inaugural differtation of Loefling on " the buds of 

 trees"' is printed in the Amoenitates jicailsmicrv, v. 2. 182. — 

 Linn. Gen. 24. Schreb. 33. WiUd. Sp. PI. v. i. 191. 

 Mart. Mill. Did. V. 3. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. I. 79. 

 juff. 299. Lamarck lllullr. t. 29. Gfcrln. t. 129. — Clafs 

 and order, Trimulria Monugyma. Nat. Ord. Caryophylla, 

 Linn. Caryophyllejs, JiifT. 



Gen. Cb. Gal. Perianth inferior, of five, ereft, lanceo- 

 late leaves, marked on each lido at the bafe with a fmall 

 tooth, fhai-p-pointed, permanent. Cor. Petals five, very 

 fmall, oblong-ovate, clofed together in the form of a globe. 

 Stam. Filaments three, the length of the corolla ; anthers 

 .•oundilh, twin. Pijl. Germen fupericr, ovate, triangular; 

 flyle ihrcad-fhaped, a little dilated upwards ; ftigma rather 

 obtufe. Ptrlc. Capfule ovate, nearly triangular, of one 

 cell and three valves. Seeds numerous, ovate-oblong. 



Eff. Ch. Calyx of five leaves. Corolla of five petals, 

 very fmall. Capfule of one cell, and three valves. 



1. L. hifpankum. Spanirti Locfliugia. Linn. Sp. PI. 50. 

 Loefl. It. 113. t. I. f. 2. Cavan. Ic. v. 1. 64. t. 94^ — 

 Leaves awl-lhsped, fharp-pointed. Flowers axillary, feifile. 

 — Found on open hills in the neighbourhood of Madrid, 

 and -ther parts of Spain, flowering in June. — Root annual, 

 zig-zag, fmooth. Stems procumbent, fometimes a little af- 

 cending, jointed, round, {lightly piibefcent, vifcid, about 

 two inches long. Lctves in pairs at tlw.- joints of the ftcms, 

 fometimes three or four together. Fkiuers nearly white. 

 Linnxus remarks, that this fpecies approaches in habit to 

 Scleranthus or Hermr.pa. 



2. 1-. hidica. Indian Loeflingia. Willd. n. 2. Retz. Obf. 

 fafc 4. 8. (Pharnacenm depreiTum ; Linn. Mant. 562.) — 

 Leaves oblong. Flowers axillary, cymofe. --^A native of 

 rice fields and dried pools in the Eaft Indies, where it 

 abounds, -according to Konig, in . ': pril and May. — Root 

 very long and branching. Stems numerous, prollrate, about 

 a fpan in length, pubefcent. Leaves two, four or more 

 together at the joints, almoit feffile. Stipuks foUtary, fciall, 



membranaceous. Flowers nearly fi-flile, cinereous, with a 

 t^ifid flyle. I>innxus, who places tliis fptcies in Pharna- 

 ceum, fays that it refembles a Molhigo, and that it puts forth 

 its flowers only in fine weather. Rel/.ius and WilldcnoMr 

 properly make it a Loejl'.ngia, of which author,, the former 

 obferves, that /,. indica has dark-green and keeled calyx- 

 leaves with a broad fcaly margin. The corolla is purple, 

 fmaller than the calyx. The capfule of one cell, with many 

 feed.-. 



LOEILLET, JoH.v, in Biography, a relation of John 

 Baptill Locillet of Ghent, the famous mafter on the com- 

 mon finte, and voluminous compofer for that inftrumcnt. 

 John the younger was a celebrated haiplichord mafter, and 

 performer in the opera band in London, while Corbet was 

 the leader. 



Having a large room in the houfe whicli he occupied in 

 H.irt-ftreet, Covent Garden, he eitabliilied a weekly concert 

 there, which was frequented chiefly by gentlemen perform- 

 ers, who rewarded him liberally for conducing it. Co- 

 relli's concertos were firft performed in England at this 

 concert, where Mr. Needier, at the head of dilettanti 

 players on the violin, was the leader. 



Loeilkt was not only an excellent teacher of the harpfi- 

 chord, but a good compofer for that iidlrument, and a mi- 

 nuet in his leflons, in the key of A minor, which was in 

 great favour with the ladici of that time, from the vidgar 

 pronunciation of Loeillet's name, was long fuppcfcd to have 

 been compofrd by John Baptift Lully, whofe name was 

 prefixed to it in many printed b'joks, nor was the miftakc 

 ever publicly cleared up. 



Loeillet died about the year 1728, after accumulating, by 

 indullry and economy, a fortune of 16,000/. The works 

 which he publillied, though numerous, are now only to be 

 traced in WaKh's old catalogues. 



I^OENEN, in Geography, a town of Holland ; 10 miles 

 S.W. of Naerden. 



LOESDilECHT, a town of Holland ; eight miles S. 

 of Naerden. 



LOESELIA, in Botany, received its name from Lin- 

 nasus, in honour of John Loefel, Profelfor of Medicine at 

 Kbnigfberg in PrufTia, who was born in the year 1607, and 

 died in 1(^55. By the direfiion of our author's will, his 

 fon edited a catalogue of the native plants of PrufTia, which 

 is by no means a defpicable work. It abounds with feveral 

 curious notes, and contains many rare plants which till then 

 were unknown as natives of Pruflia. He had alfo prepared 

 feveral excellent plates, and tliefe, together with his manu- 

 fcripls, partly by the wifli of his Ion to perpetuate his 

 father's fa.me, and partly by royal authority, were after- 

 wards committed to the clurge of his fucceffor, Profeflbr 

 John Gottfched, who compiled from them the Flora Pruf- 

 jica, feu Planta in Regno Prujfis fponte nafcentes, which was 

 publilhed in quarto in 1703. The book is fcarce, hut is 

 frequently cited for the plates. — I,inn. Gen. 317. Royen. 

 L. Bat. 299. Schreb. 41 j. Wiild. Sj). PI. v. 3. 323. Mart. 

 Mill. Did. v. 3. Juir^i33:. Lamarck'Illullr. t. ,27. Gxrtn. 

 t. 62. (Royenia; Hoult MSS.) — Clafs and order, Bi^lyna- 

 mia ylng'tofperuiia. Nat. Ord. Con-volvuli, Jufi. 



Gen. Cli. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, tubular, 

 four-cleft, acute, Ihort, pernianent. Cor. of one petal, 

 unequal ; tube the length of the calyx ; limb in five, ovate- 

 lanceolate, equal fegmcnts, all detlexed towards the lower 

 fide. Stam. Filaments four, the length of the corolla, two 

 of ihcm (horter, all oppofite to the fegmcnts of the petal 

 and reflexed, in a contrary direftiou to the corolla; antjiers 

 fimple. Pyi. Germen fupcrior, ovate ; llyle fimple, placed 

 like the ftainensi ftigma thickifli. Peric. Capfule ovate, 

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