L U D 



L U D 



with fpinous teeth, but in the adult one much larger, and en- 

 tire. — JuiT: 34J. Lamarck Dift. v. 3. 612. Illuftr. 

 t. 4^6. Wilid. Sp. PI. V. 2. 1129.— Clafs and order, Po/y- 

 anJr'ui Mono^yma. Nat. Ord. Rofacet, Ju(l'. 



Gan. Cti. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, in from 

 fo;ir to fevcn deep, nearly equal, roundifh, fprcading, 

 {ringed fegments, permanent. Cor. none. Stam. Filaments 

 iiumc-rous, thread-(haped, inferted into the receptacle, twice 

 or thrice the length of tiie calyx ; anthers roundidi, of two 

 lobes. Pijl. Germen fuperior, fcffiie, ovate ; ftyle co- 

 lumnar, fcarcely fo long as the (lamens ; ftigma obtufe, 

 throe or four-cleft, more or lefs deeply. Per'ic. Berry dry, 

 globole, tipped with the permanent ftyle, and ilanding on 

 tie refltxed, deformed, permanent calyx, of one cell. Seeds 

 nu;nerouS, fomewhat angular. 



Eff. Ch. Calyx in ieveral deep fegments. Corolla none. 

 Siigma three or four-cleft. Berry dry, fuperior, of one 

 cell, with many feeds. 



Obi. This genus is evidently moft nearly allied to Prock'ia, 

 and wherever the latter is placed, in a natural or artificial 

 lyilem, this muft go along witli it. Both feem to belong to 

 the Icofandrta, but they have been univerfallv clafTi-d in Po- 

 lj:intl>u!. Jacquin indeed aflerts that the ftameus of his Ludia 

 tiiberciilala are inferted into the receptacle ; but, on the other 

 hand, the Proch'ia Inte^rifoliu, Willd. Sp. PI. v. 2. 1 2 14, is 

 as truly icofandrous as the ftrawberry or any other plant can 

 poflibly be, though Lamarck's figure, C. 465. f. 2, does not 

 expreis it. Hu has, moreover, made the ferratiires of the 

 leaves too ftrong, they being very (hallow in the original. 



I. L. hcterophylhi. Lamarck n. i. t. 466. f. I, 2. — 

 Leaves of the adult (hrub obovate, coriaceous, fhining ; of 

 the young one fharply toothed. Stigma flightly notched. — 

 Gathered by Commerfon in the. ifland of Mauritius, where 

 it is called Boh Jans ecorce, or tree without bark. Lamarck 

 delcribes and figures the young (hrub with fmall roundifh 

 /eaves, fumiflied with ftrong fpinons teeth, fomewhat like 

 Qjtercus cocdfera, or Malfigbia cocc'ifcra. Jiiffien alfo relates 

 the fame. We have feen no fpecimens in this ftate. Our's 

 is an adult one, with coriaceous, obovate, obtufe or emargi- 

 nate, entire, alternate leaves, an inch or an inch and half 

 long, broad, veiny, and ihining, paler beneath, on ftrong 

 footftalks, half an inch in length ; fee Lamarck's fig. i. 

 We find no_y?/^;;/rtj. The Jlo'zvers are axillary, fohtary or in 

 pairs, on fliort, thick, fcarred ftalks, with numerous, mi- 

 nute, imbricated,- roundifh concave braHeas at the bafe of the 

 Halks. The rfl/)'.r is green, finely downy. 5to«raj long and 

 flender. Style ihort, eredt and thick, with a flightly notched, 

 very little enlarged, Jligma- 



- 2. L. tnyrt'tfolia. Lamarck n. 2. t. 466. f. 3. — Leaves 

 ovate, nearly entire. Style fomewhat curved. Stigma with 



three notches Native of the ide of Bourbon. — This is 



v/hat Juflieu intends when he fays the leaves of the increafing 

 Jhrub (in Lutlia) are like myrtle or box, and entire ; as how- 

 ever the fpecimens are in flower, Lamarck judged them to 

 be arrived at perfection, and a diftinft ipccies from the 

 above; efpecially as thejlyle is fomewhat incurved, and the 

 ftigma has only three notches, inftead of four. We are to- 

 tally unable to form any decided opinion on the fubject. 

 The leaves of the prcfent plant are much fmallcr, thinner, and 

 generally more pointed than in the former ; but we perceive 

 here and there among them rudiments of teeth, and miiuite 

 Ipines, as if they were in » progrefTive ilate from one 

 (liape to tlie other. Neither arc the differences indicated in 

 thejryle zndjligma very (Iriking or decided. ' We are there- 

 fore moll inchned to adopt the opinion of Juflieu, that the 

 prefent is only the advancing, or firft -flowering, ftate of tlie 



above very extraordinary fpecies. We have moreover a fpe- 

 cimen, gathered by Commerfon in Madagafcar, which is 

 e\'rdently intermediate in the form, margin, and texture of 

 its leaves, betwixt this myrtifolia and the adult heterophylla. 



j. L. feJfiUflora. Lamarck n. 3. (L. tuberculata ; 

 Jacq. Hort Schoenbr. v. 1. 59. t. 1 12.) —Leaves elliptic, 

 lanceolate. Stigma deeply three-cleft. — Native of tlie ifland 

 of Mauritius. It flowered under Jacquin's obfervation, in 

 the Itove at Schoeubrun, in June and July, and formed im- 

 perfeft fruit, which he thought did not agree with Juffimi's 

 charafter, and which Willd^.-now ha.«, from his figure, 

 defcribed as being, in this fpecies, a berry of three cells, with 

 folitary feeds. But we prelumc nothing can be judged from 

 fuch an abortion. \Ve ihould have preferred Jacquin's fpe- 

 citic name to Lamarck's, as the flowers are rarely feffile, had 

 it not been equally applicable to both the former. This is a 

 fmall tree, with drooping, fubdivided branches. Leaves 

 fcattered, (talked, more or lefs elliptical, but rather irre- 

 gular in fhape, coriaceous, veiny, fmooth and Ihining, both 

 lldes nearly of the lame hue. /V'owwj axillary, folitary; ia 

 our fpecimen nearly as much ftalked as in the above. Calyx 

 all over very downv. Germen large, and rather elevated. 

 Style divided, almolt half v.-ay down, into three blunt cloven 

 ftjgmas. 



LUDITZ, in Geography, a'town of Bohemia, in the cir- 

 cle of Saatz. 



LUDLOW, Edmu'N'd, in Biography, a diftinguiftied 

 leader of the repubhcan party in the civil wars of Charles I., 

 fon of fir Henry Ludlow, knight, was born about the year 

 1620, and received his academical education at Trinity col- 

 lege, Oxford, whence he removed to the Tc-mple to lludy 

 the laws and conftitution of his country. His father was 

 reprefentative for Wlltdiire in the Long parliament of 1640, 

 and having joined the party in oppofition to the court mea- 

 fures, Edmund adopted the fame principles, and entered into 

 a miHtary alTociation among the ftudents of law, with whom 

 he joined the army as one of the life-guards of the earl of 

 Ellex. In this fituation he was prefent at the battle of Edge- 

 hill, in which it appears that he endured much perlonal fa- 

 tigue and fuffering. Speaking of the night after ths 

 battle, he fay.s, " No man nor horfe got any meat that night, 

 and I had touched none fince the Saturday before ; (this was 

 Monday,) neither could I find my fervant, v/ho had my 

 cloak, fo that having nothing to keep me warm but a fuit of 

 iron, I was obliged to wtlk about all night, which proved 

 very cold by reafon of a fiiarp froft." And he farther adds, 

 " when I got meat, I could fcarcely eat it, my jaws, for want 

 of ufe, having loft a'moft their natural faculty." Soon after 

 this, Ludiow raifed a troop of horfe, which he commanded 

 at the liege of Wardour caftle. Of this fortrefs, when 

 taken, he was made governor, and he held it ten months 

 againll all the efforts of the king's party, till it was battered 

 to ruins. He was taken prifoner on its furrender, but was 

 foon exchanged, and then appointed by the parliament Ihe- 

 riff of the county of AVilts. He tock a commiffion un- 

 der fir William Waller, was prefent at the fecond battle of 

 Newbury, and at fcveral other important actions, in which 

 he difplayed equal valour and good conduft. When the 

 leaders of the prcfbyterian party were throvi-n out of power 

 by the felf-dcnying ordinance, Ludlow feceded with them, 

 and remained without public employment till he was chpfen, 

 in 1645, knight of the thire for the county of Wilts, in the 

 place of his father, who died two years before. At this pe- 

 riod the plans of Cromwell began to be developed, and 

 Ludlow was one of thofe who oppofed them with the greateil 

 firmnefs and opennefs. He appears to have afted with prin- 



4 eiple. 



