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MAAR, a fmtill ifland in the Eaft Indian fca, near the 

 South coall of the idand of Coram. S. lat. 3 30'. E. 

 long. T3 25'. 



MAARABAI, aharbour on the W. coaft of the ifland 

 of Ulietea, in the South Pacific ocean. S. lat. 16 53'. 

 W. long. I ji^ 27'. 



MAARRA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the govern- 

 ment of Aleppo; the refidence of an aga ; 45 miles 

 S.S E. of Aleppo 



MAAS DiHK, in Bigraphy, a painter, born at Haerlem 

 in 16)6. He at firll painted Hill life, after that he iludied 

 with and i.Tiitated Berchcm, but is bell known by pifturcs 

 of battles, proceffions, and cavalcades of horfes, fomewhat 

 in the Ilyle of Vandcr Meulcn, though not wrought fo free 

 as the works of tiiat art id. 



There were two other painters of this nam-, Arnold van 

 Maas, a difciple of Teniers, who died young, and Nicholas 

 Maas, who was born at Dort in !6?2, and was educated in 

 the fchool of Rembrandt. He pratlil'ed portrait painting 

 with confiderable fuccefs. He lived to the age of 61, and 

 died in 1693. 



MAASEYCK, ir. Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Lower Meui'e, and chief place of a can- 

 ton, in the diftrift of Ruren-.onde. The place contains 

 2205, and the canton 14,704 inhabitants, on a territory cf 

 2)7-i kiiiometres, in iS communes. 



Maas IN, a town on the W. coaft of the ifland of 

 Leyta. N. lat. 10° 1 2'. E. long. 1 24^ 49'. 



MAASS, in Commerce. See Mass. 



MAAT, a fuperficial meafure of land in Holland, con- 

 taining 500 fquare ruthes, of which 6co are equal to a mor- 

 gen or acre. A fingle fquare ruthe contains 169 fquare 

 feet, each foot being =121 fquare inches ;= 124; Englilh 

 inches. 



MAATTAN, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Bahar; 34 miles N.N.E. of Durbunga. 



M.AATZ, Nicholas, in Biography, an eminent German 

 organ-builder in the iixteentli century, celebrated by Prsto- 

 rias, ^nd in Werckmeifter's organ-gruning. rediv. In 1543 

 he erefted an organ at Stralfund with 43 ftops, and after- 

 wards was engaged in the fervice of the king of Denmark. 



MAB. See" Mo A B. 



MAB.A, in Botany, is the vernacular name of this genus 

 amongft the iflanders of the South Seas. It was firft de- 

 fcribed by Forller, and afterwards taken up by Linnaeus, 

 Schreber, and other authors. Forft. Gen. 61. Linn. 

 Suppl. 6j-. Schreb. 678. Mart. Mill. Diet. V. 3., Jiiff. 418. 

 Lamarck Ilhiftr. t. §03. — Ciafs and order, Diccc'm Triari- 

 dr'ta. Nat. Ord. uncertain. 



Gen. Ch. Male, Cal. Perianth inferior, cloven half way 

 down into three actite, villofe fegments. Cor. of one petal, 

 tubular, hairy on the outfide ; tube cylindrical, longer than 

 the calyx ; iimb in three, ovate, thickifli, ereft divifions. 

 Slam. Filaments three, thread-fiiapod, (horter than the calyx; 

 anthers ereft, ovate. Pjjl. Rudiment globofe, nearly fefllle 

 in the midft of the flower. — Female, Cal. Perianth inferior, 

 permanent, as in the male. Cor. and Pijl. unknown. Perk. 

 Drupa fuperior, ovate-oblong, of tifro cells, each containing 

 two oblong, triangular feeds or nuts, fomev/hat convex at 

 their back, flat on both lides. 



EfT. Ch. Male, Calyx three- cleft. Corolla externally 

 hairy ; its limb three-cleft. Female, Calyx as in the male. 

 Drupa fuperior, of tv^o cells. 



\.M. eUipt'ica. Forll. Gen. t. 61. L!nn. Syft. Veg. 

 rd. 14. 881. Suppl. 426.— A native of the Frieiidly 

 Iflaiids, more particularly of Tonga Tabu and Namoka. — 

 This is a jlrub v;hofe general herbage is estreme'y fmooth, 



its young (hoots and early leaves alone being hairy. Leavet 

 alternate, on fliort footlhilks, elliptical, veined, very finooth. 

 Stalks axillary, fliort, mollly three-flowered. Flo-Mcrs fmal', 

 and curious as Linnxus remarks for having the outlide of 

 the calyx and corolla extremely hairy. 



Forilcr, in his work on efculent plants, p. 54, mentions 

 another fpecics, or variety, of this genus, which he calls 

 Maba major ; the fruit of which is three times as big as that 

 of elliptica, the kernels tough and infipid. The fame author 

 fays that the natives eat the nuts of it, and that they were 

 offered for falc to our people 



M.ABANOWKA, in Geography, a town of Poland, in 

 Volhynia ; 12 miles S. of Berdiczow. 



^LABBY, a kind of wine made from potatoes. It is 

 faid to be ufed in Barbadoe?. 



MABEA, in Boljnw is derived from the Caribee name 

 of this plant, Ph'ir'i Male. Aublet firll defrrihcd the genu3 

 in his Plantx Gui'incnfes, and fays it is called Bo'is a Calumet 

 by the French, bccaufe the negroes ufc its fmaller branches 

 as pipes for fmoaking. Aubl. Gviian. 867. Schreb. 641. 

 Willd. Sp. PI. V. 4. 404. Mart. Mill. Di£t. v. 3. Jufl". 388. 

 Lamarck Illuftr. t. 773. — Ciafs and order, Aloncceia Poly- 

 atidr'ia. Nat. Ord. Tricocc^, Linn. Euphorbia, Juff. 



Gen. Oi. Male, Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, 

 fivc-toothcd, acute. Cor. none. Stam. Filaments from 

 nine to twelve, inferted into the bottom of the calyx ; 

 anthers roundiili. — Female, Cal. Perianth of one leaf, 

 ereft, five-toothed, acute. Cor. none. PiJl. Germen fu- 

 perior, oblong, fomewhat t'riafigular, longer than the calyx j 

 ilyle long ; flig r.as three, thread-fliaped, revolute. Perk. 

 Capfule enclofed in a thick coat, roundifli, of three lobes 

 and three cells, each cell two-valved, burlling with ehlti- 

 city. Seeds fulitary, roundifli, reddifli, variegated with 

 grey fpots. 



lifl'. Ch. Male, Calyx five-toothed. Corolla none.- 

 Stamens from nine to twelve inferted into the calyx.— Fe- 

 male, Calyx five-toothed. Corolla none. Stigmas three. 

 Capfule three-lobed, of three cells. Seeds folitary. 



Obf, Jufliii remarks that in the d('fcription of the fem.ale 

 flowers of 71/rt/'M inllead of "a fingte Ilyle," it fliould rather 

 be " ftyles three, clofely united or glued into one." 



1. M. Piriri. Aubl. Gijian. t. 334. f. i. — Leaves 

 ovate-oblong, attenuated at the bafe, pointed.— Found in 

 Guiana and Cayenne, where it flowered and bore fruit in 

 May. — The trunk of this plant rifes to about five feet in 

 height, and puts forth numerous, twiggy branches very long, 

 Ipreading and entangling themfelves among the neighbouring 

 trees, covered with an a!h-coloured bark. Leaves alternate,, 

 on fliort footftalks, entire, green above, whitifli beneath. 

 Stipulas two, long, narrow, deciduous. Floiuers copioiis, 

 in long panicles ; the males three on a common ftal.k, wtth 

 two glands and a bractca at the bafe: female flowers beneath 

 the male, folitary. Every part of the plant when wounded 

 abounds with a mdky fecretion. 



2. M. Taquart. Aubl. Guian, t. 334. f. -i. — Leaves 

 oblong, roimded at each end, pointed, fomewhat heart- 

 fhaped at the bafe. — Native of Gui?.na, flowering with the 

 la!l. — This_yZi;oi diffeps from the lall in having the harh of 

 its trunk and branches of a reddifli colour. The leaves are 

 larger, lets elongated, and terminated by a fliort point,- 

 curioufly veined with red tmderneath. The fruit is alio 

 larger, but in other refpedls it entirely accords with the 

 p.'^cceding. 



MABER, in Geography, a towm of Perfia, in Chufiftan ;. 

 48 miles S.S.W. of Sutler. 



MABERIA, a lake of Africa, in the country of Jin~ 

 ba!a, which fee ; the fame wiih the lake of Dibbic; formed 



by 



