cumference. N. lat. 
GUI 
_ GUIFONI, in Geography, a town of the ifland of Cor- 
fica; 13 miles §. of Corte 
GUIGNAN, an ifland in the Eaft Indian Ocean, near 
the E. coaft of the “ “4 of Samar, about 20 miles in cir- 
', E. long. 125° 56’. 
“GUIGNETTE, i in Petite See Trinca Hypo- 
GUIGNON, oe Peter, in Bip in an eminent 
mufician, born at r7o2, and who eftablifhed himfelf 
“in France, hei he began £6 exercife his profeffion on 
the violoncello ; but he foon quitted that inftrument to devote 
himfelf wholly to the violin, and became fuperior to all the 
mafters who had. preceded him. He acquired fo great a 
reputation, —, in 4733, he was received into the king’s 
cha mber bands, and appointed mufic-mafter to 
the aia Ane madame Adelaide. In 1741, he was in- 
vetted ‘vate the office of roi des violons, king of the violins, 
title afterwards lowered to that of fing of the minftrels. 3 
this saieeiescy. both in England and France, we fhall e 
deavour to trace the origin, fini: and’ abolition elie. 
where. See king of the MINsTREL 
In 1773, Guignon, finding his, fubje@ts turbulent and 
factious, hie refigns his crown, and left future fidlers fhould 
be equally troublefome to future nee ee obtained the 
total abolition of i its power Pad dignit 
is ci-devant monarch, and colebrated artift, died a 
Verfailles, in 1774, Of a paralytic ftroke. aid setae: 
in 1762, from all public-exercife of his profeffion. 
No performer (fays M. Laborde) hada greater bow- 
hand, or drew a better tone from his inftrument. 
“His of was always a gratuitous {chool for all young 
Pa who withed to learn the — anid many of his 
ui 
have become eminent muficia 
gnon was'the firft who ra out airs into duets 
for two performers on'the violin, apart 
Thefe new kinds of double 
cert ie by the author and Mondonville, who sabi 
M lue, tom. iil. 
GUILANDINA, i in Botany, fo named + Linneus, in 
_ Memory of Melchoir pe sea a Pruffian, whofe real 
refumes was Wieland, and who after feveral 
th and died in 1587 or 1589. - Haller 
S. is . 
earliet prt of its kind, appeared 
at Fran fort, in o¢tavo,— 
peiieenene, 
i peg, oblong, rounded, obtufe, 
ble folos were ie or at the Con-° 
; © duet. - fhort little 
tated, but rarely in fo eas a manner. “Eta fur b- 
‘the carried p _ kept in cabinets among hells, 
ne hy Fallopius, afiseouals fucceeded him in the- 
ynonyma” 
m=? ite: rom yank its feed 
Sie Ten om > 
itsleagie'ok the aageee fimb 3 in’ 
Gear for the fornter, re is what 
er eg a little the thartelt, : 
GS WI 
and the lower one rather longeft. Cor. Petals five, inferted 
into the neck of the calyx; the uppermaft roundifh, concave, 
afcending, rather the fhorteft ; the reft oblon 
their forepart, rounded at the extremity, es 
rather reflexed, longer than the calyx, the two 
little longer than the two middle ones. 
ten, awl-fhaped, thicker and moft pe a at their bafe, de. 
cumbent, inferted into the neck of the 
oblong. 
men fuperior, oblong, fomewhat ftalked te thread. 
fhaped, the length of the ftamens ; ftigina fimple, obtufe, 
Peric. Legume rhomboid, compreffed, flightly tumid, 
of one’cell and two valves, its upper ea convex. ee 
few, globofe, flightly compreffed, very 
Et Ch. x of one leaf, Cider Niaged. Petals five, 
inferted into its neck, nearly equal. Legume of two valves 
and one cell, Seeds few, ftony. 
Obf. Schreber, who has Bia ie? followed Lamarck and 
others in He aeey Se from the Linnean Guilandina G. dioica 
and ringa, feet: mMNocLADUS and Hyperan- 
waving) ‘ites that he eh feen only male flowers of the 
Bonduc and Bonducella, and therefore Rs ae they are 
either dioecious or polygamous. Piet pecimens have 
mens and piftil in the fame flowe 
peeks: 
twifted or curved, befet underneath with fcattered folitary” 
hooked prickles ; the leaflets, according to Rumphius,- of 
' four or five fingers’ breadth long and two broad, (it mutt 
always be recolleéted that his figures are Beet it on 
ftalks, ovate, acute, entire, h. wers 
in long, terminal, taper, denfe {pikes or chittens, ofa eet 
yellow, with a long, reflexed, awl-fhaped, downy braétea 
under each of their partial ftalks. Legumes aes or four 
inches — prickly, containing two, three or four feeds,’ 
which are very hard, ‘and fhining, like boys’ she St 
and shed with horizontal ftreaks. Thefe feeds. re often. 
coitivenefs: ‘The natives of Amboyna devo in Shoe ° 
them for feveral fucceffive days, to render sheinfalyes invul- 
erable when goin war, 
2. G. Bon tel, os ys Pl. 545. “(Globuli ma- 
. jores; Rumph. Amb. v. §. 92. t-49. f.1. Caretti; Rheede 
Hort. a, z 5 t. 22. Bon du ch, Pianta Soa 
eeds were brought very 
= ae to Eeops and raifed in hot- beds, but the plants lave 
not log thriven. ‘This differs from the preceding in wie. d 
2 Sad Fades ad shove elliptical ‘heafles, regular! 
: ranked and aT with a pair of ae at the bafe fe of 
at aré but two in each legume, — 
ectly x 
retro is the’ sett wneih of the er age often 
: Lamarck has i 
though not very ace 
