HET 
“fame plant has fince bloflomed at Schoenbrun, and is fore 
ok asi but though its bulbs are not rare, we have ne 
ir awe any where elfe. Haller. Bibl. Bot. 
Aikin' s Gen. Bio, eifter’s works. 
I , in ptealy fo named by: Jacquin, in ho- 
‘nour of Dr. Laurence Heiiter; fee that article. Another 
plant’ had received this name from the hand of Linnzus him- 
‘felf, in the Hortus Ch f 5 Er notwithftanding the unfa- 
-vourable difpofition of Hei towards the fexual fyftem, * 
and the Linnzan improvem dies in general; but it was af- 
‘terwards properly reduced to “Polygala, and now ftands as 
Heif 
acq. 
Gen. 214. Schreb. aoe Willd. ° Sp. Pl. v. 2. 579. Mart 
‘Mill. Diet. v.. 2. Jufl-260. Lamarck. Did. v. 3.81. Iluftr. 
t. 354.—Clafs and orders Decandria Monogyma. Nat. 
Holeracee, ‘Linn. Juff.; ‘but we prefume ’to think 
one is not nearer re ur than ihe other, and that ‘Lamarck 
‘has righ tly fuggelted the affinity of this genus to fome of 
Juffieu’s 7erebintatee, in which order we would: ‘place ‘it. 
en. Ch. Cal. Perianth of one leaf, inferior, ‘bell-fhaped, 
‘five-cleft, acute, {mall, permanent; in the fruit enlarged, 
“coloured, with blunted points. Cor. Petals five, ovate, 
‘concave, acute, fpreading. Stam. Filaments ten, flat, ovate, 
: » five of them fhorter than the reft ; anthers 
‘roundifh. Pip Germen roundifh, deprefled ; ort, 
' igma blunt, four-cleft. P 
oo ag enlarged and 
e, with a kernel of 
“the fame alm 
Eff. Ch. Calyx i in five fegments, permanent, ‘inferior. 
on five. — ftanding ‘on the cea coloured 
» bas 
B 
lary. Calyx of = — aie, 
‘Tj preading, with fhallow lobes. i Murtee of dee 
vies ; 
er capfule witha Rn 
HEITER 
y matiy, in a prin 
HET 
tl enlarged, fpre: fearlet, its border in five 
Git, and os i ipa bese: Fruit ovate or cy- 
Hindvieal, ‘blunt, about as long as the calyx, in the centre of 
which it itands. Jacquin fays nothing of its colour, but if 
Plumier’s fynonym be right, the drupa is black. The French 
inhabitants of Mee call it Bois perdrix, Partridge-tree, 
becaufe a kind o eens which they mifname a par- 
nies, is very os of the fru 
. cauhflora.— Leaves Sionisl fomewhat obovate, ta- 
t the bafe. Flowers trom the ftem and nake 
doen at the bale ds into a fhort thick footfall: 
f owers we know nothing. 
feattered, drooping, on-a fhort ftalk, its fete piles: 
eelogted like the Rumclng: but larger, with much deeper. 
egments, which clofe abeutthe dr upa, and whofe edges are . 
folded back. 
3. Hi. wet vifolia.— Leaves ovate, pointed, _ fliining. 
Flowers axillary. Calyx of the fruit widely fpreading, with 
deep ovate lobes. —Difcovered at Sierra Leone by Dr 
s <p e a Dison ee fats tat aE risen te 
om each bud, one-of them. only remaining 
The ‘Tatter 1 is oaer dr 
ian ovate, ihe in the ary ftate, ra- 
avhich are reflexed 
The dried leay es have a bitterifh, 
ther fhorter than the lobes. 
ly 2 
oat of no great thicknefs. 
EIM, ‘in Geography, a town of Ger- 
Suit ity of thefame name, in the circle of the 
e firft e Plumier’s Faicncing into as copy of the Upper Rhine; 
Species Plantarum, and then erafed it. ‘Chere feems to be HEITSB ightfbury, % bo- 
no doubt of this fynonym, though Plumier confoun d, veugh-town and parifh. in the hundred of the fame name, 
one genus with the prefent plant, the Laurus ; ja county of ngland, is ley, ne 
abd taco Which ia ure in] is Nov. Gen. t. 2. a t the bot-. S.W. extremity o! ifbur It is an ancient bo- 
tom.—Heifleria coccinea is ere as an inele- rough by prefcription, and fends two members to parliament. 
¢ branching tree, about 20 feet Thigh The kaves are The frit return was 27 Henry VI. The right of € 
-about fix eS long, alternate, oblong, inclining to is in the burgage-holds, which are about fifty, in number 
ellipti tases. with an oblique point, Pierce rounded at and were till lately the property of the duke of M gh 
‘the bafe, fmooth ing, having a midrib which fends off and fir W. P. A. A’Court,-bart. but the latter, ail 
feveral tranfverfe er eat ay, ea the oo 
fi margin. 
Footflalks fhort and thick, without fipulas. Floqwere es 
‘from fome of the up ft leaves, foli litary, fmall, white 
“their flalks fcarcely is long as thofe of the leaves, € 
when in a fruit. Calyx of the flower fmall 1 aad 
Marlborough tert has the Bo feats in Ee own 
A Maoh hace “contended h st or the 
emprefs Maud, w eee ont with 
crown of England In. the rei svar Hi. be 
longed to Bartholomew lord pre ee im 
