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NIORT, a town of France, and capital of the department 
of the Two Sevres, {gated on the river Sevre Niortoife. It 
is divided into two parts, each of which comprehends 7 15 14 
inhabitants, the canton of one including 12,502, and t of 
the other 11,714 inhabitants, ona territory of 21 5 ktometres, 
in 13 communes. o W. long. 0° 
TA, in Botany, a barbarous name ped by ee 
marck and Poiret, from sa Hortus ras _ 
marck Illuftr. t. 299. Poiret in — . Ve 4. 490. 
(Karin-Njoti; Rheede Hort. Malab. v. cae .)—Cl i aa 
order, OGandria Menogynia. Nat. Ord. Gusti ifera, te. 3. 
Cal. os inferior, of one leaf, in four 
nts, permanent. 
equal, oblong, fpreading, broad at the bafe. 
ments eight, inferted into the receptacle, awl-fhaped, equal, 
rather wn ion the coro olla 5 anthers incumbent, arrow- 
fhaped. men fuperior, four-lobed, probably ie 
celled ; fil central, has fhaped, the length of the ea ee ; 
ftigma fim apfule ark ovate, wich a 
oblique point, thic is and woody, of one cell, appaetly 
not burfting. Seed folitary, oval, filling the cavit 
Eff. Ch. Calyx in four rounde oo ments. 
fpreading, much longer than the calyx ermen four- 
fobed. Stigma fimple. Capfule ic, ovate, woody, of 
one ate filled by the folitary feed. 
N. pendula. (N. soe ele and pentapetala ; Poir. 
as Coe Karin- Njoti; Rheede, v. 6 ¢. 18.)—Gathered 
by Commerfon in Madagafcar. Rheede fays his plant 
grows in fandy ground on the coaft of Malabar, as well as in 
Ceylon. 
body, the mene hie and se So we find it in Com- 
merion’s {pe The /eaves in that {pecimen are alterrate, 
on fialks neaely ain 1 inch ie, ages ne, or fomewhat 
obovate, obtule, with a very flight blunt point, entire, 
coriaceous, fmooth, and fhining, four inches lony, and above 
broad, faenithed with one mb, and a multiplicity of 
i i Stipulas none. Flower-ftalks {oli- 
axulary, ufually as long or 
Petals four, 
fever a ae. Partial fa/ks above an 
inch long, angular’, fmooth, lowers = as large as thofe 
of an Orange, to which genus the yeunger Linneus fuf- 
peed this plant might belong. The cae are vellipue- 
oblong, cbtute, foldin rg laterally over each other in the bud, 
Rhevde fays they are on one fide 
bearing an umbel of 
nearly blood-coloured. Stamens orange, with 
i ers as without fmell, the /eaves and 
feed intenfely bitter. Jsamarck’s figure is diminifhed, ex- 
cept the fruit, which agrees with Rheede’s, and is as big as 
a moderate walnut. ave no doubt that both thefe 
authors defcribe the very fame {pecies, though in the Hortus 
aaoeaiae five petals are reprefented, with only as a 
t is weil known that this work cannat b 
plicitly trufted in the latter particular, _ the deleription 
fays the peals are three or four, fometimes 
materials on which M. Poiret has founded ae “sifting 
foecies, feem to us therefore infufficient 
fpecimen agreeing with that of Caner on was fent 
by Kocnig to fir Jofeph Banks, for the Samandara of Her- 
1. 5, and Linn. FL. Z 
¥ 
cites as a fynonym the Nagam, Hort. Mal. v. 6 
which is certainly the Herriviera, fee that article, to 
which all authors have referred the Samandara. It feems 
3T 
He defcribes it as a lofty éree, as thick as a man’s: 
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therefore that Koenig has, in this inftanee, been miftaken> 
The other fynonyms of Linnzus, as mentioning the prefence 
of earn capfules to each flower, indicate the Heritiera and 
not the 
eG pei wah reluctance this barbarous, though not 
outh, name. The genus fhould be inferted near to 
Allopyllas§ in the Linncan fyftem 
Rura aay, a provincial term applied to a 
near {plit-farthing houfewife. 
» in Botany, the Malay name of this plant, being 
unexceptionable as to found, retained b 7 Thunberg for 
the genus. Thunb. A&. Im. 1782. v. 3. 231. Nov. 
Gen. 90. Schreb. 777. Willd. Sp. a v. vi 597. : 
38. Lamarck Illuitr. t. 897. Amboin. 
(Nypa; Rumph. 
6.)—Clafs and order, Glass Monadelphia. 
. 69. t. 16 
Nat. Ord. Palma, Juff. 
Jen. Ch. Male flowers pe poo the female, on the 
fame plant. Cal. nth pro ne. Sheaths oblong, 
oncave, pointed, coriaceous ; Ne. ae larger; clofing 
gvadually u or. als fix, linear, equal, 
exed. Stam. Filament one, thread- thaped, 
ere&t, the length of the ie ; — bier terminating 
he h a = oblon emale flowers terminal. 
in ermen angular, 
ee five. iided), Sigel cineca {mooth; ftyle 
none; ftigma a lateral furrow. eric. Drupas numerous, 
colle&ed into an angular head about cight inches in dia- 
meter; angles acute or obtufe; attenuated below, blunted 
above, {mcoth. 
Eff. Ch. Male, Calyx none. Petals fix. 
fimple. Anthers twelve, combined. Female, Calyx n 
Corolla none. Style none. Stigma a_ lateral Neue 
Drupa he with a fingle feed. 
T. rutica Thunb. Rumph. v.17. t. 16.—Native 
of Tava: and aie of the Eaft Indian iflands. Stem in the 
young plant none, but rifing to fome feet in height, wh 
the palm is grown to maturity. Leav. 
egal 
f 
ed on dichotomous ftalks; females nek Pine 
pee a tine globular hea 
Thunberg informs us that the Indians ufe the leaves of 
this palm for covering houfes and making mats. The 
fruit alfo is efeulent both in a ae ftate and when pre- 
erve 
NIPAL, in Geography. See Nepaut. 
NIPASKEE, a lake of North penn N. lat. 627 10! 
N, a large river of North America, ee 
flowing from the north, difcharges itfelf into lake Superi 
It leads to a tribe of the Chippewas, who inhabit near a 
lake of the fame name, fituated about half-way between lake 
Superior and Albany river. Near itis a fmall river, which, 
juft before it enters the lake, has a perpendicular fall from 
the top of a mountain of 600 feet. 
» a town on the = welt coaft of Hifpaniola ; 
on miles W. of Petite Goa 
NIPHATIS, in Arce “Geography, a mountain of A fia, 
in Armenia, which, according to Pto ee 
ount Taurvs, fouth of mount Abos 
rae of the Tigris, Nae traverfed it by a fubterranean 
paflage of about 25 mile 
IPHON, Va or x Nifon, in Geography, the prin- 
cipal ifland of Japan, which is applied by the Pia to 
the whole of it. It lies north-ealt of the iflands of Kinfiu, 
termed allo Saikokf or the weitern country, and Sikokf. 
. Its 
