NIS 
tufe, ered, dilated Saatas {preading in the fore part. 
s. Stam. Filaments ten, 
Seeds folitary in each ae Kidney-thaped, feldom 
more than one perfeéted each le 
Calyx with ‘five aor “Stamens all connected. 
or 
within, the upper minating in 
wing 
weak branches require fupport. 
long, alternate, ftalked, compofe 
with an odd one, of elliptic-oblong, aoineed: “entire vets 
the terminal one rather the largeft, two and a r three 
inches in length ; all on fhort, partial ftalks, thin, Rinoeth 
with one rib and feveral tran{verfe veins ; ining above ; 
ing. 
N pals _ Rufty Niffolia. _ 
and November. 
ru 
aia the flalks and calyx covered with rufty 
vio olet-calou ured. Legume downy, the fize of the Taft, but 
lefs falcate. The natives call this plant Quinata. The ‘bark 
of the trunk exudes a red Weegee altringent gum ; pro- 
bably like that of Prerocarpus Dra 
uticofa. cane ubby Niffolia. Linn. Sp. Pl. gg2. 
Hort. Vind. v. 2. 
- 
Sac Amer. 198 t. 179. f. 44. 
167. Ait. fee. “Kew. ed 1. v. 3. 6.—Stem fhrubby, 
ute Clufters whorled, leafy. Leaves fmooth.—Ga- 
Jac wins in woods and bufhy places at Car- 
in September. Lord Petre is faid to 
have cultivated this plant in 1766. Linneus had it in his 
ftove, climbing to a great extent, but never epee 
Jacquin obferved the fame at Vienna, but after 15 y 
bloflomed. The aves fomewhat refemble the firit ee 
but are not half fo large. The flowers compofe long, pen- 
dulous, whorled, partly leafy cluffers, at the ends of the 
branches, and are variegated with yellow and crimfon, 
Legume about an inch long, with a rounded, curved, veiny 
or Nazawa, in Geography, a oye of 
wing. 
NISSUWA, 
80 miles S.W. of Maf- 
Arabia, in the province of Oman; 
cat. 
NISUS, in Ornithology, a name by which many authors 
NIT 
call the accipiter fringillavius, or {parrow-hawk. See FALco 
UUs. 
Nisus is alfo a name ufed by fome old naturalifts for the 
haliaetus, or aguila marina, Sai in Englith the /éa-eagle, 
or Rie See Faxco Ofifrag 
CHOU, in Geogra aie a river which rifes in a 
ue of ‘'hibet, and runs into the Burrampooter, at 
Ghergong. 
NITCUDY, a river of Hindooftan, which runs into 
the a Fo miles E. of Oudighir: 
EDUL in Zoology, the ae ee See 
Myoxus Nitela. 
NITH, in Geography, a 
pa ng 
river of Scotland, which rifes 
A refhir ire, and 
of ground is rich in coals, 
and nee ao 3 its foil i is a — highly cultivated, 
though it is now 
m fome remains of o 
deer or cattle for the duke of Queenfbury, w sped Lag eie 
is, and whofe caitle of a per ftands The 
mouth of he river is in N. lat. 55° 2!, W.lo 2h 
H 5 in n Bigraply, an hiforian o inth 
fto 
of Angilbert, abbot of St. Riquier, 
century, was the 
and of 
much a ed to Louis 
le oo on likewise . a fon, Charles the ‘Bald, 
king of Fra By this prince he was deputed in the 
ear 840 to his ‘brother, the emperor Lothaire, in order to 
accommodate the ae between them: in 842 he was 
one of the commiffioners of Charles in regulating the par- 
tition territory with Louis of Germany. The want of 
fuccefs in endeavouring to an peace between thefe bro-~ 
thers difgufted him with the court, from which he retired, 
and is thought to have embraced the monaftic life in the 
abbey of St. Riquier, though it has been afferted by others 
that he continued to ferve in the army, and was only buried 
in that monaftery. Nithard is known in the literary world 
as the author of a valuable work, containing the hiltory of 
the divifions between the fons of Lou is le Debonnaire, i in four 
and the 
fourth is loft. It was publifhed in 1594 by M. Pithou in 
his «¢ Annalium et Hiftoriz Francorum Scriptores, &c.’’ The 
ftyle of the work is obfcure and embarrafled, but the nar- 
rative is methodical, and the author was well informed of 
the faéis which he relates. It has fince been tranflated by 
Duchefne and Bouquet in their Colleftion of French Hif- 
torians. It was tranflated into Bae by Coufin in his 
« Hiftory of the Weftern Em 
NITHERED, in pee oes 
fignify perifhing with cold. 
NITIDULA, in Zoology, a genus of infects of the 
order Coleoptera, of which the generic charaéter is as 
follows: antennz clavate, the club folid ; hells age ae 
a provincial word ufed to 
latter only ten. 
Fabricius. The infe€&is are chiefly inhabitants of Fares 
a few of them of South America, and fome are com- 
mon 
