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reach of ~ es meafures. It has =e Les he- 
reditary, 2: times, as in an inftance kno th 
writer of this Rr it has occurred in two children of the 
fame family. A cafe of congenital ny@alopia, which had 
continued many years without change, and independently of 
an naire is related aA Dr. rican See Med. Ob- 
i 
debili- 
uals . very irritable habit ; 
and is fometimes one gt ies ous fymptoms, called 
nervous, which occur in igteaes al and hypochondriacal pa- 
tients. Moft frequently, however. eems be 
ter, and after them the celebrated Italian furgeon, Scarpa, 
have fhewn, that the difeafe is readily removed by correcting 
id peepee of thefe abdominal vifcera, ale led by the 
ufe of purgatives, after emetics. e Scarpa on the 
Difeafes of the Ryes, tranflated by Briggs, lap. 19.) 
rong e s 
sk pacnine 
every evening, fome practitioners have fuggefted the pro- 
priety of adminifte Peruvian bark, which is pecn- 
harly edi rmittent ers in B 
t change in the o 
termiffions are exclufively confined seal. circum- 
ftances, viz. to the abftraGtion and return of the light. Ac- 
cordingly Scarpa has juftly remarked : “ with ref{pe& to the 
imperfect periodical erie fs, every. practitioner would be dif- 
pofed to believe that the cinchona ought to be the fpecific ; 
experience, however, fa proved the contrary, and con- 
vinced us that this excellent remedy, which is fo efficacious 
in intermittent fe 
aggravates this complai nd renders its attacks more fre- 
uent, of er duration than b - is, on the 
contrary, moft frequently cured in a » by emetics 
fhor 
and internal refolvents, after which comebor ats and bark be- 
come nfeful.’’ 
NYCTA pple in Botany, derived from yuxros 
the flower of the night, becaufe, fays Gerarde, ‘its 
odoriferous and fweet-{melling floures flourifh and fhew Gee 
felves only in the night time, and in the day time looke 
8 
withered and with a ae cheere.”” Linn. Gen. 9. 
aay 12. Willd. Sp. Ie 35: Mart. Mill. Dict. 
t. Hort. Kew. ed.2. v. 1.15. Juff.104. La- 
(Pari ium; Gertn. t.51. Scabrita; 
- 66. App. 819.) Clafs an nd 
Nat. Ord. Sepiarie, Linn. 
miatek iu. t. 6. 
Li Sch 
adcr, "Dian Mesias 
Jofinine Juff. 
en. Ch. i. chiens inferior, of one leaf, tubular, 
eee entire, perman of one petal, falver- 
Shaped ; tube cylindrical, the length of eels limb five- 
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cleft, fpreading, the Hg keep en Stam. Filaments 
entre of ery fhort 3 anthers oblong. 
as long as the tube. Pie yoo Tape, nearly ovate ; 
flyle thread-fhaped, the length rs the tube; ftigmas two, 
acute. Peric. C 
“Obs. The corolla is ufually oe but Schreber has 
feen it with fix, or even feven, a and Linnzus with 
only four. The latter found four 
ff. Ch. Corolla falver-fhaped, with ans fegments. 
Capfule two-celled, margined. Seeds folitary 
Arbor triffis. The So pas tree, or Indian 
Mourner. Linn. Sp. Pl. 8. (Arbor triftis; Cluf. Exot. 
225. 279. Ger. em. 1527. yrto fimilis ; _ Pin. 
ros Manjapumeran; Rheede alab. 
21.)—Native of fandy deferts in the Eaft Indies ; and in- 
troduced at Kew in 1781, by fir Jofeph Banks. This tree 
rifes to the height of more than twenty feet, with thick and 
ady, but widely feattered branches. Trunk from one to 
iameter, _— with an afh-coloured dark. 
Gerarde tells us * there is made of the {plinters of the 
wood certain tooth-picks, and many prety awed for plea- 
fure.”? The flowering branches are ufed in the Eaft for 
ese ee and crowns, and a fragrant water ae & diftilled 
rom the 
Tinie founded his Nyéanthes upon the number of feg- 
ments of the corolla being about eight, without regard to 
the fruit, of which he was in moft cafes ignorant. ecent 
authors eae more propriety refer to Ja/minum all the fpecies 
that have a pulpy fruit ; = divifions of the corolla being 
found vv i in aay 
NycTaNnTH gene » comprifes plants of the 
fhrubby exotic eae one of which the fpecies culti- 
vated is the fquare-ftalked ny€anthes (N. arbor triftis) ; 
but pred {pecies may be cultivated for variet 
Method of Culture.—This plant may be increafed by layers 
and cuttings. The layers may be laid down in the early 
part of the fummer, in the ufual method, being made from 
the young branches, plunging. the pots containing them in a 
bark hot-bed. e cuttings fhould be taken from the 
young fhoots, be planted out at the fame time, and ia 
in the fame mann 
} A ef. 
Thefe plants are very t 
potted tender plants 
LIA Onrarta, formed from wé, night, and terns, 
to perform, feafts in honour of Bacchus; fo called, becaufe 
held in a night t-time. 
rt of the ceremony alee in aearn: through 
the pee ei as i and glafs in rinking 
ut there was no rity unpra¢tifed in a on. 
The i hiet en cslebrated the aye every three years, 
at us ad cee of the {pring. 
THEMERON, NoxOnuseory the natural day. See 
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