CES 
‘pon one part of - aieeecEsalon in preferenee to the reft, 
fometimes gives mu oS ce to that t part, oe 
fight of the great m maxim, Ae “ the genus Site giv: 
chara &ter, not the char gee the genus. Not ‘ithitandi 
thefe flight defe€ts, the work of Gertner is one aa mar 
an era in botanical fcience, not irecting, but even 
forcing the attention of botanifts i 
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work appeared in 1791, — 500 more genera, on th 
fame plan with the former, in lates, in which the com- 
are treated with, peculiar care and fuccefs, 
preface of this volume is dated April 6, 1791, but 
little more than three months before the death of the author, 
which happened on Hi fourteenth of July 1791, in the 6oth 
year o his age. is faid, though rug ggling for fome 
time preceding with debility aa difeale, o have finifhed a 
defcription and drawing of the Halleria "acide but the even- 
on, to whom he 
$ pr roved worthy of 
inedited works, 
a hae inquiries. Deleuze in 
F Botany Na Ba 93s 
TNERA, in ‘Botany, in honour of Jofeph Gert- 
See the laft article.) Schreb. 290. Willd. 
Hiptage ; Gaertn. v. 2. 169. t 
435+ t. 263. 
i Clafs and onder, rae 1a Monogynia. 
Nat. Ord. Trihilate, Linn. Malighie, Juff. 
Gen. Ch. Ca/. Perianth inferior, i one ne leaf, in five deep, 
oe a {preading, nearly equal fegments, perma- 
nen or. Petals five, ‘ound, large, flattith, nearly 
sen fpreading, “with very fhort are ; their margin jagged 
and fringed, Stam. Filaments ten, bey paarian abe flightly 
i nearly erect, 
gth of 
eir oa 3 nine of them more flender, 1 
corolla; the tenth thicker, the len 
o leffer ines ad- 
ae and the ini afcending. Seed folitary, eens deiti- 
tute of oie 
Eff. h. Calyx i in five deep Givifions. ieee s five, fringed 
and jagge ne ftamen longer than the reft. Capfu 
with four unequal wings, of one cell, rer oe S. 
1. G. racemofa. Vahl Symb. fafc. 3., 58. 
dr. 
=a 
Ind. Orient. v. 2. 238. t. cen "Hort, 
Mal. v. 6. 10g. t. §9.)—Native of the aft Indi, ae the 
only f{pecies known. The /fem is woody and climbing. 
Leaves aa ftalked, laurel-like, elliptic- sblong, ce 
and enti Clufer terminal, erect, of numerous elegant 
flowers, (mewn refembling thofe of the horfe chefnut, 
‘their petals ee _ and one of them efpecially broadly 
This fhrub flowers in India 
cultivated ee ut the coaft of Coromandel, on account 
of the beauty and me of its eae 
man fent a plant to the late lady Amelia Hume, in whofe 
garden it sa lahien in the {pring of cis for the firft time 
probably in rope. 
. GSA in Ancient Geography, a warlike people 
Coro 
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among the Gauls, who are defcribed by Polybius as ready 
to fight for any nation which wo uld pay them ; eeconingly 
their name denotes “ hirelings.”? 
G/ESUM, or Gzsus, a river of Afia Minor, which 
rau between Miletus and ae and difcharged itfelf into 
a marfh, and from atic into the fea. 
» in Geography, a fea-port town cf Naples, in 
the prov pala anciently ¢ ere fo called, ac. 
co rding 2 Virgil, from Aineas’s nurfe It is fituated on 
the point of a neue, and joined to the continent by a 
narrow ifthmus northward, the reit b being bo a ahs the 
fea, fo that it forms a peninfula, Ferd Ara- 
gon, apprifed of its importance, fortified i it with soe8 walls 
anda citadel ; and to thefe other fortifications have been 
a roc 
ws into its 
moats, which are both broad and deep, fo that its entrance 
is defended by armed veflels, and its citadel, built on an emi- 
Its harbour, page| repaired 
nin is good and fecure, and its abounds 
ae fith particularly cae of which He cavear’ is 
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transferred dither after oh ae aceas had ruined Nola in the 
year 956. Its vicinity is pleafant, and the foil very fertile. 
7 Naples. N. lat. 41° 15, E. long. 
CETANO, Sr., a town of New Navarre; 69 miles S. 
of Cafa Crads 
GfETULIA, in Ancient Geography, a country of Afri- 
ca, the fituation and limits of which are not accurately afesr 
tained ; and, indeed, they do not feem to have been always 
ri fame. In Pliny’s jae the Getulians poffeffed a con- 
Srable: part, at leaft, of Tingitania. Feftus Avienus 
fixed their eaftern boundary not far from the weltern ne 
of Str 0 — tha ed 
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the Syrtes. i 
which, according to him, feparated it by Be Ethior la. e 
northern limits of this undefined co untry feem to have been 
contiguous to, and frequently comciding with, the fouthern 
parts Numidia and the Mauritania, and it-could not have 
extended t to any great diftance in the Sahara. Dr. Shaw 
Travels) intimates, that the ee ae Getulia did not reach 
farther to the ealt than the mer idian of Siga, provided that 
however, he fixes fo 
of the diftri& of Zab, ond fe Contant oe 
fix degrees more to the eaftward than Siga. We may here 
obferve that. Guzula, or Gezula, a province of the kingdom 
of Morocco, at the foot of Mount Atlas, has preferved fome 
traces of the ancient Ge em As the Getulians, a 
the time of Jugurtha, led their flocks from paiture t paf- 
ture, living generally in on without any fixed habitation, 
their co ountry will not prefent to view many towns. 
ratus fays, ‘that eel inhabited the interior part of corn 
Abinna, of a3 and confequently by pace them 
with the Pliny alle allows fome of them to have dwelt’ in 
towns. _ PI alfo i aarp that they poffeffed in his time 
eat part of Malfeefylia puleius affiens them fome 
diitridts at leaft of N amidia Pr opria ; but Pliny and’ iss 
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