LOM 
LOLLIA'NUS SPU'RIUS, a Roman general, pro¬ 
claimed emperor by his foldiers in Gaul, and foon after 
murdered. 
LOLLJE'E, a town of Thibet: no^miles north of 
Gorcah. Lat. 30. 15. N. Ion. 84. 28. E. 
LOL'LiNG,yi The aft of lounging or leaning. 
LOI/LlUS, a companion and tutor of C. Caefar, the 
fon-in-iaw of Tiberius. He ' was conful, and offended 
Auguftus by bis rapacity in the provinces. Horace has 
add re fled two of his epiltles to him. 
LOLLONA'DO, a town of the ifland of Cuba : 146 
miles fouth-weft of Havanna. 
LOTOS, the name of a particular people difperfed 
through tiie province of Yun-nan, in China, diftinft from 
the Chinefe. Tiiey were formerly governed by their own 
Fovereigns ; but, upon Submitting to the emperor of China, 
they obtained peculiar privileges. Thefe people are well 
made, and inured to labour. They have a peculiar lan¬ 
guage of their own, (as hinted under the article Language, 
voi. xii. p. 174.) and a mode of writing which feems to 
be the fame with that of the bonzes of Pegu and Ava, 
Thefe cunning priefts have acquired an influence over the 
Lolos in the wefiern part of Yun-nan, and have intro¬ 
duced among them the worfbip and religious ceremonies 
of their country ; and they have even induced them to 
build large temples of a different architecture from that 
of the Chinefe. The princes of the Lolos are abfolute 
mafters of their fubjefts, and have a right of punifliing 
them, even by death, without waiting for the anfwer of 
the viceroy. Thefe princes have many officers and men 
under their command ; and their militia is compofed of 
cavalry and infantry, who are armed with hows and lances, 
and fometimes mu fleets. The iron and copper mines which 
are lodged in their mountains, enable them to make their 
own armour. Thefe mountains alfo abound with mines 
of gold and (liver. The drefs of the Lolos conflfts of 
plain drawers, a veft of cotton hanging to their knees, 
and a draw hat; their legs are bare, and they wear only 
landals. The women have a long robe, covering the 
whole body down to the feet, above which they tie a fmall 
cloak that reaches no further than the girdle. In this 
drefs they appear on horfeback, at marriage-ceremonies, 
or when they pay vifits, accompanied by the females in 
their train, who are alfo on horfeback, and by feveral do- 
mefiics. Grcfier. 
LQLPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Jyenagur : fifteen miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Jyepour. 
LOM, a river of European Turkey, which runs into 
the Danube near Lomgrad in Bulgaria. 
LOM, a town on the eaft coafl of the ifland of Giloio. 
Lat. o. 16. S. Ion. 128. E. 
LOM-PIN', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province' of Pe-tche-li: twenty-five miles north-ealt 
of Ch untie. 
LOM'ABLEM, or Lom'blem, an ifland in the Eaftern 
Indian Sea, about 120 miles in circumference. Lat. 8. 18.S. 
Ion.123.56. E. 
LO'MAN, a river of England, which rifes in Somer- 
fetfhire, and runs into the Ex at Tiverton in Devonfiiire. 
LOMA'RIA, a town of France, on the ifland of Belle- 
Ifle : thrgj miles fouth-eafl of Le Palais. 
LOMA'TIA,/ [from xi&a, Gr. a border; becaufe the 
feeds are terminated by a bordered ring.] In botany, a 
genus of the clafs tetrandria, order monogynia, natural 
order proteaceae. Brown, 389. The generic charafters 
are—Calyx: none. Corolla: petals four, irregular, dif¬ 
tinft, oblong, obliquely tw ifled toward one fide ; their 
fummits dilated, concave, bearing the ftamens. Neftary : 
three glands at one fide of the bafe of the llalk fupport- 
j.ng the germen. Stamina : filaments four, extremely 
fliort, in the hollows of the petals; anthers roundifh, 
fur.k in the faid hollows. Pifliilum : germen fuperior, 
flalked, half-ovate, ereft; flyie permanent, incurved ; 
ffigma oblique, dilated, roundifh, nearly fiat. Pericar- 
pium: follicle (talked, half-ovate, coriaceous, crowned 
X O 'M 
with the flyie of one cell. Seeds: many, imbricated isr 
two rows, elliptical, comprefled, with a terminal bordered 
wing, vvhofe difk is without veins .-—FJfivtial CharaElar, 
Petals four, irregular, ftamens funk in the cavities of the 
limb ; three glands, on one fide, at the bafe of the ftalk. 
of the germen ; ftigma oblique, fl-attifh ; follicle coriaceous* 
of one cell; feeds many, with a terminal bordered wing. 
The genus is hardly diftinguifhed from Emeothrium, 
which fee, vol.-vi. p. 499, 500. 
Species. 1. Lomatia filaifolia, or cut-leaved lomatia. 
See Emeothrium filaifolium. 
2. Lomatia tinftoria, or colouring lomatia: leaves once 
or twice pinnatifid, or undivided, imooth ; fegments pec¬ 
tinate, fingle-ribbed, almoft veinlefs, bluntifn, pointed ; 
clufters elongated, fmooth, unbranched. Gathered by 
Labillardiere ar.d Brown iti hilly places and fields at Van. 
Diemen’s Land. The ftcfh is fix feet high. Leaves very 
various, ufually very neatly pinnatifid, with numerous, 
parallel, linear-lanceolate, fometimes fubdivided, feg¬ 
ments ; more rarely undivided, flightiy notched at the tip. 
The. fulpllur-coloured powder which covers the feeds, is 
faid by Labillardiere to give out a rofe-coioured dye to 
water. 
3. Lomatia ferruginea, or rufty lomatia : leaves doubly 
pinnatifid, downy ; fegments ovate or lanceolate ; clufters 
fhorter than the leaves. Gathered by Louis Nee at St. 
Carlos de Chiloe, South America, in places occafionally 
overflowed by the fea, flowering in February. The Item 
is ten or twelve feet high, rarely if might ; branches downy. 
Leaves doubly pinnatifid, acute'; the down of the young 
ones rufty, of the old ones grey. Petals red within; yel- 
lowifh-green without. 
4. Lomatia polymorpha, or various-leaved lomatia-s- 
leaves linear lanceolate; entire, toothed, or pinnatifid; 
downy, like the branches and flower-ftalks, beneath-; 
clufters corymbofe, terminal ; corolla fomewhat hairy ; 
piftil very fmooth. Gathered on the fouthern hills of 
Van Diemen’s Land, by Mr. Brown, who conceives this 
fpecies to have been confounded by Labillardiere under 
our.fecond, when he fays “ the leaves of that are fometimes 
befprinkled at their back with fliort rufous down.’’ Two 
varieties of L. polymorpha are indicated : one whole 
leaves ar* undivided, their downinefs grey, and their 
feed-vefl'els but half an inch long; the other with gene¬ 
rally cut or pinnatifid leaves, rufty underneath, and their 
feed-vefl'els near an inch in length. 
5. Lomatia ilicifolia, or ilex-leaved lomatia: leaves ob¬ 
long-ovate, acute, with fine fpinous teeth, reticulated, 
quite fmooth, as well as their footftalks ; clufters elon¬ 
gated, terminal. Native of barren fields at the tides-of 
hills on the fouthern coafl of New Holland, near Port 
Phillip, where Mr. Brown gathered it, after the flowers 
were fallen. 
6. Lomatia longifolia. or long-leaved lomatia.: leaves 
linear-lanceolate, elongated, fmooth, diftantly ferrated ; 
clufters axillary; flower-ftalks and corolla rather hairy ; 
piftil very fmooth. Gathered by Mr. David Burton, as 
well as Mr. Brown, on the ltony banks of rivers and ri¬ 
vulets near Port Jackfon. This is a branched bufliy fhrub, 
with angular young branches, clothed with rufty hairs, as 
are alfo the flower-ftalks, braftes, and in f'ome degree the 
flowers. The leaves are numerous, alternate, on fliort 
broadifh ftalks, lanceolate, acute, veiny, three or four 
inches long, about half an inch broad, fmooth, except 
the lower portion of their rib at the upper fide; fh apply 
and diftantly ferrated upwards, tapering and moltly entire 
in their lower half. 
7. Lomatia dentata, or toothed lomatia : leaves oval, 
with tooth-like ferratures, fmooth, as well as their foot- 
flalks; clufters lateral, fliort ; corolla hairy ; germen 
downy. Native of woods and groves in Chili. 
8. Lomatia obliqua, or oblique lomatia : leaves ovate, 
ferrated, fmooth ; clufters axillary; flower-ftalks and corolla 
hairy ; ftigma deciduous. Found on hills in the provinces 
of Chili and Pucbacuy. Linn. Trxwf. vol. x. 
LOJVIA'ZY, 
