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fans ecorce, or tree without hark. Lamarck defcribes and 
figures the young ihrub with fmall roundifti leaves, fur- 
rtifhed with ftrong fpinous teeth, fomewhat like Quercus 
coccifera, or Malpigia coccifera. Jufiieu alio relates the 
fame. The flowers are axillary, folitary or in pairs, on 
Ihort thick fcarred ftalks, with numerous minute imbri¬ 
cated roundift) concave brafteas at the bale of the ftalks ; 
the calyx is green, finely downy ; ftamens long and (len¬ 
der : ftyle fliort, ereft and thick. 
2. Ludia myrtifolia : leaves ovate, nearly entire : ftyle 
fomewhat curved ; ftigma with three notches. Native of 
the Ifle of Bourbon. This is what Jufiieu intends when 
he fays the leaves of the increafing fhrub are like myrtle 
or box, and entire; as however the fpecimens are in 
flower, Lamarck judged them to be arrived at perfedfion, 
and a diftinft fpecies from the above ; efpecially as the 
flyle is fomewhat incurved, and the ftigma has only three 
notches, inltead of four. The leaves of the prefent plant 
are much fmaller,thinner,and generally more pointed, than 
in the former; but we perceive here and there among them 
rudiments of teeth, and minute fpines, as if they were in a 
progreflive ftate from one ftiape to the other. Neither are 
the differences indicated in the ftyle and ftigma very ftriking 
or decided. We are therefore tnoft inclined to adopt the 
opinion of Jufiieu, that the prefent is only the advancing, or 
firft-flowering, (fate of the above very extraordinary fpecies. 
3. Ludia lefiiliflora : leaves elliptic-lanceolate : ftigma 
deeply three-cleft. Native of the ifland of Mauritius. It 
flowered under Jacquin’s obfervation, in the Itove at 
Schoenbrun in June and July, and formed imperfeft fruit, 
which he thought did not agree with Jufiicu’s charafter, 
and which Wilidenow has, from his figure, defcribed as 
being, in this fpecies, a berry of three cells, with folitary 
feeds. But we prefume nothing Can be judged from fucli 
an abortion. This is a fmall tree, with drooping fubdivided 
branches. Leaves fcattered, (talked, more or iefs ellipti¬ 
cal, but rather irregular in ftiape, coriaceous, v-einy, fmooth, 
and fhining, both lides nearly of the fame hue. Flowers 
axillary, folitary ; calyx all over very downy. 
LU'DIBLE, adj. [/ udo , Lat. to play.] Apt to play. 
LUDIB'RIOUS, adj. Reproachful, fharneful. Scott. 
LU'DIBUND, adj. Full of play. Scott. 
LU'DICROUS, adj. [ ludicer , Lat.] Burlefque ; merry ; 
fportive; exciting laughter.—Plutarch quotes this initance 
of Homer’s judgmenr, in doling a ludicrous fcene with de¬ 
cency and inltrudtion. Broome. 
LU'DICROUSLY, adv. Sportively; in burlefque; in 
a manner that may excite laughter.—Cicero ludicroufy 
defcribes Cato as endeavouring to adt in the commonwealth 
upon the fchool-paradoxes, which exercifed the wits, of the 
junior (Indents in the Stoic philofophy. Burke. 
LU'DICROUSNESS,/! Burlefque ; fportivenefs; merry 
caft or manner ; ridicuioufnefs. 
LUDIF'ICABLE, adj. [from the Lat. Indus, a play, 
and/ado, to make.] Capable of making (ports ; fuited 
to diverlions. Bailey. 
LUDIF'ICATE, v.a. To mock, to deceive, to fruf- 
trate. Bailey. 
LUDIFICA'TION, f. The adt of mocking, or making 
fport with another. 
LU'DIM, the fon of Mizraim. Gen. x. 13. Jofephus 
affirmed that the defcendants of Ludim had been long 
extindt, having been deftroyed in tlte Ethiopian wars. 
The Jerufalem paraph raft tranfiates Ludim, “the inhabit¬ 
ants of the Mareotis, part of Egypt;” but Bochart main¬ 
tains, that we Ihould read Mereotis, or the land of Meroe. 
The paraphraft Jonathan tranfiates it, “ thofe of the can¬ 
ton of Neut, or Naut, in Egypt;” the Arabic, “ the inha¬ 
bitants of Tenezus, near Peiufium.” Ezekiel places the 
Ludim with Phut and Pharas, or perhaps Pathras, Thefe 
people were in Egypt. But it is not eafy to (how exaftly 
•where the Ludim dwelt. 
LU'DINWORTH, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
©f Saxe Lauenburg : five miles fouth-weft of Ottendorf. 
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LUDISER'RUD, a river of Perfia, which runs Int« 
Mngrau at Maru-errud. 
LU'DITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Saatz. 
LU'DIUS, a celebrated painter, lived in the reign of 
Auguftus Caefar, and excelled in grand compolitions. 
He was the firft who painted the fronts of houles in the 
ftreets of Rome ; which he beautified with great variety of 
landfcapes, and many other fubjecls. 
LUIFLEY, a village in Sufiex, weft of Pevenfey 
Marfti, or Level. 
LUD LOW, a market-town in the county of Salop. 
It (lands on an eminence at the jundtion of the rivers 
Teme and Corve, in a fertile and picturefque dirt rift, and 
commands a variety of beautiful profpefts. The ancient 
Britifti name of this place was Dinan, alfo Llys Twyfog, or 
the Prince’s Court. Hence it is luppofed to have been 
the refidence of Come prince of the country, prior to the 
fubjeftion of Wales by Edward I. This town extends 
about a miie in length, and in its broadeft part is fomewhat 
more than half a mile in that direftion. It w as formerly 
furrounded by a wall, Come part of which is (fill (handing, 
but in a ftate of great dilapidation. Towers were placed at 
certain diftances; and there were formerly feven gates, of 
which only one now remains. The ftreets are moldy wide, 
and well paved, and lie in a diverging and inclined direc¬ 
tion from the higheft or central part of the town. The 
lioufes, in general, prefent rather an elegant appearance, 
and are mpre regularly dilpofed than in molt inland towns 
of the fame antiquity. Gloves conllitute the principal 
manufacture; betides which, however, there is a conli- 
derable trade in the tanning, timber, and cabinet-making, 
lines. A number of perfons are likewife employed in the 
various branches of mechanifm. There are four markets 
during the week ; but the molt important one is held on 
Monday, and is well fupplied with every article neceffary 
for the fupport of man. 
Ludlow was incorporated by charter in the reign of 
Edward IV. The government is now vefted in a recorder, 
two bailiffs, two capital juttices, twelve aldermen, twen¬ 
ty-rive common councilmen, a town-clerk, a coroner, and 
leveral other inferior oificers. The election of the bailiffs 
is ufually attended with a degree of magnificence and 
fplendour far furpalfing the fame ceremony in other towns 
of limilar extent. The quarter-feflions are held here be¬ 
fore the recorder and jufhces of the town, who, in former 
times, had the power of inflifting capital punilhtnents ; 
but, the recorders of late not being barrillers at law, all 
perfons liable to be tried for capital offences are removed 
by habeas corpus to the county gaol. Here is held weekly, 
every Tuefday, a court of record of judicature, in which 
court the recorder and bailiffs fit as judges. L'tdlow 
fends two members to parliament. The right of eleftion 
is in all the refident common burgeffes, as well as the 
twelve aldermen, and twenty-five comrnon-councilaien. 
The fons of burgeffes of Ludiow, and thofe that marry 
the daughters ot burgeffes, have a right to be made bur- 
gefles of the (aid borough ; and every perfon having a 
right to be made a burgefs of the borough of Ludlow 
ought to demand fuch his right by petition, figned by the 
petitioner, according to the bye-law made in the year 1663, 
and not otherwife. The number of voters is nearly five 
hundred. The two bailiff's are the returning officers. 
Earl Powis is patron of the borough ; and the members 
are his brother and fon. 
Several of the public buildings of Ludlow' are remark¬ 
ably neat ftruftures. The church, fituated in the higheft 
portion of the town, is a very fpacious and elegant edi¬ 
fice, in the form of a crofs, and feems to have been built 
in the reigns of Henry VII. and VIII. In the centre 
rifes a lofty fquare tower, embattled at the top, and very 
handfomely embelliftied. This tower adds in no fmall de¬ 
gree to the beauty of many of the views from the neigh¬ 
bouring country. The principal entrance to the church 
is under a large hexagonal porch, The nave is divided 
from 
