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downy when young. Leaves alternate, on fhort thick 
downy italics, roundifh-oblong, pointed, flightly lieart- 
fhaped, and a little unequal at the bafe, three or four 
inches long, unequally and fharply ferrated; fmooth and 
naked above; white, with denfe ftellated down, furnifhed 
with three prominent ribs, and numerous tranfverfe pa¬ 
rallel veins, beneath. Flowers white, large, and hand fome, 
not many together, in downy terminal limple cluIters. 
This plant is.clofely allied in habit and fruit to the Pte- 
rofperrhum of Schreber and Willdenow, (Pentnpetes fube- 
rifolia and acerifolia of Linnaeus;) the differences in their 
flowers however feem efiential, efpecially as the calyx of 
Pterofpermum is iimple. Native of lofty mountains in 
the Caraccas, from whence we have a fpecimen, gathered 
by Dr. J. Maerter, to whom, though we do not meet with 
his name, the Vienna gardens are indebted for many of 
the fineit plants publifhed by Jacquin. From him we 
learn what is mentioned above refpecting the capfule and 
feeds, about which profeifor Willdenow had no informa¬ 
tion. 
LU'HITH, a place or diftridt in the Moabites’ country, 
JJa. xv. 5. Jerem. xlvtii. 5. Eufebius and Jerome fay, Lu- 
hith is fituated between the cities of Ar and Zoar, and 
confequently eaft of the Dead Sea. 
LUHY'NY, a town of Ruffian Poland: twenty-four 
tniles weft-fouth-weft of Owrucze. 
LUI-CKEU', a city of China, in Quang-tong, fituated 
in a fertile and pleafant country, near the lea. Lat. 
s8. 58. N. Ion. no. 8. E. 
LUI-LUNG-TA'. SeeSE-CHOUi. 
LUI-SHIN', in mythology, the Jupiter of the Chinefe, 
orfpirit that prefides over thunder. The figure of it has 
the wings, beak, and talons, of an eagle. In bis right 
hand he holds a mallet, to ffrike the kettle-drums with 
which he is furrounded, whole noife is intended to con¬ 
vey the idea of thunder; while his left is filled with a vo¬ 
lume of undulating lines, very much refembling thofe 
in the hands of fome of the Grecian Jupiters, and evi¬ 
dently meant to convey the fame idea, viz. that of the 
thunder-bolts and lightning. The eagle’s talons are 
fioinetimes reprefented as fixed upon the axis of a wheel, 
round which the kettle-drums are hung, and by means 
of which, with aided velocity, he rolls among the clouds. 
Sir George Staunton has given a figure of this deity and 
liis accompaniments, from one of the temples at Pekin ; 
(fee his account of the Embafly to China, vol. ii. p. 304. 
5.) and lie adds, that “ in the original from whence the 
figure was taken, the dreadful effects of this terrific fpirit 
beneath the clouds are pointed out by the appearance of 
animals ffruck dead, and lying proftrate on the ground, 
buildings overturned, and trees torn up'by the roots.” 
LUI'DA, f. in botany, a genus was fo called by Adan- 
fon after Mr. Edward Llwyd, the correfpondent of Ray, 
who is mentioned in his Synopfis as the difcoverer of leve- 
ral mofies and other plants in Wales. Thisfuppofed ge¬ 
nus however will neither immortalize him, nor its whim- 
fical author, being made up of various fpecies of Hypnum, 
Bryum,Splachnum, Sic. charafterifed by having fome leaves 
triangular and fome orbicular. 
LUI'GI ROS'SI, one of the earlieft and mod volumi¬ 
nous compolers of cantatas in the feventeenth century. 
He is celebrated in 1640 by Pietro della Valle, in his letter 
to Guiddiccioni, for his grave canzonettes, particularly 
that which begins Or eke la nette del filcnzio arnica. Many 
of his cantatas are preferved in all the collections which 
include the mufic of the laft century; particularly in the 
Brit. Muf. Bibl. Harl. 1265 and 1:173, and ’ n Dr. Aldrich’s 
Collections, Chriltchurch, Oxon. His cantata, La Jortuna, 
in the Mufeum collection, No. 1265, is of an imrneafiirable 
length. The recitative, however, with formal doles, has 
pleafing expreffions in if, that ltill live. No da capo, or 
lign ot reference, appears in his cantatas, and he writes 
twice or three times over the lame air; a trouble which 
thefe expedients would have fpared. He feems to have 
Ratted leveral flimly divifions, which afterwards became 
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common ; and, indeed, it appears from his cantatas, that, 
as foon as. fecular mufic had diverted itlelf of the pedantry 
of perpetual canons, fugues, and multiplied parts, another 
vice crept into the art, by the frequent and exceffive ufe of 
divifions." Luigi, in fongs fora fingle voice, has fome 
ot this kind as long as thofe in modern bravura airs. In 
the Magliabecchi library at Florence is a part of an ora¬ 
torio called “ GiufeppeFiglio di Giacobe, opera lpirituale 
fatta in mufica da Aloigi de Roffi, Napolitano, in Roma.” 
And under the name of Roili many of his compofitions 
may be found in the Mufeum. Burney. 
LUIG'NA, a town of Spain, in Alturia : twenty miles 
north-north-weft of Oviedo. 
LUPNES, a tow n of France, in the department of the 
Indre and Loire, on the Loire : fix miles weft of Tours, 
and fix eaft-north-eaft of Longeais. 
LU'ING, or Long Island, one of the fmaller Weftern 
Iflands of Scotland, between Scarba and Kerrera. 
LU'IS (St.), a town of South America, in the govern¬ 
ment of Buenos Ayres, and province of Cordova, 17® 
miles louth-weft of Cordova. Lat. 32.10. S. Ion. 67. ia. W. 
-—A town of South America, in the province of Moyes: 
feventy-two miles north-weft of Trinidad.—A million of 
Spaliilh monks in New Albion : ten miles north-eaft of 
Puma el Efieros.—A town of New Navarre ; ninety miles 
fouth of Cafa Grande. 
LU'IS de la PAZ, a town of Mexico, in the province 
of Mechoacan ; 100 miles north of Mechoacan. Lat. 
21.50.N. Ion. 102. 16. W. 
LU'IS de MARANO'N. See St. Feupe. 
LU'IS de POTO'SI, a city of Mexico, in the province 
of Guafteca, pleafantly fituated, and environed with rich 
gold mines. This town is handfome and well built, con- 
liderable in fize, and populous. The ftreets are firaight 
and neat, the chuiches magnificent; and the inhabitants, 
who are chiefly Indians, poffeffing all the con veniencies 
and comforts of life. It is 190 miles north-north-weft of 
Mexico. Lat. 22. 25. N. Ion. 103. 6. W. 
LU'IS de ZACATE'CAS, a town of Mexico, capital 
of the province of Zacatecas, the fee of a bilhop, and refi- 
dence of a governor: 240 miles north-north-weft of 
Mexico. Lat. 22. 50. W. Ion. 103. 46. W. 
LUISIA'NA, a diftrift of Spain, between Carmona 
and Ecija, lately fettled by a company of Germans, who 
live not far from the high road. Their houles are built at 
regular dilt^nccs on one limple model, with an allotment 
ot land to each houfe. 
LUISI'NUS (Louis), a phyfician, was born at Udina, in 
the ftate of Venice, where he obtained conliderable repu¬ 
tation about the middle of the fixteenth century, and was 
not lefs diftinguilhed by his acquifitions in literature than 
by his medical (kill. He was author of the following 
works : 1. Aphorifmi Hippocratis hexametro carmine 
confcripti, Venice, 1552. 2. De compefcendis animi af¬ 
fections per moralem philofophiam et medendi artem. 
Bade, 1562. 3. Aphrodifiacus, Jive de Lue Venerea, in 
duos tomos ; Venice, 1566, folio. The firft volume con¬ 
tained an account of the printed treatifes on the lues up 
to that year ; the fecond, publilhed in the year following, 
comprehended principally the manufeript works on the 
fubjeft, which had not then been committed to the prefs. 
LU'ISNARSBERG, a town of Sweden, in Weftman- 
land : forty-eight miles north-weft of Stroemlholm. 
LUIS'TRE, a townofFrance, in the department of the 
Aube : fix miles north-eaft of Arcis lur Aube, and nine 
north-weft Bar lur Aube. 
LUI'TION, J. [ luo , Lat. to expiate.] An expiation. 
Cole. 
LU'ITPRAND, King of the Lombards. See that 
article, p. 43, 4, of this volume. 
LUJU'LA,yi in botany. See Oxalis acetofella. 
LUK, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Saatz : fix 
miles eaft of Caflfbad. 
LUKAU', a town of Moravia, in the circle of Znaym : 
eight miles weft-north-weft of Znaym. 
LUKAVET'ZI. 
