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ffttle enlarged ; limb in fix deep fegments, fhorter thatl 
the tube; either quite equal and regular, or (lightly irre¬ 
gular ; in the former cafe horizontal, in the latter inclin¬ 
ing. Stamina: filaments three; inferted into the mouth 
of the tube, rather fhorter than the limb, various in di¬ 
rection; antheras oblong, incumbent. Piltillum: germen 
inferior, roundifh; (tyle capillary, as long as the ftamens; 
itigmas three, linear, deeply divided, fpreading and re¬ 
curved, downy. Pericarpium: capfule membranous, three- 
lobed, or with three comprefled dilated angles, of three 
cells and three valves, with very (hurt partitions. Seeds: 
numerous, in two rows, nearly globofe, or (lightly angu¬ 
lar from preflure.— Ejj'ential CharaEler. Spatha of one or 
two folded valves. Corolla falver-fhaped ; limb in fix 
deep fegments, (hotter than the tube. Stigmas three, 
deeply divided. Capfule membranous, triangular, with 
many globular feeds. 
1. Lapeyroufta corymbofa, or level-topped lapeyroufia: 
flowers regular, corymbofe; tube fcarcely longer than 
the limb; ftamens widely fpreading; (tern two-edged, 
fomewhat branched. Native of the Cffpe of Good Hope, 
whence it was introduced by Mr. Maffon in 1791. It 
flowers in the green-houfe in May and June, and requires 
to be kept dry when out of bloffom. Stem about a foot 
high, zig-zag, fomewhat branched, leafy, corymbofe. 
Leaves vertical, clafping the deni with their broad (heath- 
ing bafe. Flowers numerous, not an inch wide, blue, 
generally with a white ftarry central mark, bordered with 
darker blue; fometimes they vary to white. 
2. Lapeyroufia falcata, or falcate lapeyroufia : flowers 
flightly irregular, racemofe ; tube twice as long as the 
limb; ftem comprefled ; leaves nearly radical, falcate, 
obovato-lanceolate. From the Cape; difcovered by Thun- 
berg. The ftem is but five or fix inches high. 
3. Lapeyroufia fafciculata, or fafciculate lapeyroufia : ra¬ 
dical leaves fword-fliaped, ereCf; floral ones crowded, re¬ 
curved, undulated, obtufe, longer than the cluftered flow¬ 
ers; corolla regular; tube above twice as long as the limb; 
fpatha of one valve. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Stem very fliort; the flowers cluftered at its fummit, white, 
with narrow equal fegments, and remarkable for being 
encompafled with crowded floral leaves, which are longer 
than themfelves, recurved, undulated, and obtufe. The 
foliage is glaucous. 
4. Lapeyroufia fifiifolia, or fplit-leaved lapeyroufia : 
leaves deeply fplit, and clafping the ftem at their bafe; 
with a (hort l'word-ftiaped point; floral ones rounded. 
Spike leafy ; corolla fomewhat irregular, drooping ; tube 
thrice as long as the limb. Received from the Cape of 
Good Hope by Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy, with whom it 
flowered in Sept. 1809. Mr. Mafibn, however, is recorded 
as having fent the fame to Kew in 1791. The flowers 
are purplifh, fragrant, varying in the fize and colours of 
their limb. n 
5. Lapeyroufia anceps, or fword-leaved lapeyroufia: 
leaves fword-(haped, decurrent, toothed at the outer edge; 
Stem corymbofe, fpreading; corolla irregular; tube thrice 
as long as the limb. Native of the Cape. This appears 
to be the original fpecies on which Pourret founded the 
genus, in the Memoirs of the Society of Touloufe, vol. 
iii. It differs from the laft in its branching corymbofe 
ftem, winged with the narrow, decurrent, toothed, bafes 
of the perfectly fword-(haped and vertical leaves. The 
flowers vary with different (hades of blue, and have a very 
long tube. 
6. Lapeyroufia filenoides, or campion-flowered lapey¬ 
roufia: leaves linear-fword-fhaped, entire; floral ones as 
long as the reft ; corolla irregular; tube five times as long 
as the limb, erefl. Native of the Cape, and, as it feems, 
known only to Jacquin, who has named it very happily 
from the afpeft of the flower, which is red, with a (pot 
of yellow at the bafe of three of the fegments, all on one 
fide. The ftem is about a fpan high, branched from the 
bottom, and clotted with linear, glaucous, gralfy, leaves, 
L A P 
from feveral of the uppermoft of which the flowers pro¬ 
ceed. Curtis's Mag. vol. v. 
Lapeyrousia, a generic term applied by Thunberg 
to the Osmites calycina, which fee. 
LAPTLA, a town of Portugal, m the province of 
Entre Ditero e Minho, on the Minho : fourteen miles 
eaft of Valei^a, and three weft of Monqao. 
LAPFIO'KD, a town of Sweden, lituated in a bay of 
the gulf of Bothnia: eight miles fouth of Chriftianftadt. 
LAP'FUL, J'. As much as can be contained in the lap. 
—One found a wiid vine, and gathered thereof wild 
gourds his lapful , and (hied them into the pot of pottage. 
2 Kings. 
LAPHA'O, a town on the north coaft of the ifland of 
Timor, in the Eaftern Indian Sea, inhabited by Portu- 
guefe or defcendants of Portuguele, fituated at the bottom 
of a bay ; and containing a church and about fixty houfes 5 
the inhabitants are of a copper colour, with black hair; 
fome trade is carried on with Batavia; Come Chinefe junks 
and veilels from Goa vilit this port, which is only fafe 
from March to Auguft ; at all other times, frequent hur¬ 
ricanes render the harbour unfafe. 
LA'PHRIA, a lurname of Diana at Patrae in Achaia*, 
where ihe had a temple, with a (tatue of gold and ivory 
which repreiented her in the habit of a huntrefs. This 
name was given from the goddefs of Lapluius, the fon of 
Delphus, who confecrated the ftatue to her. There was- 
a feltival of the goddefs there, called alfo Laphria. Pau - 
Janias. 
LAPHYS'TIUM, a mountain in Bceotia, where Jupi¬ 
ter had a temple, whence he was called Laphyjlius. It was 
here that Athamas prepared to immolate Phryxus and 
Helle, whom Jupiter laved by fending them a golden ram. 
Paufanias. 
LAP'ICIDE, J. [ lapicida , from lapis, Lat.] A ftone- 
cutter. 
LAP'IDABLE, adj. Worthy of being ftoned; fit to be 
ftoned. Nut ufed. 
LAPIDA'RIOUS, adj. Stony; containing ftones. Cole. 
LAPIDARY,/, \_lapidaire, Fr.] One who deals in 
ftones or gems.—Of all die many (orts of the gem kind 
reckoned up by the lapidaries, there are not above three or 
four that are original. Woodward's Nat. Hijl. —A11 artificer,, 
who cuts precious ftones. 
The art of cutting precious ftones is very ancient; but 
like other arts, its original was very imperfeft. The 
French have lucceeded in it the belt; and the lapidaries 
of Paris, who have been a corporation lince the year 1290, 
have carried it, elpecially in cutting of diamonds called 
brilliants, to a very great perfection, but not l'uperior to 
that of the Eiiglilh. 
There are various machines ufed in the cutting of pre¬ 
cious ftones, according to the quality of the matter to be 
cut. The diamond, which is extremely hard, is cut and 
formed on a wheel of foft fteel, turned by a kind of mill, 
with diamond-duft tempered in oil of olives ; and this 
ferves to polifti them as well as to cut them. Oriental 
rubies, fapphires, and topazes, are cut and formed on a 
copper wheel, with oil of olives and diamond-duft; they 
are afterwards polilhed on another copper wheel with tri- 
poli and w'ater. Emeralds, hyacinths, amethyfts, garnets, 
agates, and other ftones lefs hard, are cut on a leaden, 
wheel, with fmalt and water, and polilhed on a tin wheel 
with tripoli. Turquois, of the old and new rock, lapis 
girafol, and opal, are cut and polilhed on a wooden wheel 
with tripoli alfo. 
LAP'IDARY, adj. [from the /] Done on ftone ; en¬ 
graved on ftone ; monumental ; fit for a grave-ftone. 
To LAP'IDATE, v. a. [ lapido, Lat.} To ftone, to kill- 
by ltoning. 
LAPIDA'TION, / A ftoning. 
LAPID'EOUS, adj. Stony ; of the nature of ftone.— 
There might fall down into the lapuleous matter, before it 
was concreted into a ftone, fome lmall toad, which might 
remain. 
