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the fcutel is a yellow dot; the fecond fegment of the ab¬ 
domen is edged with yellow, and the tail is black; legs 
black edged with yellow; wings black. Found in Tran- 
quebar. 
4. Leucopfis ccelogafter: abdomen fefi'de ; fcale of the 
thorax half as long as the abdomen. It is found in fome 
parts of Germany. 
LEUCORRHAi'A,/ [Gr. literally fignifying fiuor al¬ 
ius, or white flux.] A diforder of the uterus or its paf- 
fages, from which a whitilh or pale-coloured fluid is dif- 
charged, accompanied by pains in the loins, confiderable 
lofs of ftrength, and a wan fickly afpeCt. It is commonly 
expreffed by the appellation of the whites by the patients. 
See the article Pathology. 
LEUCOSCEP'TRUM,/. [named and inftitutedby Dr. 
Smith, from the Gr. Tievxo;, white, and ay.r,Tf\^o<;, a fceptre, on 
account of its elegant fceptre-fliaped fpike ot white flow¬ 
ers. The author of this genus remarks, that “ it has the 
habit of a Buddleia, but belongs to the fecond feCtion of 
Vitices in Juflieu, near Verbena; and fhould, along with 
Verbena, Itand near Mentha in the Linnaean fyftem.] In 
botany, a genus of the clafs didynamia, order gymnofper- 
mia. Eflential generic characters—Corolla unequal, in four 
fegments ; the uppermolt deeply cloven ; calyx five-cleft; 
flamens declining, much longer than the corolla, parallel; 
feeds four. 
Leucofceptrum canum, or hoary leucofceptrum, is the 
only fpecies known, and was gathered by Dr. Buchanan 
in the woods of Upper Nepal, where it flowers in Decem¬ 
ber, and is called mutfola by the Nawars. The branches 
are obtufely quadrangular, compreffed, clothed with fine, 
denfe, whitifh, pubefcence. Leaves on fhortifh downy 
footftalks, oppofite, elliptical, pointed, and tapering at both 
ends, bluntly ferrated, veiny; green and naked above; white 
and dou ny beneath. Spike terminal, folitary, feflile, ereCt, 
cylindrical, denfe, many-flowered. Brakes fmall, in four 
rows, oppofite, each common to many flowers. Calyx 
tubular, downy; its margin obtufe, unequally five-cleft. 
Corolla longer than the calyx, with a fliort tube; the 
limb in four very-unequal obtufe fegments, of which the 
lippermoft is deeply divided; the lowermolt, or lip, large, 
concave, and entire. Stamens declining, parallel, thread- 
ihaped, fmooth ; the two longed double the length of the 
lip; anthers roundifh, two-lobed, yellowifli. Germen 
fuperior, four-lobed; fiyle declining, as long as the longer 
flamens, with a cloven, acute ftigma; feeds four, trun¬ 
cated, naked, in the bottom of the calyx. This is one 
of the numerous fplendid plants fent by Dr. Buchanan, 
from the mountains of Nepal, to Dr. Smith, which fo 
greatly enrich the work whence the above defcription is 
chiefly taken. Smith's Exot. Bot. ii. 113. 
LEUCO'SIA, a fmall ifland in the Tyrrhene fea. It re¬ 
ceived its name from one of the companions of AEneas, 
who was drowned there ; or from one of the firens, who 
was thrown there by the fea. Ovid. Met. 15. 
LEUCO'SIS, J. [Greek.] A morbid vvhitenefs in any 
part of the body. 
LEUCOSPER'MUM, f. [fo named by Mr. Brown,from 
tayy-oj, white, and a-Trippa, feed.] A genus of plants de¬ 
fended by Mr. Brown in the 10th volume of Linn.Tranf. 
Eighteen fpecies are defined by Mr. Brown, all natives of 
fouthern Africa, about the Cape of Good Hope, growing 
for the molt part in dry, fandy, rather-elevated, fituations. 
Eight of them are cultivated in the royal garden at Kew. 
The whole are divided into turn feCtions; the firft having 
a rounder head of flowers, whofe calyx-icales are perma¬ 
nent, becoming fomewhat hardened, of which defcription 
are fourteen fpecies: the remaining four have a flatter 
common receptacle, with narrow deciduous feales, of 
which the innermoft are very thin and chaffy. All are 
fhrubs of rather humble growth, rarely arborefeent 5 many 
of them downy or hairy. Leaves either entire, or fur- 
nifhed with callous teeth at the extremity. Flowers yel¬ 
low', in terminal heads. The fpecies are partly new, and 
partly leleCted from the genus Protea, which fee. 
LEUCOSYR'II, a people of Afla Minor, called after- 
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wards Cappadocians. Straho. —The fame name is given to 
the inhabitants of Cilicia where it borders on Cappadocia. 
C. Nep. 
LEUCOTH'OE, in fabulous hiftory, a daughter of 
king Orchamus by Eurynome. Apollo became enamoured 
of her; and, to introduce himfelf to her with greater faci¬ 
lity, he aifumed the fhape and features of her mother. 
Their happinefs was complete, when Clytia, who tenderly 
loved Apollo, and was jealous of his amours with Leuco- 
thoe, difeovered the whole intrigue to her father, who or¬ 
dered his daughter to be buried alive. The lover, unable 
to fave her from death, fprinkled neCtar and ambrofia on 
her tomb, which, penetrating as far as the body, changed 
it into a beautiful tree which bears the frankincenfe. Ovid. 
LEUCOTH'OE, or Leucothe'a, in fabulous hiftory, 
the wife of Athamus, changed into a fea-deity ; fee Ino, 
vol. xi. p. 94. She was called Matuta by the Romans. 
She had a temple at Rome, where all the people, particu¬ 
larly women, offered vows for their brothers’ children. 
They did not entreat the deity to protect their own chil¬ 
dren, becaufe Ino had been unfortunate in her’s. To this 
l’upplicating for other people’s children, Ovid alludes in 
thefe lines : 
Non tamen hanc pro Jlirpe fua pia mater adorat, 
Ipfa parum felix vifa fuijfe parens. Fafl. vi. 
LEUCOX'YLON, f. in botany. See Bignonia. 
LEU'CTRA, a village of Boeotia, between Plataea and 
Thefpia, famous for the victory which Epaminondas the 
Theban general obtained over the fuperior force of Cle- 
ombrotus, king of Sparta, on the 8th of July, B.C. 371. 
In this famous battle 4000 Spartans were killed, with their 
king Cleombrotus, and no more than 300 Thebans. From 
that time the Spartans loft the empire of Greece, which 
they had retained for near 500 years. See the article 
Greece, vol. viii. p. 910, ix. 
LEUD, or Leude, adj. Unlearned; ignorant; foolifh. 
Chaucer. 
LEU'DILY, adv. Unlearnedly ; fooliflily. Chaucer, 
LEU'DINESS, f. Ignorance; folly. Chaucer. 
LEU'DLY, adv. Ignorantly ; fooliflily. Chaucer. 
LEV'EE,/i [French.] The time of rifing. The con- 
courfe of thofe who crowd round a man of power in a 
morning : 
Would’ft thou be firft minifter of ftate; 
To have thy levees crowded with refort 
Of a depending, gaping, fervile, court ? Dryden. 
LEV'EL, adj. [laipel, Sax.] Even ; not having one 
part higher than another : 
The garden, feated on the level floor, 
She left behind. Dryden's Boccace. 
Even with any thing elfe ; in the fame line with any thing. 
—There is a knowledge which is very proper to man,and 
lies level to human underftanding, the knowledge of our 
Creator, and of the duty we owe to him. Tillotfon. 
Our navy is addrefs’d, our pow’r collected, 
And ev’ry thing lies level to our with. Shahcfpeare. 
Having no gradations of fuperiority.—Be level in prefer¬ 
ments, and you will foon be as level in your learning. 
Bentley. 
To LEV'EL, v. a. To make even; to free from inequa¬ 
lities: as, he levels the walks.—To reduce to the lame 
height with fomething elfe: 
He will thy foes with filent fliame confound, 
. And their proud ftructures level with the ground. Sandys. 
To lay flat.—We know by experience, that all downright 
rains do evermore diffever the violence of outrageous 
winds, and beat down and level the fuelling and moun* 
tainous billows of the fea. Raleigh. 
With unrefifted might the monarch reigns : 
He levels mountains, and he raifes plains; 
And, not regarding diff’fence of degree. 
Abas’d your daughter, and exalted me. Dry den. 
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