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few flowers he obferved four petals and eight flamens. 
According to him, the whole tree is fmooth, the height of 
a man (in the Hove), with a trunk the thicknefs of the 
human arm, covered with a brownifh afh-coloured bark, 
very much branched, the branehlets alternate, fpreading. 
Spines awl-fnaped, ftraight, fpreading, on each fide at the 
leaves and branehlets, the older ones near half an inch 
long. Flowers fweet-fmelling, on very Ihort peduncles, 
axillary, in pairs or three together, fucceeding each other 
jlowly ; calyx fomew.hat villofe, green. Corolla and fila¬ 
ments white ; antherse pale yellow ; ftigma yellow; fruit 
red-bay, foft, the fize of a hazel-nut; pulp colourlefs, very 
fweet, with a flight tafie of turpentine ; before it is ripe 
glutinous and tailing ftrong of turpentine. Seeds pale 
coloured with green and purple, large, fmooth, contain¬ 
ing a green two-lobed. kernel of an unpleafant acrid tafte. 
One or two feeds only ttfually ripen; and then the parti¬ 
tions are fo prefled together, that the number of cells can¬ 
not,eafily be difeerned. It is a native both of China and 
Cochin-china, where it is.much cultivated both for the 
beauty and fmell, and the pliancy of its branches. Jac- 
quin’s plant alfo came originally from China, though im¬ 
mediately from the ifland of Mauritius. He fays that it 
flowers very well in the open air from May to July, and 
bears abundance of fruit in September. According to 
Burman, it is a native of Java. 
4. Lirnonia pentaphylla, or five-leaved limonia: un¬ 
armed; leaves commonly quinate; leaflets oblong, entire. 
Trunk fcarcely any, with an alh-coloured bark. Branches 
numerous, nearly ereft. Leaves in threes, fours, or fives, 
but generally in fives, feather-form ; leaflets alternate, ob¬ 
long, fmooth, fliining, from two to three inches long, and 
about an inch and a half broad. Petiole round, fmooth. 
Flowers white, very fragrant. Berry round, red, fmooth, 
fize of a fmall cherry, pulpy. One or two feeds only 
come to maturity, though the germ has always the rudi¬ 
ments of five. It is an elegant fragrant flirub, very com¬ 
mon in moft uncultivated lands in Coromandel, but chiefly 
under large trees, where birds have dropped the feeds. It 
flowers all the year there. The whole plant, when dry¬ 
ing in the fhade, diffufes a pleafant permanent feent; the 
flowers are exquifitely fragrant; birds eat the berries 
greedily. 
5. Limonia acidiflima, or (harp limonia : leaves pinnate; 
fpines folitary. This tree is faid to attain the height of 
thirty feet, with a trunk ten inches in diameter. The 
leaves have the fmell of anife, and fo has the fruit, whence 
Rumphius calls it Anifum Moluccanum. Native of the 
Eaft Indies. 
6. Limonia arhorea, or branching limonia: flem arbo¬ 
reous, unarmed ; leaves quinate ; leaflets linear, ferrate. 
Leaves alternate, in fives ; leaflets alternate fmooth, five 
inches long, and about two broad. The refi as in L. pen¬ 
taphylla. The berries are alfo eaten by birds, and the 
flowers are equally fragrant with thofe of the fourth fort. 
In their habit thefe two agree, and the ferrate leaves are 
the chief diftinftion. Native of the mountainous parts of 
the Circars, where it grows to a middle-fized tree, with a 
large branching head. This is reprefented on the annexed 
Plate, at fig. 1. the flower is fhovvn feparate at a. 
7. Limonia crenulata, or notched limonia : leaves alter¬ 
nate or fafcicled ; leaflets two or three pairs with broad¬ 
winged petioles; fpines folitary. Flowers white, fmall, 
fragrant, collefted in fmall umbels or racemes over va¬ 
rious parts of the branehlets. Native of Coromandel, on 
the low lands near the coaft. It is there a (hrub, but in 
the mountains it grows to a middle-fized tree. It flow¬ 
ers in the hot feafon. 
LIMO'NIA, an ifland in the Mediterranean, about 
three miles long, and one broad : fix miles weft of Rhodes. 
Lat. 36. 7.7. N. Ton. 27. 22. E. 
LIMONPADES, in the mythology of the poets, the 
nymphs of the meadows. 
LIMONIAS'TRUM, /. in botany. See Statice, 
LIMO'NIUM. See Sarracenia and Statice.. 
L I M 
LIMO'NUM, a town of Gaul, afterwards Piflavi, novr 
Pointers. 
LIMOSA'NO, a town of Naples, in the county of Mo- 
life : feventeen miles north-eaft of Molife. 
LlMOSEL'LA,/! [from limus, Lat. mud; in which it 
delights to grow.] Mudwort ; in botany, a genus of 
the clafs didynamia, order angiofpermia, natural order of 
precise, (lyfimachiat, JvJf.) The generic characters are— 
Calyx: periantliium one-leafed, five-cleft, upright, ftiarp„ 
permanent. Corolla: one-petalled, bell-lhaped, upright, 
equal, five-cleft,acute, fmall; divifions fpreading. Stamina: 
filaments four, upright, of which twm are approximated 
to the fame fide, lliorter than the corolla ; antheras Ample. 
Piftillum: germ oblong, obtufe, two-celled; ftyle Ample, 
length of the ftamens, declinate ; ftigma globcfe. Peri- 
carpium : capfule ovate, half involved by the calyx, one- 
celled, divided below by the partition, two-valved. Seeds: 
very many, oval ; receptacle ovate, large.— EJfential Cha. 
ratter. Calyx five-cleft; corolla five-cleft,equal; ftamina 
approximating by pairs; capfule one-celled, two-valved, 
many-feeded. 
Species. 1. Limofella aquatica, common mudwort, or 
baftard plantain : leaves lanceolate. Root annual, throw¬ 
ing out naked cylindrical proftrate runners, which take 
root at their extremities, and form new' plants. Leaves 
radical, on long foot-ftalks, fpatulate, fmooth, entire. 
Flowers fmall, radical, on Ample fiower-ftalks, which be¬ 
come inflexed as the fruit ripens ; corolla with a fwelling 
tube ; the limb in five equal fegments, whitifh without, 
red on the infide, the two uppermoft of which are a little 
inflexed. Seeds very numerous. Linnaeus remarks, that 
the leaves are involute. Dr. Smith fays he has not found 
them fo. Native of many parts of Europe, in muddy and 
gravelly places liable to be flooded, and where water has 
flood during the winter; flowering from July to Septem¬ 
ber. See fig. 2 of the Plate. 
a. Limofella diandra: leaves fublinear. This has en¬ 
tirely the habit of the preceding, but it is only one-fourth 
of the fize, fo that it is one of the leaft plants we are ac¬ 
quainted with. It increafes like the laft by runners, and 
thefe are very fhort. Leaves radical, linear, fcarcely 
widening in the middle, blunt at the end. Scapes capil¬ 
lary, one-flowered, the length of the leaves. Stamens no 
more than two. Found by Koenig at the Cape of Good 
Hope, on the coaft. 
LIMOSIN', before the revolution a province of France, 
of which Limoges was the capital. 
LIMOS'ITY, f. The ftate of being muddy. 
LIMOU'GNE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lot: thirteen miles eaft of Cahors, and nine north of 
Caylus. 
LIMOU'RS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Seine and Oile : nine miles fouth of Verfailks, and 
fixteen fouth-fouth-weft of Paris. 
LI'MOUS, adj. [limof/ts, Lat.] Muddy; ftimy.— That 
country became a gained ground by the muddy and limous 
matter brought down by the Nilus, which fettled by de¬ 
grees unto a firm land. Brown's Vulgar Errours. 
LIMOU'X, a town of France, and principal place of a 
diftrifl, in the department of the Aude : 2^ polls fouth of 
Carcafl’onne, and ninety-feven fouth of Paris. Lat. 43. 
3. N. Ion. 2. 18. E. 
LIMOUZINIE'RE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Loire : nine miles eaft of Machecoul. 
LIMP, adj. [limpid, Ital.] Vapid ; weak. Not in ufe, 
—The chub eats waterifh, and the ftelh of him is not 
firm, but limp and taftelefs. Walton's Angler. —It is ufed in 
fame provinces, and in Scotland, for limber, flexile. 
To LIMP, v. n. [limpen, Sax.] To halt ; to walk 
lamely.—When Plutus, with his riches, is lent from Ju¬ 
nker, he limps and goes flowly ; but, when he is Cent by 
Pluto, he runs and is fwift of foot. Bacon. 
Son of fixteen, 
Pluck the lin’d crutch from thy old limping fire. Shake/p , 
lim^ach; 
