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length of the tube. Piftillum: germen inferior; ftyle 
Ample; ftigma bilid, thiekilh. Pericarpium : berry fubo- 
vate, angular, comprefi’ed on all lides by the next, trun¬ 
cate, one-celled. Seeds : two, convex on one fide, flat on 
the other .—Effenlial CharuRer. Flowers aggregate, one- 
petalled; ftigma bifid ; drupes aggregate. There are fix 
fpecies. 
1. Morinda umbellata, or narrow-leaved morinda: 
ere£l ; leaves lanceolate-ovate ; peduncles cluftered. 
This is a tree, with the leaves of Ceplialanthus, oppofite, 
petioled, quite entire. Umbel feflile, or feveral equal pe¬ 
duncles terminating blunt branches, on each of which 
fit aggregate heads. Fruit fubglobular, on a long pedun¬ 
cle, compofed of berries, which are inverfely pyramidal, 
four-coanered, flefliy, one-celled, having no partitions, or 
fuch very thin ones that they are obliterated when the 
fruit is ripe. Seeds four, bony, one-celled, arched on the 
back, flat on the fides, and towards the axis comprefied 
into a wedge-form edge. Native of the Eaft Indies, Co- 
chjnchina, and the Society Ifles. The root is ufed for 
dyeing yellow. 
2. Morinda citrifolia, or broad-leaved morinda : arbo¬ 
reous ; with folitary peduncles. Shoots on the upper 
part quadrangular, grooved and knobbed. Leaves in 
pairs from the knots, on thick round petioles, large, 
rounded-oblong, more contra&ed towards the bafe, and 
ending in a point, of afoft thick texture, flat, dark green 
above, paler underneath ; the midrib thick and whitifti; 
the upper leaves gradually fmaller, and on fliorter petioles. 
Corolla four or five cleft, the parts narrow-oblong, pointed, 
l'preading, thick, white within, herbaceous on the outlide ; 
ftamens four, five, or fix, correfponding with the number 
of divifions in the corolla, fliort, yellowifh. Berry to each 
flower, conglobated into an ovate-conoid fruit, teflelated 
with flightly deprefled mamillas, and flefliy, marked above 
with a round eye, fomewhat convex, rhomb-wedge-form 
below, firmly united, four-celled. Seed in each cell one, 
obovate-oblong, flightly convex on one fide, concave on 
the other, with a fubglobular void protuberance on one 
fide below' the vertex of the feed. The feeds are fixed, 
without any receptacle, to the bafe of the cells. Native of 
the Eaft Indies, and the Society and Friendly Iflands ; 
where the yellow dye for their cloth is from the bark of 
the root. 
3. Morinda royoc, or procumbent morinda: procum¬ 
bent. Stem (hrubby, a foot high, procumbent at bottom, 
branched. Branches Ample. Leaves petioled, lanceolate, 
entire, fmooth; branchlets from the axils of the leaves 
oppofite. Flowers terminating, aggregate in a globular 
receptacle, white. Calyx tubular, thick, undivided. 
Tube of the corolla villofe within, with a nedtariferous 
bafe. Style bifid. Stigmas reflex. Berries aggregate, 
with two feeds to each. The roots dye linen of a dark 
hue, and would probably be ufeful to the dyers. Native 
of South America, and the iflands in the Weft Indies; 
and alfo of Cochinchina, according to Loureiro. 
4. Morinda pubefcens, or downy morinda: flower- 
ftalks lateral, hairy ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, tapering 
at each end, -vougliilh, heads globular, corolla fwelling 
upwards, nearly fmooth. Native of the ifland of Mau¬ 
ritius. Communicated by Thouin to the younger Lin¬ 
naeus. The item is woody, with twilled, and perhaps 
trailing, branches, downy when young. Leaves three 
inches long and one broad, lanceolate, fomewhat obo- 
vate, tapering much at each end, paler beneath, roughiflt 
on both fides with minute points ; the ribs and veins 
hairy. Flower-ftalks lateral, oppofite to a folitary leaf, 
hairy, an inch long, folitary except at the end of the 
branch, where there are two, one of them being terminal, 
the other oppofite to the uppermoft leaf; head globole, 
I mall, of but few flowers ; corolla above an inch long, 
flightly rough at the tips and edges of the fegments only. 
5. Morinda axillaris, or axillary morinda : leaves oval, 
bluntilh ; heads axillary, feflile ; tube of the corolla very 
Ihort. Native of Madagafcar. Branches long and pliant. 
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Leaves fomewhat wrinkled, paler beneath. Flowers fmall, 
with a very fliort tube, the head lefs crowded than in the 
reft of the fpecies, and difpofed in fomewhat of a whorled 
manner. The leaves vary in acutenefs. 
6. Morinda retufa,or blunt morinda: arboreous; leaves 
oval, abrupt; heads Feflile, terminal. Native of Madar 
gafcar; but very diltindl from the former. Branches 
hard, knotty, forked. Leaves much more crowded than 
in any of the foregoing, oval; obtufe and abrupt at their 
fummit; contracted at the bale. See Guilandina. 
MO'RING (Gerard), a learned catholic divine and 
theological profeflor in the fixteenth century, was a na¬ 
tive of Bommel in Guelderland, concerning the time of 
whole birth we have no information. He became a mem-, 
ber of the univerfity of Louvain, where he was admitted 
to the degree of dodlor of divinity, and officiated for 
fome time as profeflor in that faculty, with a high repu¬ 
tation for learning and eloquence. Afterwards he was 
made canon and pallor of St. Trudon, vulgarly called 
St. Tron, in the diocefe of Liege, where he died in 1556. 
He was the author of, 1. Commentarius in Ecclefiallen, 
1 533, 8vo. 2. Chronicon Trudonenfe, ab Anno 1410; 
continued afterwards by a monk of the rich abbey in that 
place. 3. Prsecepta: Vitae honellae. 4. Vita S. Auguftini, 
ex ipfis potiflimum fandliflimi viri monumentis, 1533, 8vo. 
5. Vita Hadriani VI. Pont. Max. 1536, 4to. 6. Vitae S. 
Trudonis. S. S. Liberii et Eucherii, 154^ 4to. 7. Qra- 
tiones, &c. Vulerii Andrece Bill. Belg. 
MORIN'GEN, a town of Germany, in the principality 
of Furftenberg: twenty-fix miles north-weft of Conftance, 
and fourteen north-eall of Schaft’haufen. 
MORIN'GEN, a town of Weltphalia, and principality 
of Calenberg, lituated on the Mohr, which foon after runs 
into the Leine. It contains two churches : ten miles 
north-north-weft of Gottengen, and five well of Nord- 
heim. Lat. 51.38. N. Ion. 9.55. E. 
MORIN'GEN, a town of Bavaria: four miles fouth of 
Friedberg, and thirteen north-north-eaft of Landlberg. 
MORI'NI, [from mor, Celtic, the fea.] A people of 
Belgic Gaul, on the fhores of the Britifli Ocean. The 
ffiorteft paffage to Britain was from their territories. 
They were called extremi hominum by the Romans, be- 
caufe fituate on the extremities of Gaul. Their city, 
called Morinorum CaJieLlum, is now Mount Cassel, in 
Artois; and Morinorum Civitas, is Terouenne, on the 
Lis. Lempriere. 
MORINIE'RE (Adrian Claude le Fort de la), a French 
writer, was born at Paris in 1696, and died in 1768. He 
was author of many works, of which the principal are, 
1. Choix de Poefies Morales. 2. Bibliotheque Poetique. 
3. Pafle-temps Poetiques, Hiftoriques, et Critiques. 
MO'RIO, J'. in botany. See Orchis. 
MO'RION, J'. [French.] A helmet; armour for the 
head ; a caique.—For all his majelly’s ihips a proportion 
of fwords, targets, morions, and cuiras of proof, lhould 
be allowed, llaleigh. 
Polilh’d Heel that call the view afide, 
And crelled morions with their plumy pride. Dnjden. 
MOR'IS, a town of New Mexico, in the province of 
Mayo : one hundred miles north-eall of Santa Cruz. 
MOR'IS’s BAY, or Mor'ris's Bay, a bay on the l'outh- 
weftcoaft of Antigua: four miles weft of Falmouth Harbour. 
MORI'SA, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon : 
165 miles fouth-welt of Meaco. Lat. 34. 6. N. Ion. 131, 
39 - E - 
MORIS'CO, or Mori'sk, f [morifco, Span, morifque, 
old Fr.] The Moorilh language.—He, leaping in firlt of 
all, fet hand to his falchion, and laid in MoriJ'co, Let none 
of you that are here ftir. Shelton's D. Quixote. — A dance 
after the manner of the Moors, written morris, but fome- 
times more properly morice. Morifco, morijk, morice. 
Teems an eafy dedudtion; though mores is alfo an old 
■word for Moorijh. —To this purpofe were taken up at Rome 
tkefe foreign exercifes of vaulting and dancing the morijhe,. 
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