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2. Mazeutoxeron reflexum : leaves oblong,,uacfulatecl, 
heart-tliaped at tbe bafe ; flowers pendulous; calyx-teeth 
elongated.' Taller than the foregoing. It firfl flowered 
at the marquis of Blandford’s, at White Knights, Berks, 
the feeds having been fent from New South Wales. It 
thrives well under a warm wall in the open air, with a 
little covering in winter, and flowers in the autumn. The 
branches are numerous, divaricated, and forked, clothed 
vi hen young with cluttered rutty pubefcence. Leaves on 
fliort (talks, reflexed, oblong, bluntith, veiny, heart-rtiaped 
at the bafe; undulated and fomewliat revolute at the mar¬ 
gin ; green, dotted, and roughith above ; denfely pubefcent 
and whitifh beneath. Flowers terminal or axillary, foli- 
tary, pendulous, with a pair of narrow bradtes a little be¬ 
low the bafe of the calyx ; corolla cylindrical, the petals 
cohering ttrongly, except at the bafe and fummit, all over 
downy, and of a pale green ; itamens longer than the co¬ 
rolla; capfules white, hairy; feeds black. It varies with 
trifid as well as quinquefid flowers, but its natural and 
general ftrudture is quadrifid, like the other fpecies. The 
flowers are without fmell, at lead in this country; but 
their afpedl is Angular and elegant. 
The Cornea rubra, or red-floweped corrtea, added by 
Dr. Smith from Banks’s MS. Herbarium, is probably a 
variety of the above. The leaves indeed are more com¬ 
monly ovate than heart-fit aped at their bafe, though vari¬ 
able in this refpedt; the flowers grow rather upright than 
pendulous, and their calyx is almoft perfedlly even at the 
edge, with fcarcely any rudiments of teeth, and nothing 
like the linear elongations obfervable in the laft, which 
form its mod decifive charadter. The plant however is 
chiefly remarkable for the criinfon hue of the corolla, 
which, contraded with its green extremities, renders this 
one of the handfomed New-Holland flirubs; and it is to 
be regretted, that, though dried fpecimens have been 
brought from its native country, no feeds have vegetated 
in our gardens. The flower-buds and their cups look 
exadfly like fmall acorns. Sir J. Banks and Dr. Solander 
iird difcovered this fpecies. Smith’s Exotic Botany, vol. ii. 
Linn. Tranf. vol. iv. p. 319. Wildenow's Sp, PI, vol. ii. 
p. 32 4- 
MAZIE'RA, or Midja're, an ifland in the Indian 
Sea, near the ealt coad of Arabia: fixty miles long, and 
eight w ide. Lat. ao. N. Ion. 74. E. 
MAZIE'RES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Two Sevres, and chief place of a canton, in the dibridt 
of Parthenay. The place contains 605, and the canton 
8447, inhabitants, in twelve communes. 
MAZIL', a town of the ifland of Cuba: twenty miles 
vved-fonth-wed of Bayamo. 
MA'ZING,/. The adt of confuting. 
MAZOCH'I (Alexio Symmacho), a learned Italian 
antiquary, was born in 1684, at St. Maria, a village near 
Capua. He was placed for education in the Campanian 
feminary, where he profited fo little under the bad me¬ 
thods of indrudfion then in ufe, that he was fent to Na¬ 
ples, to be tinder the care of his elder brother Charles, 
who was a proficient in Greek literature.. From him he 
foon imbibed the elements of the learned languages; and, 
being introduced to good authors, he acquired fuch a love 
for (tudy, that he became didinguithed for his acquire¬ 
ments. As he was dettined to the church, he went through 
a regular courfe of philofophy and theology at Naples ; 
but, being left to his own difpofal by his father’s death, 
he took a wide range in his ttudies, without any other 
guide than his own inclination. Upon the removal of his 
intimate friend, Charles Majelli, from the office of prefect 
in the Neapolitan feminary, to that of the pope’s fecretary, 
Mazochi lucceeded him in the former employment, to 
the duties of which he devoted liimfelf with the utmob 
alfiduity. He taught the Greek and Hebrew languages, 
and attended to the discipline of the feminary, which 
greatly flourithed under liis care. His reputation induced 
the archbifhop of Capua, Caraccioli, £0 urge his return 
to his native place j as an inducement to which, he was 
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prefen tied with a canonry in that church : but lie would 
agree only to fpend at Capua the time required by his 
duty as canon, and the red of the year at Naples. The 
pope foon after prefented him with a theological canonry, 
upon which he relinquitlied tuition in polite literature, 
and devoted hintfelf to teaching the Scriptures alone. His 
fird publication was of the antiquarian clafs, and wa3 
confequenr upon the difcovery of the ruins of an amphi¬ 
theatre at Capua ; it was entitled “ I11 mutilum Carnpani 
Amphitheatri Titulum, aliatque nonnullas Campanas In- 
fcriptiones Commentarius,” 1727, 4to. afterwards much 
enlarged by him. The profound erudition and critical 
acumen which he difplayed in this performance, acquired 
him great applaufe from the learned, efpecially from Zeno 
and Muratori. Some illiberal oppofition which he met 
with from the clergy of Capua, caufed him to quit that 
city, and fix his relidence altogether at Naples, where, 
through the patronage of cardinal Spinelli, the archbifhop, 
he was made a canon of the cathedral, and prcfeflor of 
facred literature in the royal academy. In 1739 he pnb- 
1 itlied an epidle “ De Dedicatione tub Afcia,” on which 
obfcure fiibjefl of antiquity he employed a mnfs of criti¬ 
cal erudition. 
A family-incident of an improper matrimonial engage¬ 
ment being contracted by one of his nephews againtt his 
father’s will,-induced him, in 1742, to republith with 
commentaries a diflertation by Mufcottola archbifhop of 
Rofano, “ De Filiisfamilias invito Patre nupturientibus,” 
in which he entered deeply into ecclefiaftical antiquity. 
The fame line of fludy gave him confiderable employ¬ 
ment on occafion of the difcovery of two marble tablets 
on which an ancient calendar of faints’days was engraven : 
this gave rife to an elaborate publication of his in 3 vols. 
4to. in 1744. A Hi dory of the Cathedral of Naples fol¬ 
lowed ; with various other antiquarian differtaficos on 
different topics. Of thefe, one of the moll curious and 
valuable was his “ Commentarium in Regii Herculanenlis 
Mufaei aeneas Tabulas Heraclienfes, fol. 1754. His fcrip- 
tural ftudies gave rife to a publication entitled “ Spicile- 
gium Biblicum,” 3 tom. 410. 1763, 1778, of which the 
two firff relate to the Old Teftame’ivr, the lalt to the New. 
In this work there is a great variety of illullration of the 
facred writings, drawn from the principal profane writers 
of antiquity; together with a mafs of other learning, by 
which the fubjeCl is fometimes rather overwhelmed than 
elucidated, and the requifite order and method is im¬ 
paired. Thefe faults are alfo difcoverable in feveral of 
liis antiquarian works, in which copioufnefs of erudition 
is more confpicuous than the judicious ufe made of it. 
His lad printed work was a collection of Opufcula, con¬ 
taining Orations, Dedications, Epiflles, Poems, Differta- 
tions, &c. in 2 vols. 4to. 1771, 1775. He left others pre¬ 
pared for the prefs, among which lie himfelf particularly 
valued thofe relative to Hebrew poetry and Jewitli anti¬ 
quities. Though naturally of a delicate conltitution, ha 
was enabled to continue his literary labours without in- 
termiflion to an advanced age. He then fell into a date 
of deplorable mental imbecility, under which his life was 
protrailed to the age of eighty-fix. He died at Naples in 
1771, and was buried at the church of St. Redituta, where 
a monument was erefled to his memory by one of his 
nephews. Mazochi was a man void of ambition, and at¬ 
tached to a retired, fober, and dudious, life; grave, taci¬ 
turn, and exa< 5 t in the performance of his religious duties. 
He bequeathed to the poor his library, and the little mo- 
ney he had accumulated. Eabroni Vita Italor. 
MAZONO'MUS, f. Among the ancients, a very large 
diffi, commonly of wood, in which the maza (fee p. jSi) 
was ferved. 
MAZOR'BO, one of the iflands in the dogado of Ve¬ 
nice, and podettaria of Torcello, compofed ot three fmall 
iflands united by bridges. There are two pariffi-churches, 
St. Pietro and St. Michele; with a priory, and four nun¬ 
neries. In thefe convents live the mod confiderable of 
the inhabitants of the ifland j and the remainder maintain 
4 themfelves 
