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and plaited. Berry fpherical, crowned with the feflile 
ftigma, which has from four to fix grooves, fucculent, 
many-celled: partitions membranaceous, very thin, l'ub- 
divided towards the periphery, when the cells are un¬ 
equal and irregular. Seeds very fmooth and Alining, 
whitiih or pale ftraw-colour, neftling in the pulp, with¬ 
out any receptacle. According to Jacquin, the berry 
is rofe-coloured with a tinge of yellow, and when cut 
tranfverfely feems to be one-celled, but, if the pulp and 
feeds be gently prefled out in water, it appears very 
clearly to be five-celled. Sloane fays, the fruit is as big 
as a cherry ; and Miller, that it is as large as that of the 
cockfpur hawthorn ; of a dark purple colour, when ripe. 
Native of Jamaica, on the calcareous fubalpine hills, 
flowering in.the lpring ; and of St. Domingo, in the wet 
parts of woods, flowering in Auguft and September. This 
is not the mullam tocldali of Rheede Hort. Malab. as Lin¬ 
naeus thought it was; for that is of a different genus, 
and has nothing in common with Muntingia calabura, 
but a flight agreement in the leaves. 
The feeds of this plant were fent by Mr. Robert Millar 
from Jamaica, which lucceeded in fome of the Englifli 
gardens, being fown in pots filled with light rich earth, 
and plunged into a moderate hot-bed of tanner’s bark. 
In warm weather the glaffes ffiould be raifed to admit 
frelh air; but the feeds will often remain in the ground a 
whole year before the plants will appear; in which cafe 
the pots mull be kept conftantly clear from weeds, and 
fliould remain in the hot-bed till after Michaelmas, 
when they may be removed into the ftove, and plunged 
into the bark-bed, between other pots of tall plants, 
where they may remain during the winter feafon. Thefe 
pots fliould be now and then watered, when the earth 
appears dry; and in the beginning of March the pots 
fliould be removed out of the ftove, and placed in a frelh 
bark-bed under frames, which will bring up the plants 
foon after. When the plants are come up about two 
inches high, they fliould be carefully taken out of the 
pots, and each planted into a feparate fmall pot filled 
with light rich earth, and then plunged into the hot-bed 
again, obferving to fliade them from the lun until they 
have taken new root, after which time they fliould be 
duly watered, and in warm weather they mult have a 
large Ihare of frelh air. In this liot-bed the plants may 
remain until autumn, when the nights begin to be cold ; 
at which time they fliould be removed into the ftove, and 
plunged into the bark-bed. During the winter feafon 
thefe plants mull be kept warm, efpecially while they are 
young, and frequently refreftied with water; but it mull 
not be given to them in large quantities, left it rot the 
tender fibres of their roots. It will be proper to con¬ 
tinue thefe plants in the ftove all the year, but in warm 
weather they fliould have a large fhare of frelh air; but, as 
the plants grow in ftrength, they will be more hardy, and 
may be expofed in fummer for two or three months, and 
in winter will live in a dry ftove, if kept in a moderate 
degree of heat. 
MUNTISSUR', a town of Bengal: twenty miles north- 
tall of Burdwan. 
MUNYCH'IA, or Munich'ius Por/tus, in ancient 
geography, a village and port of Attica, between the 
Pirasus and the promontory of Sunium, called after king 
Munychus, who built there a temple to Diana, and in 
whole honour he inllituted feftivals called Munychia. 
The temple was held fo facred, that whatever criminals 
fled there for refuge were pardoned. During the feftivals 
they offered fmall cakes which they called amphipkontes, 
or “ fliining all round,” became there were lighted torches 
hung round when they were carried to the temple, or 
becaufe they were offered at the full moon, at which time 
the folemnity was obferved. It was particularly in honour 
of Diana, who is the fame as the Moon, becaufe it was 
full moon when Themiftocles conquered the Perfian fleet 
at Salamis. The port of Munychia was well fortified, 
and of great confequence; therefore the Lacedaemonians, 
Von. XVI. No. U04. 
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when fovereigns of Greece, always kept a regular gar- 
rifon there. 
MUNYCH'IA, an anniverfary folemnity obferved at 
Athens, in honour of Diana, on the 16th of the month 
Munychion. 
MUNYCII'ION, the tenth month of the Athenian 
year, containing twenty-nine days, and anfwering to the 
latter part of our March and the beginning of April. 
It was fo called from the fellival Munychia, juft men¬ 
tioned. 
MUN'ZENBERG, a town of Germany, in the county 
of Hanau Munzenberg: nineteen miles fouth-eaft of 
Wetzlar, and feventeen north of Hanau. 
MUODGUR', a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Cicacole: eighteen miles north-north-weft of Ganjam. 
MUO'NIO, a river which rifes in the mountains of 
Norway, and, palling foutherly through Swedilh Lapland, 
joins the Tornea in lat. 67. 12. N. 
MUPH'TI. See Mufti, p. 165, 6. 
MUR, a town of France, in the department of the 
North Coafts : nine miles weft of Loudeac, and twenty- 
one fouth of Guingamp. 
MUR de BAR'RES, a town of France, and principal 
place of a diftridl, in the department of the Aveiron : 
thirty miles north of Rhodez, and thirty north-eaft of 
Figeac. Lat. 44. 51. N. Ion. 2. 44. E. 
MU'RA, a river of Rufiia, which runs into the Tun- 
gulka nearly oppofite Mureka. 
MU'RA, a town of Sicily, in the valley of Noto: fifteen 
miles fouth of Modica. 
MURABA', a Brahman of the city of Poona, the 
capital of the Mahratta empire, in whofe perfon and de- 
fcendants is exhibited an extraordinary inftance of priell- 
craft and fuperftition. He was of the fe6t of Guflain, or 
more correftly Gofwami; and is reported to have been 
fo pious, that the god Ganefa rewarded him by incar¬ 
nating himfelf in his perfon, and covenanting that the 
divinity fliould defcend to his children to the feventh 
generation : empowering the incumbent to work miracles, 
and, in a limited degree, to look into futurity. With 
this divine patrimony is inherited the guardianfliip of a 
facred Hone, a type of the Deity. In the year 1800, the 
venerated incumbent was vifited by lord George Berel- 
ford, field-marlhal Beresford, and Mr. Moor, the author 
of the Hindu Pantheon. The latter furnilhed a detailed 
account of this perfon, family, and" vifit, to the Afiatic 
Society, which is publiflied in the 7th volume of their 
Tranfa&ions, under the title of “ Account of an heredi¬ 
tary living Deity, to whom devotion is paid by the Brah¬ 
mans of Poona and its neighbourhood.” The incar¬ 
nation is reprefented to have taken place about the year 
1640, and at the period of the above vifit five generations 
had palled away. Gabaji Deva, that is, the Divine Gabaji, 
was the then incumbent. He has fince died; and it is 
agreed by the Brahmans, that the avatara, or manifefla- 
tion, (fee Maya,) will end with the life of the next in- 
fpired portion of carnality, unlefs perpetuated or renewed 
by a farther miraculous interpolition of the divine will. 
Great refpe£l, indeed adoration, is paid by the Pelhwa, 
and of courfe all other Brahmans about Poona, to this 
fan£lified inheritor of the gift of prophecy, as related at 
length, with many other particulars of grofs fuperftition, 
in the article above referred to. Lord Valentia has more 
recently vifited this venerated perfonage, who refides in 
the abode of his anceftors at the town of Chincur, about 
a dozen miles from Poona; and has given the particulars 
of his vifit in the fecond volume of his Travels. The 
Hindoo deity Ganefa, thus incarnated, is the god of pru¬ 
dence and policy: lie is otherwife called Pollear, or 
Poleyar; and is always reprefented with the head of an 
elephant, generally with four arms, but olherwife as a 
man ; fometimes mounted on a rat or moufe, or with 
that animal befide him, it being deemed in India a very 
fagacious animal, and the elephant proverbially fo. He 
is deemed the offspring of Siva and Parvati 5 and is often 
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