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the deepty-divided ftipules, and the roughnefs of the 
tipper fide of its leaves, whole under fide is paler and 
more foltly downy. Rumphius lays the branches yield a 
limpid and pleafant fluid, which by keeping turns {lightly 
bitter and aftringent; and that the flowers are white, 
with a mixture of yellow, but without any peculiar fmell. 
10. Nauclea aculeata, or Guiana nauclea: leaves ovate, 
pointed, Jinooth ; Hem climbing; branches quadrangular; 
ftipules triangular, undivided; flower-ftalks axillary, 
becoming hooked comprefl'ed fpines. Gathered by Aublet 
on the banks of creeks and rivers in Guiana,' flowering 
in May and June. This has a great affinity to the three 
lad, as the editors of Aublet have noticed. It mod 
refembles N. acida, in its fquare branches, finooth leaves, 
and comprefl'ed greatly-recurved fpines; hut differs effen- 
tially in having undivided ftipules. Aublet fays it climbs 
to the tops of the loftied trees, crowning them with 
flowers, which are extremely variable in colour, being 
either yellow, white, or of a more or lefs deep red, with a 
very fweet fmell. The fruit is laid to be loft and blue, the 
fize of a red goofeberry, but of two cells, feparated by 
a membrane, to which are attached numerous hard coria¬ 
ceous black feeds. 
11. Nauclea fclerophylla, or rigid-leaved nauclea : leaves 
elliptical, fcarcely pointed, Ihining, rigid: reticulated 
and rough beneath ; deni climbing; branches quadran¬ 
gular, downy; dipules lunate, divided; flower-balks 
axillary, comprefl'ed, downy, becoming hooked fpines. 
Communicated by Mr. Hunter, from the top of the hill at 
Soongey Clooan, Prince of Wales’s Ifland. This is truly 
a magnificent fpecies, remarkable for the great fize of all 
its parts. The branches and ftalks are all clothed with 
an extremely-fine dole ferruginous down. Leaves five 
inches long, and three bro.ad, flightly heart-fliaped at the 
bale, wavy, but hardly crenate, with a very flight blunt 
point; their fubdance rigid and coriaceous ; their upper 
■fide fmooth as if varnilhed ; the under pale, opaque, with 
innumerable repeatedly-fubdivided, reticulated, parallel, 
prominent, minutely-rough, veins, between which the 
whole leaf is exquifitely dotted. Flow’er-dalks two 
inches long, bout, rigid, r.udy, comprefl'ed ; finally re¬ 
curved and pointed. Head of flowers above two inches 
in diameter, with fix lanceolate whorled deciduous bra&es 
under it, at the joint of the ftalk ; calyx coriaceous ; co¬ 
rolla clothed with long, prominent,Ihining, tawny, briftles. 
12. Nauclea cordifolia, or heart-leaved nauclea: leaves 
lieart-lhaped, pointed, downy; Item ereft; ftipules obo- 
vate, undivided; flower-ftalks axillary, downy, ufually 
in pairs. Communicated by Dr. Roxburgh, from the 
mountainous parts of the coad of Coromandel, where it 
flowers in the wet feal'on, the feeds ripening about April. 
The natives call it dculuga. This is a large and valuable 
timber-tree, very different in habit from all we have hi¬ 
therto defcribed in this fe&ion. The wood is yellow, ex¬ 
ceedingly beautiful, like box, but lighter, and at the 
fame time very clofe-grained. It is excellent for furni¬ 
ture, but not lading when expofed to wet. The branches 
form a very large fliady head, and are roundifh, fomewhat 
eompreffed, tortuous, downy when young. Leaves on 
downy balks, which are about two inches long, of a 
roundifh heart-fliaped figure, thin and pliant, five or fix 
inches long when full-grown, and nearly as broad ; entire, 
wavy, bright green; roughifh above, paler and downy 
beneath; with one rib, and numerous forked veins, 
whofe ultimate ramifications are finely reticulated. Head 
of flowers about an inch in diameter, yellowifh. Dr. 
Roxburgh fays the number of flower-ftalks varies from 
one to four. • 
13. Nauclea adina, or myrtle-leaved nauclea: leaves 
elliptic-lanceolate, pointed, fmooth ; item ere<!b ; ftipules 
deeply divided, acute; flower-ftalks axillary, downy, 
folitary. Native of China. It is faid to have come up 
in the earth of fome plants fent from Canton to the 
late Rt. Hon. Charles Greville, with whom it flowered 
in July and Auguft. The Item is flmibby, round, with 
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numerous oppofite fpreading flender branches, minutely 
downy when young. Leaves on ffiort ftalks, elliptic-lan¬ 
ceolate, two inches long, entire, thin, fmooth, mode¬ 
rately veiny, tapering at the bafe, terminating in a blunt 
point. The head of flowers is fmaller than in the laft,yel- 
lowi-'i. Salijb.Farad. 116. lioxb. vol.i. Finn. Trauf. vol. ix. 
NAUCRA'RI, f. among the Athenians, was the name 
given to the chief-magiftrates of the “ boroughs or 
townfhips;” which were likewife called vavy.pagica, be- 
caufe each was obliged, beiides two horfemen, to furnirti 
out one fhip for the public fervice. 
NAU'CRATES, a Greek poet, who was employed by 
Artemifia to write a panegyric upon Manfolus. — An 
orator who endeavoured to alienate the cities of Lycia 
from the interefl of Brutus. 
NAU'CRATIS, in ancient geography, a city of Egypt, 
on the left fide of the Canopic mouth of the Nile. It was 
celebrated for its commerce; and no fliip was permitted 
to land at any other place, but was obliged to fail direflly 
to the city, there to depoiit its cargo. It gave birth to 
Athenaeus. 
NAUCR ATI'TES NO'MOS, a divifion of the Delta, 
fo called from the above town. 
NAU'CYDES, a ftatuary who lived about four centu¬ 
ries before the Chriftian era. 
NAUDE' (Gabriel), a philofopher and man of letters, 
was born at Paris in 1600. Ele received his elementary 
education in a religious community, and then ftudied at 
the univerfity of Paris, where he took the degree of M. A. 
Having commenced thelludy of medicine, he was fora time 
interrupted in it by accepting the office of librarian to 
Henry de Mefmes, prefident a mortier in the parliament 
of Paris. This he religned in 1626, and went to Padua 
to complete his medical ftudies. The death of his father 
recalled him to Paris, where the faculty of medicine chofe 
him to deliver the annual difcourfe on the reception of 
licentiates, on which occaflon he wrote and printed his 
oration “ De Antiquitate & Dignitate Scholae Medicse 
Parifienfis.” His views, however, do not leem to have 
been diredded to the practice of phyfic ; for he attached 
himfelf to the cardinal de Bagni as his librarian and Latin 
fecretary, and accompanied him to Rome in 1631. Hav¬ 
ing been appointed titular phyfician to Louis XIII. he 
took his do< 5 for’s degree at Padua in 1633; he however 
continued with the cardinal de Bagni at Rome till the 
death of that prelate in 1641. He then remained fome 
time with cardinal Barberini; but, being recalled by 
cardinal Richelieu, he returned to Paris in 1642. Be¬ 
fore his return, he had been defired by cardinal Ri¬ 
chelieu to make inquiries refpefting the true author 
of the celebrated work “ De Imitatione Chrifti,” which 
the Benedidfines of St. Maur chofe to attribute to John 
Gerfon, a monk of their order. Naude’s relearches were 
unfavourable to his claim; and a canon of St. Genevieve 
gave an edition of the book under the name of Thomas 
a Kempis, prefixing to it Naude’s account of his exami¬ 
nation of the manufcripts in Italy, upon which he had 
decided againft Gerfon. The Benedictines, highly ir¬ 
ritated at this procedure, calumniated Maude with hav¬ 
ing falfified the manufcripts, and fold his teftimony to the 
canons of St. Genevieve fora priory ; and a warm con- 
troverly was carried on for feveral years on the fubjedt, 
till both parties became ridiculous. A legal decifion at 
length jultified Naude, and adjudged the work to Thomas 
a Kempis. 
After the death of Richelieu, Naude was engaged by 
cardinal Mazarin as his librarian ; and entirely formed for 
him a noble library, amounting in feven years to forty 
thouland volumes. He had the chagrin to witnefs its 
dilperfion when the cardinal was obliged to quit France; 
and he purchafed out of it all the medical books. Ma¬ 
zarin rewarded his. fervices by two fmall benefices. On 
becoming unemployed, he accepted an invitation from 
queen Chriltina of,Sweden to take the office of her libra¬ 
rian ; but he foon refigned it, through dillike of the cli¬ 
mate. 
