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State of a king. 
I will, alas! be wretched to be great. 
And sigh in royalty , and grieve in state. Prior. 
Emblems of royalty. 
Wherefore do I assume 
These royalties, and not refuseto reign ? Milton. 
ROYALTON, a township of the United States, in Wind¬ 
sor county, Vermont, on White river. Here is a pleasant 
village containing an academy. Population 1758. 
ROYALTON, a township of the United States, in Wor¬ 
cester county, Massachusetts; 70 miles west-north-west of 
Boston. Population 1415. 
ROYALTON, a township of the United States, in Niagara 
county, New York. 
ROYALTON, a village of the United States in Fairfield 
county, Ohio. 
ROYAN, a small town in the west of France, department 
of the Lower Charante, at the mouth of the Gironde, with 
2700 inhabitants. It has a small harbour, and a con¬ 
siderable pilchard fishery; 14 miles south-by-east of 
Marennes. 
ROYDON, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 3 miles 
south-east-by-east of Castle Rising. 
ROYDON, a parish of England, in Suffolk, south-east of 
Hadleigh. 
ROYDON, a village and parish of England, formerly a 
market town in Essex ; 4§ miles west-by-south of Harlow. 
Population 484. 
ROYDON, a parish of England, in Norfolk ; 1| mile 
west of Diss. Population 497. 
ROYE, a small but fortified town in the north of France, 
department of the Somme, on the river Avre, with 3100 inha¬ 
bitants; 28 miles east-by-south of Amiens. 
ROYEN (Adrian Van), a physician and botanist, born 
(probably in Holland) in 1705, succeeded Boerhaave in the 
botanical chair at the University of Leyden, and in the 
direction of the academical garden, which was greatly en¬ 
riched under his care. He was also an elegant scholar, and 
had talents for poetry. When he took the degree of doctor 
in 1728, he printed an inaugural dissertation “ De Anatome 
et Oeconomia Plantarum; and in the following year, on 
taking the chair, he published “ Oratio qua jucunda, untilis 
et necessaria Medicinae Cultoribus commendatur Doctrina 
Botanic?.” He further contributed to recommend botanical 
science by his “ Carmen de Amoribus et Conubiis Planta¬ 
rum,” 1732. When Linnaeus, after his residence with Mr. 
Clifford, was upon the point of quitting Holland in 1737, 
Van Royen prevailed upon that great naturalist to pass some 
months with Him for the purpose of arranging anew the 
botanical garden of the University, and assisting him in the 
compilation of his “ Florae Lejdensis Prodromus,” or cata¬ 
logue of the Plants in that garden. This work appeared in 
1740, 8 vo., and was one of the first that adopted the 
Linnaean nomenclature, though it followed a different 
method of classification from his, and more approaching to 
the natural. The attempt was well received, and the cata¬ 
logue is among the richest of the kind. Adrian Van Royen 
resigned his professorship of botany in 1754, and was suc¬ 
ceeded by his relation David Van Royen. He .died in 
1779. Halleri Bill. Bota?i. 
ROYEN A [named by Linnaeus, in honour of Adrian 
van Royen, a professor of botany at Leyden], in Botany, 
a genus of the class decandria, order digynia, natural order 
of bicornes, guaiacanae, (Juss .)—Generic Character. Ca¬ 
lyx : perianth, one-leaved, pitcher-shaped, five-cleft, perma¬ 
nent. Corolla : one-petalled; tube the length of the calyx; 
border spreading, revolute, five-parted; segments ovate. 
Stamina: filaments ten, very short, fastened to the corolla; 
anthers oblong, acute, twin, erect, the length of the tube. 
Pistils: germ ovate, ending in two styles, a little longer than 
the stamens; stigmas simple. Pericarp: capsule, ovate, 
four-grooved, one-celled, four-valved. — (Berry globular, 
fleshy, four-celled, covered by the permanent corolla, 
Gccrtn.) Seeds: nuts four, oblong, triangular, wrapped in 
ROY 
an aril:—(Seeds solitary, in all four or two, oblong or ellip¬ 
tic, subtriquetrous or plano-convex, Gcertn.)—Essential 
Character. Calyx pitcher-shaped. Corolla one-petalled, 
with the border revolute. Capsule one-celled, four-yalved. 
(Berry four-celled, G.) 
1. Royena lucida, shining leaved Royena, or African blad¬ 
der-nut.—Leaves ovate, somewhat rugged. Height eight or 
ten feet, putting out branches on every side. Leaves alter¬ 
nate, shining, continuing all the year. Flowers from the wings 
of the leaves along the branches, having little beauty.—This 
and all the other species are natives of the Cape of Good 
Hope. This flowers in May and June. 
2. Royena villosa, heart-leaved Royena, or African blad¬ 
der-nut-Leaves cordate, oblong, tomentose underneath. 
This resembles the preceding, but the branches are villose. 
Leaves elliptic or oblong, cordate at the base, tomentose 
underneath, bluntish, on short villose petioles. Flowers 
axillary, nodding, solitary, on villose peduncles the length of 
the flowers. Bractes two, opposite, ovate, acute, pubescent, 
larger than the calyx and immediately under it, deciduous. 
3. Royena pallens, pale Royena, or African bladder-nut. 
—Leaves oblong-obovate, blunt, smooth.—Found at the 
Cape by Thunberg. 
4. Royena glabra, myrtle-leaved Royena, or African blad¬ 
der-nut.—Leaves lanceolate, smooth. This rises with a 
shrubby stalk, five or six feet high, sending out many slen¬ 
der branches, covered with a purplish bark. Leaves less 
than those of the box-tree, entire, of a lucid green, and con¬ 
tinuing all the year. The flowers come out from the wings 
of the leaves round the branches, and are white. Fruit 
roundish, purple, ripening in the winter. It flowers in Sep¬ 
tember. 
5. Royena hirsuta, hairy-leaved Royena, or African 
bladder-nut.— Leaves oblong-lanceolate, somewhat villose. 
This rises with a strong woody stalk seven or eight feet 
high, covered with a grey bark, sending out many small 
branches alternately. Leaves about an inch long, and a 
quarter of an inch broad in the middle, covered with soft 
hairs. The flowers come out on short peduncles from the 
side of the branches; they are of a worn-out purple colour, 
and small. They appear in July, but are not followed by 
seeds in England. 
6. Royena polyandra, or oval-leaved Royena.—Leaves 
elliptic, flowers polygamus, many-stamened.—This was found 
at the Cape by Thunberg, and differs in the disposition of 
the flowers from the other species. 
7. Royena angustifolia, or narrow-leaved Royena.—Leaves 
lanceolate-acute, somewhat hairy underneath. This also is 
very different from all the species hitherto known, in having 
narrow lanceolate leaves, sharp at both ends, and somewhat 
hairy underneath.—It is a native of the same country with 
all the rest. 
Propagation and Culture. —These plants are too tender 
to live through the winter in the open air in England, they 
must be removed therefore into the green-house in autumn, 
and treated in the same way as orange-trees. 
ROQERE, a large village in the interior of France, 
department of Creuse. Population 1000; 25 miles south of 
Gueret. 
ROYMUNGUL, a river of Bengal which falls into the 
Sunderbunds, and is strongly affected by the tides. On its 
banks, the East India Company have a very extensive salt 
manufactory, the produce of which is sold by auction at 
Calcutta. 
To ROYNE. v. a. [rogner, Fr.] To gnaw; to bite. 
Yet did he murmure with rebellious sound, 
And softly royne when savage choler gan redound. 
Spenser. 
RO'YNISH, adj. [rogncux, Fr. mangy, paltry.] Paltry 
sorry, mean, rude. 
The roynish clown, at whom so oft 
Your grace was wont to laugh, is also missing. Shakspeare. 
ROYPOOR, a town of Bengal, district Midnapore. Lat. 
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