Maoutia (maotia), tia)

[NL. (Weddell, 1854), named after E. Lemaout, a French botanist.) A genus of urticaceous plants, belonging to the tribe Urticeæ and the subtribe Bahmeriea. It is characterized by the minutene or absence of the perianth in the female flowers, by flowers borne in small panicled heads, and by tufted or plumose stigmas. There are 8 species, natives of eastern India, the Malay archipelago, and the South Pacific islands. They are shrubs with alternate petioled leaves that are sometimes three-nerved and crenate; the flowers are small, disposed in little heads, generally in the axils of the leaves, sometimes terminal. See gra - cloth and pood. mapl (map), п. [Early mod. E. mappe, OF. mappe monde, > ME. mappemounde, q. v.), a map of the world, a map being compared, with regard to its folding or to its being spread out on a table, to a napkin or table-cloth. The L. mappa became corrupted in ML. to napa, > ult. E. napery, napkin, and napron, apron, q. v.] 1. A drawing upon a plane surface representing a part or the whole of the earth's surface or of the heavens, every point of the drawing corresponding to some geographical or celestial position, according to some law, of perspective, etc., which is called the projection, or, better, the map -projection. See projection. A map of the earth, or of a part of the earth, frequently exhibits merely the positions of countries, mountains, rivers, lakes, cities, etc., relative tong it another the list of late tude and relatively to every point on earth's surface. Maps may be so colored or shaded as to give a variety of information: for example, to indicate the geological structure, the amount of rainfall, the principal productions, or the languages spoken. There are thus geological, meteorological, linguistic, faunal, and other kinds of maps. In maps on a large scale, or those which are the Not such maps as you wash houses with, but maps of countries. Middle ton , Spanish Gypsy, ii. 2.