28 of which he southern (, tB) is the junction-star. Four of these must be blue bright stars in the neck and side of the Lion, or , , ५, and L6omis, of magnitude8 4.5, 2, 8.4, and 1.2 respectively; but which should be the fifth is not onay to determine, for blhere is no other single star which seems to form naturally a member of the sum group with these: v (5), । (5), or p (4} might be forced into a connection with them. big if_culty would be removed by adopting, with the Khanda-Kataka, six as the number of starg included in the asterisrm : it would bhen be composed of all the stars forming the conspicuous constellation tamiliarly known as the Sickle. Ihe star n Jaonis, or Regulus, the most brilliant of the groupis the jurctin-kay, and its position is defined with unusual , precision : Magh Regul08 12 199° 40’ 0° 27'N. -4.8 he tenth none; nj-Jabbah, the forehead of he Lion=-ig also composed of K, }V m, a Leonis. he eighbh, ninth, and tenth sieu of the Chinese system oltogether disagree in position with the group marking the Hindu and Arab mansions, ing situated faz to the southward of the ecliptic, in proximity, according to Biot, to the equator of the period when they were established. The eighth, Sing, is a THydry (2), having longitude (A.D. 560) 127 18. latitude 22° 25 S. 11, 12. Phalgen; or, as plural, phttlgango3; the dual, phalyyydae is also found: this treatise presents the derivative forn philgy? , which not infrequently employed elsewhere. The word is likewiBe used to designate a species of fig-troe ; its derivation, and its neaning, as opplied to the astorismsis unknown to us. Here, as in =wo other instances, labet (the 20th and 21st, and the 28th and 27th asterism18), we have bwo groups called by the same name , and distinguished from one another ts pror and ¢t%7, former and '+ latter -that is to say, COming earlier td later to thoir meridian-transit. The true original character and composition of these three double nsterisms has been, if we are not mistaken , not १ ittle nltoed and obscured in the descriptioB of them furnished to ug owing, pparently, to the ignorance ory carelessness of the describers, and especially to their not having clearly distinguished the characteristics of the combined constellation frorn those of its separnte parts. In engh case a couch or bedstead ¢y]t, whica, prgoAR) is given as the fige of one or both of the parts, and we hecognize in them all the common characteristic of n constellation of four stars, forming together a regular oblong igure, which adnits of being represented--not unsuitobly, if gather prosaically---by a bed ५his figure, in the case of the Phalganis, is composed of 8, 8, 3, an 88 Leonis, a very distinct an well-marked constellation, containing two sta1, 6 and 8, of the second to hirएँ magnitude, one, 8, of the third,
