botany; a genus of the pentandria order, belonging to the monadelphia class of plants. The calyx is five-toothed; the corolla funnel-shaped and quinquifid; there are five antherae fitting on the tube of the germ; there is one style; the capsule trilocular and polyspermous.

Leri (John de), a Protestant minister of the province of Burgundy. He was studying at Geneva when it was reported there that Villegagnon desired they would send him some pastors into Brazil. He made that voyage with two ministers, whom the church of Geneva sent thither in 1556; and wrote an account of that voyage, which has been much commended by Thuanus and others.