84 , • FLINT GENUS. TWELFTHJPECIES. , A- • ■ Sapphire. rf- Saphir.—Werner. Sapliirus, Wall, t. i. p. 248 Rubious orientalis, Ibid- p. 247.—Topazius orientalis, Ibid■ p. 251.—Rubis d’orient, R. de L. t. 2. p. 212.—Oriental ruby, fapphire, and topaz, Kirov, t. 1. p. 2jo—Sapphir, Rjlner, b. 2. 86. Id. Emm. b. 1. f. 67. &. b. 1. f. 251 ZafFiro et lubin-zaifiro, Nap. p. 113- & 121—Saphir, Broch. 1. p. 207.—Telefie, Hatty, t. 2. p. 480 —Perfect corun dum, Greville and Bournon. London Pbilof. Tranf. 179^ & 1802. , External Charafiers. Its principal colour is Berlin blue; but it occur 5 alfo red, and of all the intermediate varieties that exift between thefe two principal colours. It pafles 011 the one fide into indigo blue, on the other into azure» violet, lavender, lilac, and Iky blue, and further in f0 deep green ; from the lilac blue it paffes into peach- bloflbm red, crimfon red, cochineal red, and very rarely into carmine red; from the peach-blofl'om red it pafles into rofe red and reddifh white j it has bee n