OCH 
Stam. Filament one, cylindrical; anthers five, large, linear, 
connate, marke the outfide with zigzag furrows. Pi? 
ermen mare oblong ; ftyle thread-fhaped, inclofed by 
the filamen 7 
dort 
ouble ; outer of three leaves. Anthers 
Capfule five-celled, and 
Calyx 
ute, ameg tasly farcowed. 
many-{feede = 
Down — 
Swartz Prodr. AG. 
o 
kG ini lana obvolutis ; 
286.)—-Found in watte places on -the hills of ame and 
Hifpaniola, where its beautiful lowers expand in February, 
and its capfules ripen in Ma e think it flowered in 
great perfeGtion, about two years fince, in the ftove of 
B. Lambert Efq. V. .S., at Boyton in Wilt 
fhire. 
The trunk of this tree is from twenty to forty fet in height, 
about twelve inches in diam 
ine] 
Py 
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AY 
1 
"The growth of this tree is faid to be very rapid, and its 
wood fo light as to become a fubftitute for cork. The 
woollinefs of its feeds is particularly fine and filky, and is 
much ufed in the manufafture of fine hats. 
ROPUS Ga ttinuza, in i 
which many authors bay called a 
by the name of trin See TRI 
ithology, a name by 
bird more eae known 
INGA Ochropu 
tery ies among sales and high a See Furica 
Flavipes. 
ee dae in Botany, fo called by Juffieu, from 
o;, pale. Juff. 145. fhrub found by Commerfon in 
x ifle of Bourbon: where it is known by the name of Bors 
jaune, or Yellow wood. The /eaves are three or four in a 
Flowers in axillary or terminal forked corymbs. 
Calyx minute, five-toothed. Corolla tubular, funnel-thaped ; 
its limb in five deep fpreading fegments. Style one; fligma 
tumic. Follicles divaricated, drupaceous, ovate, each with 
a bilocular nut, with two or three kernels in each cell. 
Seeds unequal, flat, fcarcely membranous at the fummit. 
Juffieu refers this genus to his eae before Tader- 
ait li to es and to Rauwolfia he efteems it nearly 
VoL. XXV. 
OCI 
OCHROXYLUM, a genus known only from Schreber, 
who had originally called it Curtifia, in commemoration of 
the well-known botanift of that name, but upon finding the 
fame honour had previoufly been conferred on Mr. Curtis, 
in the Hortus Kewenfis, Schreber changed the name to 
Bikar derived we aaa tig xo Evrov, — 
Schreb. app. 826. Mart. 3.— and 
order, Pentandvia Trigynia. eo Ord. Bim Linn. 
Rhanmni, Juff, 
Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth very {mall, ial od divided 
into five, ovate, acute, fpreading fegmen etals 
five, ovate, re eee » rather obtufe, excavated below. the 
thickifh, with a thinner margin. 
fomewhat three lobed, flefhy gland, Stam. Filaments five, 
awl-fhaped, flattifh in the Ip ower part, erect, a a longer 
than the corolla; anthers roundifh, incumbent. er- 
pan boat- ae ay exteroally ; 
laced on the ne 
a 
proximating, nearly ¢ i 
on howe es of the enlarged nectary, of one cell, burfting 
ardly? Seeds two, convex on one fide, comprefled and 
Sekt on the o 
Ch. C ae five-cleft. Petals five. Netary a 
nular, aaa gland. Capfules? three, aporceraatidn, 
one-celled, eeded 
are ees aware 
of the {pecies of hihi 
concerning it but what we fa 
See Pisum. 
OCHSENBERG, in Geography, a town of Wurtem- 
berg; 12 miles W. of Heilbr 
OCHSENFURT, a town me ‘the duchy of Wurzburg 5 ; 
8 miles S.5.E. of Wurzburg. N. lat. 49° 4’. E. long. 
20° 6 
OCHSENHAUSEN, a town of Germany, near which 
is a princely abbey, founded as a priory in the year 1190, 
and raifed to an abbey in 13913 14 miles S. of Ulm 
OCHSENWERDER, an ifland in the Elbe, about eight 
miles long, and four wide. on which are feveral villages; 
4 miles $.E. of Hamburg. 
TEE, a river which runs into the Wefer, about 
eight miles below Bremen. 
TROP, a town of eta in the bifhopric of 
Munfter; 21 miles N.N.W. of Mun 
R, a town of the ifland oF ‘Sardinia ; 28 miles 
E.S.E. of Saffari. 
OCIMUM, in Botany, Sweet Bafil, wxipev of the Greeks, 
has been fuppofed to owe its name to the ftrong f{cent, for 
which feveral {pecies of this genus are remarkable ; but that 
{cent 1s of too fweet and aromatic a quality, and too famous 
on that account, to accord with the true meaning of the 
verb of. Some derive the word from wxewsy quickly, and 
fuppofe it sind to the rapid germination or-gtowth of the 
plant; a property which others othe attribute to a kind of , 
foddes, termed Ocymum, diftinét from Ocimum, Hence it 
appears that nothing certain ] known on the fubje&. Linn. 
‘ Schreb. 396. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3- ay Mart. 
Mill. Dict. v. 3. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. » 3+ 422. 
. 116. Lamarck Iluftr. t. 514.—Clafs and order, 
resi? ee: Nat. Ord. Verticillate, Linn. 
abiate, 
Gen. ‘Ch, "Cal Perianth apa of one leaf, two-lipped, 
very fhort, iene upper lip flat, roundith, broade 
afcending ; lower in four acute clofe fegments. Cor. of 
one petal, foeeit, reverfed; tube very fhort, {welling up- 
wards; one lip, which is turned uppermoft, broadeft, di- 
vided half way down into a obtufe equal fegments ; Lio 
that igi ever publifhed an account 
ie oe is any thin "8 known 
n his Genera abov 
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