OLA 
ory of Attila” and “A Defcription of Hun- 
LAM, 1 in Geography, ariver 7 rifes in Thibet, and 
sale into the province of Chen-fi, in China, changes its 
ai-tong, and peek it itfelf in the Hoang. 
N. ae 36° 10", E.long. 102° 
LAND, a {mall ifland of Dibnark, in the North fea ; 
eight miles N. of Nordftrand. 
OLANE, in Ancient Geography, atown of Afia, in the 
mountains of the Greater Armenia, and in the fis of 
Artaxata. 
ral 
ANGO, in Geography, a {mall ifland sens the Phi- 
o° 33’. E. 
lippines, near the E. coaft of Siba. N. lat 
long. 123° 51! 
OLANOW, a town of Poland, in Volhynia; 28 miles 
S.W. of Berdiczow. 
OLAN-POULAC, a town of Thibet ; 
Haralope-pai. 
75 miles N. of 
ES, a town of France, in the department 
of the Herault, - chief place of a canton, in the diftn& 
of St. Pons; io miles N.E. of St. Pons. The place 
anton 9272 inhabitants, on a terri- 
contains 10 peane N. lat. 43° 33! 
c 
tory of 31 23 etiomeres, in 12 communes. 
E. ton ng. 
OLARTE, Fr. Disco pe, in Biography, * = ” fays 
Mr. Southey, “a townfman and fervant of Cortes, whom 
he accompanied to Mexico, and bore his fhare in ae guilt 
and the glory of that wonderful, but atrocious conquett. 
Olarte, however, enjoyed none of the fpoils; and made the 
beft atonement he could to the Mexicans, by entering the 
Francifcan order, and living the life of a miffionary among 
them forty years, infli@ing upon himfelf during all that time 
” 
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afterwards provincial. 
fent to proceed again o Spai 
a fufpeCted per ery ; he pee ifelé Tatinfaétonty of the 
charge, and returned with the of comifa ario-general of 
New Spain. ah the ones ae the voyage, and the anxiety 
which he had undergone, was too much for his old age, and 
he died fhortly after his Biel in 1569, 
O » in Geogr see a town of ari ae in 
the government of gi ivas; 10 miles S. of 
LASSGUNGE, a oun of Hindoottan, in Bahar ; 
32 miles S. of Patna. N. lat. 25°5'. E. long. 85° 20 
OLAVI S, the Count de, 1 Biography, was _bom 
in Spanifh fences, but had his education at Madrid 
panied in his embafly to France. 
Charles I1I. created him count, and appointed him to the 
office of fuperintendant of Seville. He undertcok the 
great work of fertilizing the aan Morena, or Black 
Mountain, a completely defert region. By his perfeverance, 
and with the aid of the colonies of Germans which he carried 
thither, it aflumed anew face. Notwi ithftanding the benefits 
which he had thus rendered his country, he fell into difgrace, 
and was fent to prifon, from whence he effeéted his efcape to 
Venice, where he died at the age of fixty-five. A work 
entitled «* El Evangelio en Triumf,” or “The oe of 
the Gofpei,’’ in four volumes, gto. is attributed to 
O » in Botany, fo called, as Linnzus, the sitor of 
VoL, ¥XYV. 
OLA 
the name informs us, from wazz, 2 furrow; but how it ap- 
plies to the plant we are not informed ; nor is the difficulty of 
the queftion leffened by the name being ranged, in Phil. Bot. 
184, among thofe which allude to the medicinal effeé&t of the 
plants that bear them.—Linn. Gen. 22. Schreb. is Willd. 
. Pl. v. 1. 185. Mart. Mill. 
Brown. Prodr. 
andria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Sapote, Juff. Santalaceis 
affine, Brown, 
Cal. Perianth — of one leaf, hemi- 
heed: undivided, entire, permanen 
combined in 
obtufe, equal. 
mbining the pet ort; anthers heart-fhaped ere& ; 
rren filam » longer, moftly forked, one inferted into 
the middle of each petal. Pit. Germen fuperior, roundifh ; 
yle thread-fhaped, fhorter than the corolla; 
{curely three-lobed. Peric. Drupa ole in “the man 
calyx. Seed Nut cruftaceous, of one cell. 
Ef h. Calyx undivided. Petals fix, cohering in pairs 
by the ftamens. Barren filaments fix. Drupainvefted with 
the enlarged calyx 
. The pe aie are, in fome cafes, but five, and pie 
vary in ‘their degree or mode of connection. Mr. Brown ob- 
ferves that the New Holland f{pecies have the barren alscienta 
fimple, not forked, and only five petals, one of which is not 
connected with the reft. ‘The flowers are fometimes poly. 
etd: 
eylanica. Linn. Sp. Pl. 48.— Leaves hae 
sored, raleens on both fides. 
of Ceylon 
inrean herbarium, 
T he branches are 
with one rib and feveral finc cranfverfe veins. Flowers in 
little axillary orked panicies, quite fmooth in naa part. 
Vahl defcribes aa oe as foe sere ’ vein 
2 oxb man 2. TO2 
Leaves elliptical, oben : ine beneath, Cay minutely 
ed,---Native orefts on the Coromandel, 
lowering all the ee round, 
eee 
laft, but elliptical, two-ranked, owny eng 
oe fmooth by age. eee in fhort axailary clufte 
whitifh imail. Fruit yellow, ‘p: Py, invefted with the en- 
ae coloured, but fcarcely pe pys calyx. 
fitacorum. Vahl. Enum. v. 2. 33. (Fiffilia pfit- 
tacorum ; 3 Lamarck Lluftr. 102. t. 28.)—Leaves elliptic. 
lanceolate, very fmooth. Branches round. Gathered by 
Commerfon in the ifie of Bourbon, and by Koenig in Ceylon. 
A bufhy ¢ree, with round, {mooth, rather zigzag branches, 
Leaves on very fhort ftalks, fmooth and even, rather coria- 
currant, partly covered by the apparently oy calyx, fe 
unlike the fruit of the Yew, at leaft in fh 
4. QO. Phyllanthi. Brown. n. 1. 
lanthi ; Labill Nov. Holl. v. 2. 84. t. 23 
tical, emarginate. Stalks feele sae — Native of the 
fouth coaft of New Holland. na Jorub about fix feet “high, 
3C with 
pomeaaa Phyl. 
) sei sellip- 
