OMP 
which they call a and which they fell to the grandees 
alfo 
of the place. make little flatues, or images, 
called aul, ene they conf as oracles, our : which they 
afcribe various powers the h, deftroying 
enemies, &c ey ae public {chools, cs they teach 
their fuperftitions aa fortileges. 
The ompitfiquili pra@tife geomancy, and are moftly con- 
fulted on difeafes, and the fuccefs of affairs; refolving al 
queftions by ae drawn on a little table covered with 
of four or cnn es. 
n i name to a ki 7 of al pre- 
tended to be drawn from olives, while yet green and four. 
But Pomet charges it as an impofture, adding that olives yield 
no oil at all till perfectly ripe. 
OMPHACITIS, a name given by naturalifts to a {mall 
fort of bey of the oak. 
sneeasar wie a fort of oxymel made of the juice 
of sie grapes and hon 
OMPHALEA, in Bots tany,a name altered by Linnzus, - 
genus having been originally called Omphalandria, in Browne 
Hittory of Jamaica, p. 334. The word is derived from Once 
en. 479. Schreb. 657. Wi p- Pl. v. 4. 569. ete 
rodr. 95. Obf.349. Mart. Mill. Di@.v. 3. Juff. 
Lamarck Did. v. 4. 548. Illultr. t. 753. Aubl. Gunn: 
842.—Clafs and order, Monae Monadelphia. Nat. Ord 
—— et Euphorbia 
Gen. Ch. Male Flowers, Cal. Perianth inferior, of four 
or five —_ {preading soe the two oppofite ones larger, 
convex, coloured. Cor. of four glands ; 
= en 
Perianth by of five leaves, aus of them 
larger, ovate, furrounding the germen. Cor. none. Pif. 
&n fuperior, roundifh, very fhort; ftyle a. ete 
three-cleft, broadifh, obtufe. Peric. "Capfule oblong or 
roundi efhy, obtafely triangular, of aia cells and 
three valves. Seed. Nuts folitary, ovate, 
Eff. Ch. Male, Calyx of fo palit "Corolla e 
Neétary a flefhy ring. Filament columnar, the anthers in- 
fertedinto it. Female, Calyx “of five leaves. Corolla none. 
ae three-cleft. Capfule fiefhy, three-celled. Nuts fo- 
litar 
I. "o, diandra. Linn. 1377. Aubl, Guian. 
Sp. Pl. 1 
t. 328. (O. cordatas Swartz. Prodr. gs. Obf. Onm- 
phalandria Paes diffufa, foliis amplionibus ovatis, pe- 
tiolis biglandulis, sore terminalibus ; Browne Jam. 334. 
ae: {ters compound, lea ny erminal. Leaves {cattered, 
Stem 
eae _Native of roc 7, fhrubby {pots in Jamaica, a nd 
erging. Leaves alterna ate, 
hick, entire, 
flowers, {mall and gre 
lowith, bees three brittle. es iy opie sigue r 
kernels. 
2. O. triandra. . Sp. Pl. 1377. Amoen. Aca 
v. 5-408. (Q. Pee ae Prodr. 95. Obf. ee 
OMP 
t.10.f. 6. Omphalandria foliis obovatis glabris, ad bafia 
breladilies floribus triandris ; Browne Jam. 335, but not 
his t. 22. f. 4, according to Swartz.) fters compound, 
leafy, terminal. Leaves oblong, biglandular at the bafe. 
tem ar s.—Na ds in Jamaica, and not un- 
ellow inembrane. The 
nat _ are highly flavoured, are efculent ; and the ftalks 
a nches emit an aqueous fluid. The E Englif at Jamai- 
ca a this tree Cobnut, and the es fail i ett 
means fatisfactory, as his other two diandrous ones are now 
made a new genus, £piffylium, in a FL. Ind. Occ. 1095. 
OMPHALOBIUM, focalled by Gertner, from on a- 
— fs _ ba AoBosy a foe or legume, is, zs we miftake 
othe oo. monocarpus of Linneus. Juf- 
few percived i. ratiaty to C. afri eine fee his 4535 
and G 6. a de paisa Gi on iveack 
ertn The name alludes 
fide of the ey or umbilicus, of t e fee 
OMPHALOCELE, from ere ocy t the vel, and xxAn, 
a fwelling, a Sere in Surgery, diitving a oe of the 
ERNI 
a 
navel. See 
umbilicated form of their feed-cafes, and in other refpects 
differ greatly from Cynoglofium. 
e fame word is retained as the f{pecific appellation 
Lichen, t to » which | it is y no means exclufively iatable 
it aillant. 
Thet term is ah soplieable to the fhields of a great num- 
ber of peer icislie {pecies, at fome period or other of their 
owt 
LOMANT 
Ww 
OMPHA TIA, a word ufed by fome authors 
to exprefs a fort of divination seas to by the — 
and old women, of telling how many more children a woma 
is to have, by examining the hee of knots on the ume- 
bilical cord. 
OMPHALOPTER, or Ompuatopric, in Optics, a glafs 
fi is convex on both fides, popularly called a convex 
a 
OMPHALOTOMIA, from ou.Paros, and tev to cuts 
the operation of dividing the navel- ring. 
OMPHALU Asad ENTEROMPHALUS, EXOMPHALUS, 
and Hypromp 
Omer tie in a Naud Hiffory, aterm ufed by the 
cients to exprefs what they at other times call embuncaain in 
ones; that ve a {mall round and prominent {pot, i 
centre of the ftone. 
The er which was a kind of oculus beli found i in 
fo in other ftones. The wor e fame origin, 
and are ufed to exprefs its being like the eaten, or prominent 
iece, in the middle of a fhield called by the Greeke omphalos, 
and by the Latins umbo. 
OMPHAX, the name the ancients gave to a gem of the 
3G2 pellucida 
