OPH 
—Native of send grafly places, near the banks of rivers in 
fpring.— Roots from 
wes oppolite, 
"Fee files ter- 
Flowers in {pikes, feffile, all turned 
one way, feparate, white ; a folitary flower at the forked 
divifion of the flower-ftalk. 
n Swartz’s figure above quoted, the engraver by miftake 
has fubltituted the wrong name for each of the ara aa 
neated, Fig. 1. is Macrocnemum jamaicenfe, and fig. 2. is 
el ae itreola. 
3. a. Willd. n. 3. Forft. Prodr. Fl. Auftr. 
nl. 66. i 9 Leaves rt acute. Umbel 
order, Polygamia Monoecia, or rather Pentandria Monogynia. 
Nat. Ord. a Juff. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, five-cleft, Gada 
of one 
ary oe or o 
fouk of the corolla, “lind 
n the m iddle 
two; a pointe . Pif. 
; ftyle thread-fhaped, the length 
capitate. Peric. Berry twin, two- 
celled. Seeds ame roundifh. 
ff. Ch. Calyx five-cleft. 
Piftil 
oo five-cleft, funnel- 
in Mayen an 
pence i in fours, ftalked 
Flowers glomerate, a white with : re che: 3 occa- 
fionally aa when they have a neCtary like that of Nar- 
ciffus. Berry large and flefhy, two-lobed, of a brick red. 
yertner calls this pect tri rfolatum, and fays aa although 
the defcription given Rumphius in his mboin. 
v. 7- 30, belongs undoubtedly to this sla - that his 
figure muft be another {pecies, for that it has oppofite, cru- 
ciate leaves, white flowers and black 
pofes to call it ne alba, i 
error. The Lig: 
this plant. Its ore aone form perhaps gave it the reputa- 
tion of curing the bites of fnakes, which it hardly retains 
at 
Orne: IOX¥LUM, in Gardening, contains a plant of the 
fhrubby parine kind, of whic bo {pecies 1s the {carlet- 
m (O. (id ao m.) 
may ibe raifed by feeds, which 
di 
the plants have obtained fom 
growth, removed into feparate pots and repiunged in the 
bark a the ftove, where the plants muit be 
ftantly t may likewife be increafed by layers oa 
eaten gs, Pick fhould be laid down or planted out at the 
OPH 
fame feafon, and have the fame fort of management as thofe 
procured from feeds. 
Thefe are ornamental ftove plants 
OPHIR, in Sacred ere, the place from whi ch So- 
lomon procured the gold a her precious articles with 
pine he enriched himfelf, md one the eagle of Jeru- 
alem 
Concerning the part of the world in Bite ch Ophir was 
ituated, there have been many and v 
o 
tteened pees si have difcuffed or adverted to this point 
af rie geogra 
efore pr oeeeding to notice and explain the various hy- 
ethics refpeéting the fituation of Ophir, it may be proper 
to coileé& the different paffages in fcripture in which it is 
ix. 26, 27, ann — king Solomon made a 
i which a ae Eloth, on 
nd e navy his ferva ante ‘hipmen that 
had non ize of - fea, with the fervants of Solomon. 
And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, 
eee hundred and ay talents, and brought it to king 
I o 11. And the navy alfo of Hiram, that 
brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great 
plenty of almug-trees, and precious ftones, 
Verfe 22. For the king had at fea a navy a Tharfhith 
with the navy ef Hiram; once inthree years came the navy 
of Tharfhith, bringing gold and filver, ivory, and apes, and 
peacocks. 
2 Chron. viii. 17,18. Then went Solomon to Ezion- 
ees and to Eloth, at the fea-fide in the land of Edom 
And Huram fent him by the hands of his fervants fhips, 
and fervants that had uae of the fea; and they went 
with the fervants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence 
four hundred = fifty talents "OF gold, and brought them 
to king cog 
hap. ix. 10. ” And the fervants alfo of Huram, and the 
fervants oF Solomon, i paal ie ght gold from Ophir, 
brought algum-trees, and precious ftone 
erfe 21. ue the king’s ihepe went to Tharthith with the 
fervants o m; every three years once came the fhips 
of Tarthifh ae gold and filver, ivory, and apes, and 
peacocks. 
1 Kings, xxii. 48. Jehofhaphat made fhips of Thar- 
fhifh to go to Ophir for sold but they went not; for the 
a were broken at Ezion-geber 
iron. XX. 35, 36, 37- An d after this did Jehofha- 
phar. king of Judah, ae a with Ahaziah, king of 
Pe who did very wicke 
e joined himfe If with him to make fhips to go 
to Chast they made the sia in Ezion- ri 
Th h of Marefhath 
leer saul Jehofhaphat, ae alt 
eet thyfelf with Ahaziah, the hath broken thy 
orks, d s were broken, a they were not 
ifi. 
Ke 
ezer, the fon of Dod 
able to iv Thai fhilt 
The cathors of the Ancient Univerfal Hiftery confider 
the various marks by which the f{criptures feem to lead us 
to Ophir, as fo ialsble and ftriking, that they are fur- 
3L 2 prifed 
