ORN 
in general habit, but the corolla is entirely yellow, and the 
much flattened, and 
a the 
mat 
. oO. babe 
Cavan. . vi 
nnate. 
Spiral Bird’s-foot. 
ld. n. 3.— 
eaves pin 8 ca = 
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pocrepis. 
4- O. fcorpioides. Purflane-leaved Bird’ eee Lin 
Cavan. Ic. v. 1. 26. t. eaves ter- 
nate, nearly feffile ; the odd leaflet ver Differs 
No. leaf accompanies the 
Four-leaved Bird's. foot. Linn 
402. Sp, i bad (Quadiifoliom 
erectum, flore luteo ; Sloane Jam. v. 1. 186. t. 116. f. 3.) -— 
_ Flowers Tolits tar ry. ee beaded. 
This has de 
habit of a Lotus. he raflets obovate, emarginate, 
flightly downy, igre aay mela Near glandular dots, and grow 
four together at the an a fhort common foo ee 
vate. Linnzus nen this me mi a 
genus, for which we fee no other reafon than its foliag 
but that indeed is foreign to the nature of = other {pecies, 
Flowers fomewhat capitate, na d, cy- 
lindrical, with obfolete joints. = Native of Eucope. 
thered by the abbé Durand at Gibraltar. We have it from 
Jacquin’s herbarium for O. perpufillus, with which many bo- 
tanifts feem to have confounded it, yet the plants are totally 
difting. The prefent is much larger than the perpu/illus, with 
narrower more diftant reli and only one or two flowers 9 
Corolla oe . Legu 
me 
wn to Linneus. 
Ve , feems intended for it, and is 
deed a very good reprefentation, the fecond, or {ma es 
figure in his p. 486, being unqueftionably the real perpuf ae 
The figure we have above cited for the latter in Ger. 
— taken from Dalechamp’s p. 487, but the ees are 
fome of them made more jointed, and the defcription cer- 
ae belongs to ford lius, as indeed doe account in 
Dalecham 87. The firft Ornithopodium of this author 
appears to be Ornithopus compreffus. 
RNITHOSCOPI, saat ara in Anti iguitys gubaade 
or foothfayers, who made predi and mens, 
from birds. They were likewife called Gieaane: and 
erneofcopi, &c. 
ORNITROPHE, in Botany, fo ox by Commer- 
ORN 
fon, from ogus, a bird, and seohn, foad, becaufe the fruit 
is favourite food of blackbirds in the ifle of Bourbon, 
whence the French inhabitants have named the firft {pecies 
Merle. Juff. 247. 
Said J uff, 
. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, in four 
eep 
roti with a 
Filaments eight, inferted into a glandular receptacle, 
cei iaeet the length of the corolla; anthers roundifh. 
tft. n ftalked, two-lobed, compreffed; ityle o 
divided ; ftigmas fimple. pas 
flightly pulpy, each of one cell; one of them fometimes 
abortive. Sced. Nut “folitary, obova 
Calyx in four deep wen. Petals four. 
= cloven. Germen two-lobed. Drupas two. 
-O ie ae Entire. leaved Ornitrophe. Willd. n. 1. 
has marck ge eaves ternate, ovato-lanceolate, wavy. 
nearly entire. eae red by Commerfon in the ifland of 
Bourbon. A /orub, with round, fmooth, knotty branches. 
— alternate, on longith ftalks, ternate ; /eaffets llalked, 
o or three inches long, nearly equal, ellip:ic- oblong, 
ott: an 
One lobe of the germen ee ufually abortive. ae fruit 
ae a eal pear-fhaped drupa, the lize of a p 
errata. Saw-leaved pits e Ait.n, . “Roxb. 
Coren t. 61.— Leave 
printed pare) —One of the an common 
of Coromandel. Dr. Roxburgh obferves that among 
the mountaine it grows to a {mall t: "ee, but in the low lands 
near the fea it is a low ‘branching fhrub, flowering during 
the wet f The natives jee it Tau atiky, and eat the 
fruit, which is {mall and red, growing in pairs, both lobes 
fo) rmen com to per eaton. e habit is much 
like the laft, but the ae are ftrongly fed. and the 
petals turned all to one fide, which does not appear to be 
the cafe in that, as fat as we can learn from figures cr dried 
— Some 
a obbe. Cas Ornitrophe. 
obbe ; Linn. a ee PI obbe $ m, 
: © Leaves tenate, ovate, acute, ae 
Stalk of the clufters downy —Native 
we 
neus fays the /eaves are either ter or His 
defcription of the inflore/cence seconds oi 5 a the pre- 
ceding, but the common ftalk feems to be more downy. 
a fruit is faid to be blac 
O. Cominia. Yellow-berried Ornitrophe. Willd. n. 4. 
Rius Cominia; Linn. 81. Schmidelia Commia ; 
Swartz Ind. Occ. v. 2. 7. — ee trifolia, 
fru€tu rotundo monopyreno; Sloan Too. t. 208. 
f. 1.)—Leaves ternate, elliptic- seane “aie ly ferrated, 
pee beneath. Common flower-ftalks branched, downy.— 
Native of Jamaica ; pears by seat it 1759" Oa tree 
— 
thirry feet high ves dark g en above ; ite see 
downy, with innum veins, ben ai. pee 
ery {mall, ciclly i in denfe ae alee feveral “of 
which grow on one ched downy comm The 
ram, Rheed de Hurt. Malab. v. 5-4 
{pecies by Linneus, has whitith ce and more diitant 
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