ORO 
flowers, otherwife they feem nearly allied; but we have 
afon to think there are many f{pecies of this genus as yet 
undefcribed by fyftematic writers ; nor is our knowledge a 
prefent fufficient for us to fettle the fynonyms of thofe al- 
oS publifhe 
O. occidentalis. Willd. 
Weft-Indian aie 2 ia 
male 
Rigid Simple-leaved Ornitrophe. Willd. 
hmidelia rigida; Swartz Ind. Occ. v. 2. 663. 
with alternate, fimple, ftalked, lanceolate leaves, rough above 
downy beneath, with ftrong reticulated veins, and fm all 
fpinous marginal teeth. Clufters axillary, folitary, ftalked, 
hairy. 
Alter all that has been faid of this genus, it is perhaps 
not diftin& from Schmidelia, with which it precifely accords 
in habit, differmg chiefly in having but one /fyle, inftead of 
two, anda calyx with four deep fegments, inftead of one of 
two leaves. But the twin germen in Ornitrophe, fhews the 
former chara€ter to be but ambiguous, and the caly«# having 
two larger and two {maller salsa renders the latter fome- 
what fulpicious, See ScuMIDEL 
NON, in Geog: poy, an ifland j in the Baltic, near the 
coaft of Sweden. N. lat.68°. E. long. 1 
ORNOS, a fea- cai on a 8. = . the ifland of My- 
N. lat. 37° 24!, ong. 25 
S, in Waa, the name ae a <n mentioned by 
Pliny ; as a la arge and majettic tree, preferring 
ions. It is aul taken for the Manna 
of Diofcorides; fee Fraxinus Ornus. Gef- 
5 acon, and fome others, have fuppofed 
our Mounts Afh, Pyrus ancuparia, Fi. Brit. to be the 
whic 
Ruellius, a Gefner than to the Man fh. 
RO, in Geography, a mountain of Switzerland, in the 
—_ of the Grifons; 13 miles W. of Bormio. 
» Cape d’, the eaftern point of the ifland of Negro- 
saan aa called « See in the ifland of Eu. 
bea, N. Jat. 38° 8. . 24, Alfo, a cape on 
the W. coaft of Africa, are 6c ees ? N, lat. 23° 30. 
W. long. 15° 201. 
OROBANC HE, i in Botany, OpoBary x of the Greeks, fi 
called from ogofos, a vetch, and wyxu to Sirangle or fu fit 
becaufe this parafite is believed to ftarve, or render bar 
the plants on which it 8 Havi been patella co) 
ferved upon the Broom in England, it is here named Broom- 
rap nn. Gen. 321. Schreb. 421 . Sp. P. v. 3. 
347- Mart. Mill. ri 3. . Brit. 668. Prodr. 
FL. Gree. Sibth. v. 1. 440. Juff. ror. Tourn. t. t. 81. 
ORO 
Lamarck IlluSr. t. 591. Clafs and order, Didynamia An- 
Siofpermia. Nat. Ord. Perfonate, Linn. Pediculares, Juff. 
en. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of two leaves moftly 
Pees lateral, fornetimes ae at their bafe, erect, 
re fe three- 
Ts its ferments various in fize and 
land, in front, at the bafe ef the 
germen. Stam. Bilavents four, awl-thaped, concealed canted 
See merous, nen 
ceptacles ‘four, ‘linear, rer Secied to the v. 
. Calyx of two lateral leaves. Corolla ringent, 
Capfule of one cell and two valves. Seeds numerous. A 
gland under the germen in front. 
* BraGeas folitary. 
O. Sige id ow -rape. 
Sutton Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. Ae t7s: 
Curt. Lond. fafe. "i 44.—Stem fimple. 
the fegments of its lower lip hae and acute. Stamens 
{mooth. Style downy.—Native of Eurupe, in bufhy places 
on a barren fandy foil, growing " parafitically on the roots of 
Spartium or Ulex, and flowering in June and July. he 
root is {uppofed to be perennial, and fixes itfelf by numerous 
b of a du 
major. a Sp. . 882. 
. Bot. t. 421 
"Ecrolla infiated; 
et 
re e ftem is angular, downy, fucculent, 
about a foot high, clothed with feattered, Inpecolat, leafy 
e bot which 
Spike terminal, imple 
anied 
entire. 
ate ; 
flower gl. Bot. and in every part of Curtis’s figure 
‘amens channelled and quite fmooth in their lower 
of Bauhin not being a ae of Britain 
utes to ours ‘a faint {mell of cloves,”’ 
rs agi in various books that fuch a {cent belonged to 
. “0. lk at erage Broom-rape. §m. 
Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 4. es A a n. 3. (O. major; 
Pollich. Palatin. v. 2. 20 296 all. Hitt. 
Ve. Ie 129 » majors mee pigiaee olens; Bauh. 
Pin. 87.)—Stem fimple. Corolla inflated, crifped at 
he edge; the fegments of its lower lip equal and ob- 
tufe. Lower part the ftame n the inner 
fide. Native of Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. 
This has t 
appearance of the former, but {meils ttrongly like ae 
4D 2 whea 
