OSB 
‘Niphon, and, next to the two capitals Meaco and Jedo, = 
moft confiderable for wealth, mumficence, and pop pulatio 
. The neighbouring 
of a beautiful orange-colour, 
which they convey to alae parts of the empire for the fame 
perpofe ; 25 miles S.W. of Meaco. N. lat 8. 
ADA, a {mall ifland in the Sooloo Archipelago. N. 
lat. 6° 5’. - long. 120° 28). 
E, a river of Louifiana, which runs from the W. 
into the right bank of the Miffouri; about 24 miles from 
the Miffifippi. 
Osaces, an Indsan nation which inhabits a vicinity 
of the above-named river, on the right bank of t iffourt, 
about 80 leagues from its confluence with it. is nation 
each other. 
ommit depredations from the Illinois to the 
The trade of this nation is faid to be under an 
exclufive grant. eople are a oS me Erect race, 
hated and dreaded by all ae other Indi 
O » a town of Japan, 1 in the ifland of Niphon. N. 
lat. g5° x0. E. long. 136° - 
SARA, Afchara, or Afa a tow 
Defert, near the Euphrates ; ee miles E. S.E. 
OSBANI 
n of Syria, in the 
of Aleppo 
Sey town of Turkeftan, on the Sirr ; 30 
miles W. of Tou 
OSBEC KIA, i in Bata ae its name from Linneus, 
‘ voyage, particularly of his obfervations in natural hittory, 
which has been tran flated into German and Englifh. The 
a few w years fince, at an advanced age, 
weden, nor have we heard of 
his de 8 ¢ seated feveral papers on fifhe 
infe€ts, and various econom plants, to the Stockholm 
TranfaGtions. Linn. Gen. 186. Schreb. 249. Willd. Sp 
Pl. v. 2. 300. Mart. Mil . Ait. Hort. Kew 
ed. : v. 22 340. Jufl. 330. Lamarck Illuftr. t 283 
Gertn. t.126?—Clafs and order, OGandria (or rather 
peraps Mestome, al Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Calycantheme, 
we A Cal. en of one leaf, bell-fhaped, per- 
manent 3 rare in four or five deep, oblong, acute fegments, 
Cor. Petals four or five 
body of the calyx in the lower part, terminating above 
in ag sole or five fringed fcales ; ftyle cylindrical, flightly 
curved, the length of the ftamens; ftigma fimple, obtule 
eric. Capfule roundifh- ovate, firmly oiled with the 
body of the calyx, (which is tubular and abrupt at the 
fummjt), of four or five cells, burfting longitudinally at the 
top. Seeds numerous, kidney-fhaped. Receptacles lunate. 
f. C with four or five deciduous teeth, and 
fringed intermediate (ale Petals four or five. Anthers 
beaked. Capfule of four or five cells, clothed with the 
abrupt body of the calyx. 
OSB 
Obf. There is fome fore in eke fora this genus 
from Rhexia, Willden ae As s that « the capfule 
of the latter is cata: in the ae 
be faid that « the 
, The dry capfular fruit diftinguifhes 
Ofeeckia from Melaftoma, to fay nothing of the calyx. Lin. 
neus in his Praled. in Ord. Nat. Plantarum, 335, feems to 
think Rhexia fcarcely well diftinguifhed from Qfbeckia, not 
adverting to the conneétion of the calyx, nor to its teeth. 
= — lowers four-cleft, with eight flamens. 
Chinefe ara Linn. S 
It is fold in 
at the bafe, ani 
with deprefled brite, as in Mela ; dark green sion 
pale or yeliowifh beneath. qwers Gani oi ufuaily two 
together, feffiie, arco ied b 
Calya ovate, obfcurely: Abed colo Ars 
and naked; teeth a about as long as 
finally deciduous, their edges fringed with 
mediate {cales external with refpe€ to the teeth, {mall, 
sa oa each crowned with a radiating tuft of unequal, 
pale, fomewhat co-rpound brililes, balf tne length of the 
teach, all “finaly saan sae etals red, obovate, broad, 
‘Anther yeliow, ee a 
2. O. ae nica. Ceylon 
Wil ae ane £ d (Ec hinophora 
maderalpstana, ideritids non cae nervofis eae peo 
mul . Phyt t. 173- 
alte mate, ea deflexed ; ois 
Leaves elliptic-lan- 
eae a quarter o 
e eli 
aoe well sana ar in ae above ‘figures, Flowers from 
m or branches, die lower 
