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tinate at the edge, not fo foon deciduous as in the former ; 
{eales linear, narrow, crowned with a radiant orbicular tuft 
of fimple briftles. 
eertner’s figure, m 
mediate {cales, aad its briftles featered 3 an nd fhor 
t Sierra iat by the 
fider it cere asa mere variet 
¥* Flowers five-cleft, with ten flamens. 
3. O. antennina. ‘Briftle-fcaled Ofbeckia.—Body o of the 
calyx naked; {cales linear, longer than the teeth, fringed 
with diftant briftles. Leaves ovate, five-ribbed——Gathered 
rather longer than the teeth, linear, very narrow, purplith, 
fringed with long very diftant bite, aie of which crown 
the fummit. The feta/s feem to be white or yellowihh. 
rotundifolia. ound-leaved Ofbeckia.—-Briftles 
calyx numerous, ftellated ; {cales linear, tipped with 
dee iftles. ae roundi ovate, three-ribbed.— 
rom alan ae panchee are reddifh and hairy. 
an inch ae remarkably broad, with only 
“Fools half as long, very hairy. Calyx, in 
we have feen, almott globofe, pate, pur 
with c ee entangled, ttellated briitles ; 
obtufe, recurved, haif the length 
of the Rete, copioufly age and bearded ; fcales linear, 
very like the teeth, but much narrower, the terminal briftles 
more radiating. 
. O. tubulfa. Long-necked Ofbeckia.—Calyx minutely 
briftly ; its neck tubular, elongated; body clothed with 
ftellated briftles ; fcales linear, tipped with radiating ones. 
Leaves ovate, pointed, five-ribbed.—From Sierra Leo 
Leaves larger than in ne lait, of a broad- — “fade much 
er muc 
Leaves a 
three ribs, 
h 
eo-— 
cales linear, half 
6. O. gra ar er Ofbeckia.— Briftles 
of the calyx nel, unequal ; 
with radiating briftles; teeth four times as long, ob 
rpalag etl oo Panicle forked.—Native likewife of 
a Leo 
oe. on an : 
feffile, in diitant dest elliptic-oblong, 
bright green, fomewhat recurved. 
in a terminal, forked, hifpid, leaflefs panicle, very large 
and handfome, Purples with yellow anthers. Bradeas ovate, 
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seu fringed, deciduous. Calyx nearly cylindrical, ah 
body deftitute of minute depreffed briftles, but clothed w: 
umerous, tranfverfe, oblong tufts, of long unequal fread. 
ing ones; teeth five, oblong, blunt, a . nearly as long 
as the body, veiny, coloured, fmooth, except a fine mar- 
ginal fringe, and a thick tuft of aieanal: terminal briftles ; 
{fcales linear, a quarter the length of the teeth, fmooth, 
crowned with an exaétly fimilar briftly tuft. Petals, flamens, 
and ffyle, about thrice as long as the calyx-teeth. This 
It appears to be oo but we have no account of its 
whole ftature, or duratio 
O. multiflora. Misi towered Ofbeckia.—Briftles of 
the calyx fcattered, moftly fimple,; teeth linear, obtufe. 
Leaves ovate, five-ribbed, ftalked. Spikes aggregate.— 
This alfo was brought from Sierra Leone. It has the habit 
and inflorefcenee of a Melaffoma. The leaves are ftalked, 
{mooth, with a radiating tuft - ie eran Gatley: 3 the inter- 
mediate fcales we have not feen, but we obferve the {cars 
where they have been, on feveral advanced {pecimens of the 
h is there ti 
neck rifes altogether above it. This can har 
0. bial though more refembling it than any at has fallen 
in 
We ruft our learned friend Afzelius, ta whom we are 
obliged for f{pecimens of the laft five fpecies, will pardon us 
for anticipating his publication of them; as our cnly defign 
in doing fo, after having kept them by us fifteen years, \is 
to commemorate his difcovenies and to add frefh laurels to 
fame. Thefe new fpecies 
have fai 
OS ORN, oe in pee, an a ae ae Englifh 
writer, fon of fir of Chickfand, Bedfordhhire, 
was born in 1 "Tn eae life he frequented the ccurt, 
es I. he took part «ith the 
parliament, under which, ana i ander Cromwell, he heid fome 
re- 
education of his fon, and 7 = of his works. 
in alge 1058— ork by « hich he is bet 
known is his «* Advice to a on ” of which the firft part 
6, and the cond in 16 It confifts 
of maxims and directions upon a variety of topics, highiy 
important in the rivh of life, delivered chiefly in 
the fententious manner. From this work, the author of 
the article in the Biographia bie has made large ex- 
tracts, which exhibit the talents o r. Ofborn in a ftniking 
point of vew. ‘There is, howe a a certain freedom in his 
expreffions, and im many of his fentiments, that ill-accurded 
with 
