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reiro fays, that the (lem is two feet high, fuffruticofe, 
hairy, branched. Flowers red, heaped, terminating, pe- 
duncled. Antherae oblong, tailed, not broken, nor 
beaked. Berry roundifh, juicelefs. Native of the Eaft 
Indies and China. The Chinefe call it komm-hei/ong- 
loaa, or “ feather of gold rofes.” The whole plant is- 
fold in apothecaries’ (hops; they boil it with old ludi-tea, 
and drink the decodlion in colics. In drains and fwel- 
lings it is ufed in the bath. 
2. Ofbeckia Zeylanica, or Ceylon ofbeckia : leaves pe- 
tioled, peduncles axillary, one-flowered, naked. In ap¬ 
pearance this refembles the preceding very much. It is a 
native of Ceylon, and was found there by Koenig. 
II. Flowers five-cleft, with ten ftamens. 
3. Ofbeckia antennina, or briftle-fcaled ofbeckia : body 
of the calyx naked; fcales linear, longer than the teeth, 
fringed with diftant briftles ; leaves ovate, five-ribbed. 
Gathered by Dr. Afzelius at Sierra Leone. Stem branched, 
fpreading, fquare, briftly. Leaves ovate, about two inches 
long, light-green, thin, very briftly, with five ribs; their 
ftalks about half an inch long, clothed with remarkably- 
numerous, fpreading, long, and flout, briftles. Flowers 
fituated as in both the foregoing, but larger, and on 
longer ftalks. Body of the calyx quite fmooth and naked, 
very obfcurely ribbed, green, with a purplifti tinge; teeth 
five, as long as the body, ovato-lanceolate, taper-pointed, 
pale-green, tinged with purple, furnifhed with many fine 
ribs, the edges fringed with fhort briftles, the point tip¬ 
ped with a few long ones ; fcales rather longer than the 
teeth, linear, very narrow, purplifh, fringed with long 
very-diftant briftles, three of which crown the fummit. 
The petajs feern to be white or yellowifti. 
4. Ofbeckia rotundifolia, or round-leaved ofbeckia : 
briftles of the calyx numerous, ftellated ; fcales linear, 
tipped with radiating briftles; leaves roundifh-ovate, 
three-ribbed. From Sierra Leone. The branches are 
reddifh and hairy. Leaves about an inch long, remark¬ 
ably broad, with only three ribs ; footftalks half as long, 
very hairy. Calyx almoft globofe, pale, purplifti. 
5. Ofbeckia tubulofa, or 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, larger 
than in the laft, both fides hairy ; the under much the 
paleft. Flowers four or five, in a loofe terminal fpike. 
Calyx ovate, with a cylindrical neck as long as the body; 
every part, even the teeth, denfely clothed with minute, 
fcattered, pale, yellowifh, deprefied, briftles; befides which 
the body is covered with large ftar-like tufts of roughifh, 
long, fpreading, briftles, of the fame hue. From Sierra 
Leone. 
6. Ofbeckia grandiflora, or large-flowered ofbeckia: 
briftles of the calyx tufted, unequal; fcales linear, fhort, 
tipped with radiating briftles ; teeth four times as long, 
obtufe. Leaves fefllle, oblong; panicle forked. Native 
likewife of Sierra Leone. A much larger plant than any 
of the foregoing. Stem and branches hairy. Leaves in 
diftant pairs, five-ribbed, hairy, bright-green, fomewhat 
recurved. Flowers about feven, in a terminal, forked, 
liifpid, leaflels, panicle ; very large and handfome, purple, 
with yellow antherae. Calyx nearly cylindrical; its body 
deftitute of minute deprefied briftles, but clothed with 
numerous tranfverfe oblong tufts of long unequal fpread¬ 
ing ones ; teeth five, oblong, blunt, broad, nearly as long 
as the body, veiny, coloured, fmooth, except a fine mar¬ 
ginal fringe, and a thick tuft of unequal terminal briftles. 
This magnificent fpecies would be a great acquifition to 
our ftoves. , 
7. Ofbeckia multiflora, or many-flowered ofbeckia : brif¬ 
tles of the calyx fcattered, moftly Ample'; teeth linear, 
obtufe. Leaves ovate, five-ribbed, ftalked; fpikes ag¬ 
gregate. This alfo was brought from Sierra Leone. It 
has the habit and inflorefcence of a Melaftoma. The 
leaves are ftalked, two or three inches long, pointed, 
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rough, with deprefied briftles, and furnifhed with five, 
fometimes feven, ribs ; their under fide paleft. Spikes 
terminal, about three together, each Ample, racemofe, of 
from three to fix flowers, briftly. The body is clothed 
with numerous fhort fcattered upright or indexed yellow¬ 
ifh briftles, moftly Ample, but a few towards the top are 
gathered into palmate tufts. For the fpecies of this fe- 
cond divifion, we are indebted to Dr. Rees’s New Cyclo¬ 
paedia. 
OS'BORN (Francis), an ingenious Englifh writer, was 
the younger fon of fir John Ofborn, of Chickfand, Bed- 
fordfhire, and was born about 1589. He received a do- 
meflic education ; and, when arrived at years of matu¬ 
rity, frequented the court, and became a retainer of the 
Pembroke family; and, finally, miller of the horfe to the 
accomplifhed Williarh earl of Pembroke. In the civil 
contentions of Charles I. he was led by his principles to 
take part with the parliament, under which, and under 
the proteflor Cromwell, he held fomepublic employmdnrs. 
In the latter part of his life he refided at Oxford, in or¬ 
der to fu peri lit end the education of his fon, and to print 
fome of his works. He died in February 1658-9, at the 
houfe of his brother-in-law, Mr. Draper, at Nether- Wot- 
ton, Oxfordfliire. The work by which Mr. Ofborn is beft 
known, is his “Advice to a Son;” the firil part printed 
in 1656, the fecond in 1659 ; both frequently reprinted. 
It confifts of maxims and directions upon a variety of 
topics important in the conduft of life, chiefly delivered 
in the fententious or aphorillic manner. His opinions 
in general difplay good fenfe and an enlarged way of 
thinking ; indeed, they were thought fo free, that the 
puritanical divines of the commonwealth charged them 
with an atheiftical tendency, and moved the vice-chancellor 
of Oxford to caufe his book to be publicly burnt. This 
propofal did not take effeCt; but an order was procured 
to prohibit the fale of it, which increafed its popularity. 
“ This writer (fays his biographer) has been cited as . 
giving his opinion in preference of a public education 
over a private one ; in fadl, he was fenfibie of what he had 
himfelf loft by efcaping the difcipline of a public fchool, 
but perhaps he did not fo w’ell compute the advantages 
he had gained by the domeftic plan of education ; and 
thefe perfonal and individual confequences feem to have 
influenced moll of thofe who have treated on the fame 
fubjefl.” His other publications were various tradls upon 
political topics : of which the chief are, 2. Hiftorical 
Memoirs on the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King 
James, 1658, 8vo. 3. A Mifcellany_ of fundry Eflays, 
Paradoxes, and problematical Difcourfes, Letters, and 
Characters; together with political Dedu&ions from the 
Hiflory of the Earl of Effex, executed under Queen Eli¬ 
zabeth, 1659, 8vo. Other anonymous works have been 
attributed to him. Biog. Brit. 
OSCA'RI, a town of Sardinia: twenty-three miles 
fouth-eaft of Caftel Aragonefe. 
OSCASA'TO, a town of Italy: twelve miles north- 
weft of Cremona. 
OS'CHA,a river of Ruflia, which runs into the Irlifch, 
oppofite Malanova, in the government of ToboUk, 
OS'CHATZ, or Ozzek, a town of Saxony, in the mar- 
gravate of Meiflen, containing three churches, a college, 
and fome manufactures of cloth : fixteen miles north-weft 
of Meiflen, and thirty north-weft of Drefden. Lat. 51.18. 
N. Ion. 13. 5. E 
OS'CHF.RSLEBEN, a town ofWeftphalia, in theprin- ' 
cipality of Halberftadt, on the Bode : ten miles north- 
north-eaft of Halberftadt, and twenty weft of Magdeburg. 
Lat. 50.2.N. Ion.11.28.E. 
OSCHET'ZKA, a town of Pruflia, in the palatinate of 
Culm : twenty-three miles eaft of Culm. 
OSCHMIA'NA. See Oszmiana. 
OSCHOPHO'RIA,y! a feftival celebrated by the Athe¬ 
nians, which receives its name a-tro rov tpxgim ra.<; aaya.<;, 
“ from carrying boughs hung with grapes.” The original 
inftitution is thus mentioned by Plat, in The]]'. Thelehs, 
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