. 
Ekebergia.| MELIACE2 (Sond.) 247 
antheriferous at summit. kebergia capensis, Hochst. Pl. Krauss. Ek. 
Meyeri, Presl, Bot. Bem. p. 25. 
Sond. Woods at Sitzekamma and Port Natal, Drege, Krauss, &. (Herb. T.C.D., 
nd, 
Branchlets nodose. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, a foot or more 
in length, including the flattened petioles ; leaflets opposite, 2-3 inches long, 12-15 
lines wide, ovate or ovate-oblong, the lower on very short petiolules, the terminal 
with ‘a petiolule } inch long. Panicle glabrous, 3-4 inches long, on a compressed 
peduncle of the same length or longer ; branches of the panicle 1-11 inches long, 
loosely cymose, 7-15-flowered, with a minute, subulate bract under each pedicel, 
Flowers 4-5-fid. Calyx shortly campanulate. Petals two lines long, oblong, longer 
than the downy staminal tube. Anthers 8-10, oblong, glabrous. Style glabrous, 
equalling the staminal tube ; stigma thick, obscurely lobed. This much resembles 
Ekebergia capensis from which it differs in the wider, more ovate leaflets, the longer 
and more slender panicles, the acutely-toothed calyx, the scarcely-imbricate petals 
and longer staminal tube. 
3. T. natalensis (Sond. Linn. 23. p. 23); glabrous; leaves impari- 
pinnate, 2-4 pair ; leaflets opposite, sessile, lanceolate, acuminate, sub- 
Sfalcate, serrate, paler beneath ; racemes crowded at the ends of the 
branches, simple, much shorter than the leaves ; flowers short-stalked, 
4-petalled, octandrous ; stamens glabrous, connate in a short tube ; 
stigma 4-lobed. 
Has. Port Natal, Gueinzius! (Herb. Sond.) 
A tree. Leaves crowded at the end of the branches, alternate, petiolate ; the 
rachis, including a 1-2-inch petiole, three inches long. Leaflets 2-3 inches long, 
6-8 lines wide, the terminal petiolulate, all nearly equal-sided at base, penni-nerved, 
venulose. Racemes inch long, lax-flowered, glabrous, the pedicels solitary or in 
pairs, one line long, bracteolate. Calyx 4-fid, the lobes acute, one line long, with 
valvate wstivation. Petals ovate-oblong, } longer than the calyx, spreading, re- 
curved, glabrous. Ovary 2-celled ; style short ; fruit unknown. Perhaps not a 
true Trichilia? It resembles Harpephyllum caffrum, Bernh., but the leaves are 
serrate and the flowers not dioecious. 
IV. EKEBERGIA, Sparm. 
Calyx short, 4—5-fid to the middle, lobes obtuse, imbricate in zstiva- 
tion. Petals 4-5, scarcely longer than the calyx, elliptical or oblong, 
imbricate in sstivation. Stamens 10 (rarely 9), united in a campanulate 
10-toothed, short tube; the teeth antheriferous. Ovary 4—5-celled, 
surrounded by an annular disc ; ovules in pairs ; style short, thick ; 
stigma discoid, obsoletely lobed. Berry dry, globose, 4-5-celled, 5- 
seeded, or abortively 1-2-seeded ; seeds exarillate. Embryo exalbu- 
minous, with fleshy cotyledons and a superior radicle. Sparm. Act. 
Holm. 1779, p. 282. t. 9. Juss. l. c. p. 233. t. 17. Endl. Gen. No. 5538, 
A large tree with ashen bark. Leaves impari-pinnate, in 4-5 pair, the leaflets 0 
Pte re very entire, oblong, celibate bk each end, peach cy alin 4 with 
revolute margins. Flowers in axi panicles. The name is in honour of Charles 
Gustavus Ekeberg, Captain of the Swedish East Indiaman in which Sparmann 
sailed to China. . oe 
1. E. ng Sparm. Le); Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 582. z ees: oe 
No. 425. Pappe, Sylv. Cap.p. 6. Trichilia capensis, Pers, Ench. 1. p. 
468. Zey. No. 2029. ; : cae 
