Ekebergia, -DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. _ 391 
ther within the mouth of the nectary. Capsule round, 
the size of a small cherry, fleshy, one-celled, two-valved, 
opening round the apex. Seed solitary, round, invested 
in a complete, thin, white, sebaceous aril, which with 
the seed, as in the germ, are attached to what was the 
partition, now pressed to one side by the abortion of 
three-fourths of its original contents. Integument single, 
when recent orange, but soon changing to a chesnut co- 
lour, smooth, and strong, with a long white umbilicus 
strongly marking the side of attachment,. Perisperm none. 
Embryo inverse. Cotyledons two, hemispheric, conform 
. to the seed, firm, green. Plumula small, two-lobed, Ra- 
dicle superior, small. eres . 
The back, leaves, and tender parts possess a consider- 
able share of a peculiar bitter taste ; and the cold infusi- 
ous thereof, with the addition of a little sulphate. of iron, 
becomes black; two principles very generally found 
amongst the plants of this natural order, which grow in 
Thdia. 
Specimens of another species were received from. the 
Molucca Islands where the tree grows, but I have no 
drawing thereof. I however add a short definition below, 
2. H. quinquijuga. R. 
Arboreous, Leaves unequally pinnate ; ——. Lg 
pair. Panicles, the length of theleaves. = 
A tree, native of the Moluccas, with the perfect habit 
ofa Melia. 
-EKEBERGLIA. Schreb. gen. n. 619. 
- Calyx from four to five-toothed. — Corol five-petalled. 
Nectary cylindric, ten-cleft, antheriferous. Germ supe- 
Tior, five-celled, cells one-seeded. Embryo inyerse, sand 
fumished with a perisperm. 
