Hunteria. pentandria monogynia. t'j'. 



Peduncles long, smooth, round, sometimes nearly erect, sometimes 

 drooping. Pedicels and cahjces of a bright red colour, which with 

 the white flowers, gives the fascicles a very pretty appearance. 



The Hermaphrodite Flowers, indeed I never could discover 

 any other, are well described in the Genera plantarum, except that 

 the coral is always contracted. — Germ superior, two-Iobed, with one 

 ovulum in each, attached to the inner and lower corner of the cell.— 

 Berry two-'obed, smooth, shining black, and succulent when ripe ; 

 lobes the size of a pea, each one-celled. — Seed solitary, somewhat 

 trapezifonn. Integuments two, the exterior one unciform, most 

 jointed at the base, hard, thick, and rugose, the inner one a fine 

 membrane, a-ihering to the perisperm. — Ferisperm conform to the 

 seed, greenish white. — Embryo inverse, straight, nearly as long as the 

 peris-peim. Cotyledons round, cordate. Radicle sub-cylindric. 



Obs. The want of the unciform, bony, exterior integument of the 

 seed in Gaei tner's O. trifo/iatum, ii. 1£9 induces me to think his 

 cannot be the same, yet 1 know of no other to compare his with. 



The root of this plant is employed for the cure of various disor- 

 ders by the Telinga physicians. First in substance, inwardly, as a 

 febrifuge. Secondly, in the same manner, after the bite of poisonous 

 animals. The juice is also expressed, and dropt into the eye, for 

 the same purpose. And thirdly it is administered, in substance, to 

 promote delivery in tedious cases. 



HUNTERIA, R. 



Calyx five-parted. Corol infundibuliform. Germ two-Jobed ; 

 lobe* one-celled, two-seeded, attachment of the ovula sub-inferior. 

 Berries two, pedicelled, one- celled, one- or two-seeded. 



1. tt. corymbosa, R. 



A tree, native of Prince of Wales's Island, where it blossoms itt 



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