Bitter King (Soulamaea amara), a shrub or small tree of the natural order Simarubaceæ (see QUASSIA), a native of the Moluccas and Fiji Islands, which has received its name from its intense bitterness.
Bitter King
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 190
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