95 GARCINIA CAMBOGIA. 
seem scarce fertile, which, as in all the other species of this 
genus I have yet met with, induces me to think there is a 
male tree, though I have not yet met with it. 
Germ superior, round, 8-10-lobed, 8-10-celled, with one ovule in 
each, attached to the axis. Style none. Stigma peltate, with 
as many ragged divisions as there are cells in the germ. 
Berry round, size of a small orange, from eight to ten elevations 
run from the base to the apex (as in the common melon), when 
ripe yellow, and one-celled. 
Seeds generally eight or ten, semi-ovate, with the inner edge thin, 
each enveloped in its own proper, succulent, yellowish, 
pulpy aril. 
Albumen and embryo as in the other species. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
From wounds a yellowish Juice exudes, which hardens into a 
brownish yellow gum-resin, greatly inferior incolour to gamboge. 
GYNOCARDIA. 
DIOECIA POLYANDRIA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
MALE. 
Calyx 4-5 lobed. Petals five, a nectarial scale over the base of 
each. 
FEMALE, 
Calyx and corol as in the male. Germ superior, one-celled: ovules 
numerous, on five parietal receptacles. Styles five. Berry 
dry,.one-celled, many-seeded. Embryo furnished with albu- 
men: direction of the radicle various. 
299. GYNOCARDIA ODORATA. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Ghaulmoogri, or Chawulmoogri; also Petarcurrah, are the 
names by which this tree, and the drug, hereafter mentioned, which 
it furnishes, are known inthe Sv/het¢ district, where it is indigenous, 
and grows to a large size, equalling the largest mango trees, (and 
their size, when full grown, may be compared to the great maple, 
or sycamore, Acer pseudo-platanus.) Blossoms in April and May ; 
and the seed ripen about the close of the year; when the fruit is 
gathered, the seed carefully taken out, dried, and sold to the 
native dealers in drugs for about five rupees the maund, of 84lbs, 
DESCRIPTION. 
Trunk and large branches covered with tolerably smooth ash-colour- 
ed bark: the young shoots more or less declinate, round, 
smooth and green. Wood of a light brown colour, close- 
grained, and seems very fit for a variety of purposes. 
Leaves short-petioled, alternate, bifarious, drooping, lanceolate, 
entire, acuminate, smooth; from six to ten inches long, and 
from one and a half to two and a half broad. 
Stipules none. 
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Peduncles from the sides of the ligneous branchlets of from one to 
several years growth, generally several together, from one 
to two inches long, one-flowered. 
Bractes minute, round the base of the peduncles. 
Flowers large, about an inch and a half in diameter when expanded, 
pale yellow, and powerfully fragrant. 
Calyx one-leaved, bowl-shaped ; border 4-5-lobed. 
Petals five, sessile, oblong, inserted into the receptacle round the 
filaments. Nectary: five ciliate, oblong scales, or smaller 
petals, of a deeper yellow colour over the lower half of the 
proper petal, and attached to them. 
Filaments numerous (about one hundred), woolly, inserted into 
Anthers linear, erect, about the 
length of the filaments, and the two together rather shorter 
than the petals. 
the disk of the receptacle. 
Germ none. 
FEMALE, on a distinct tree. 
Peduncles in bundles from tuberosities over the trunk, and larger 
branches, one-flowered, Kc. as in the male. 
Flowers larger than the male, and fragrant. 
Calyx, corol and nectary as in the male. 
Stamina none, but round the base of the germ are inserted about 
ten pinnatifid, villous bodies. 
Germ superior, round, slightly five-lobed, one-celled, and con- 
tains numerous ovules, attached to five parietal receptacles, 
as in Jussieu’s Capparides, to which this will,no doubt, belong. 
Styles five, short. Stigmas large sagittate-cordate. 
Cortex thick, 
rough, ash-coloured, surface internally brown and composed 
Berry globular, size of a shaddock, one-celled. 
of radii pointing to the centre of the berry. Receptacle in the 
ripe state uncertain. 
Seeds numerous, size of large filberts, immersed in pulp, shape 
various, but in general nearly oval, smooth, light-gray. 
Integuments two: exterior subnuciform: interior membrana- 
ceous. 
Albumen conform to the seed, fleshy, whitish-gray. 
Embryo white. Cotyledons subreniform. Radicle oval, direction 
various. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
The seeds of this tree, called Ghaulmoogri, or Petarcurrah 
by the natives, are employed by them in the cure of cutaneous dis- 
orders. When freed from the integuments, they are beat up with 
clarified butter, into a soft mass ; and in this state applied, thrice 
a day to the parts affected. 
300. MUSA GLAUCA. 
Root fibrous, and perishes with the columnar stem. Spadix 
drooping: spathes ovate-lanceolate, imbricated, many (10-20) 
flowered, permanent, those of the male-lhermaphrodite flowers 
withering. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A very stately, elegant, perfectly distinct, strongly- marked 
species ; a native of Pegu; and from thence introduced, by the 
discoverer, the Rev. Mr. F. Carey, into the Botanic Garden at 
Calcutta, where it blossoms in May, and the seed ripen in October 
and November. Like my M. superba, it never produces suckers, 
