uniformly become sickly when removed to the north or west of 
the Bay of Bengal, and rarely rises beyond the height of two or 
three feet before it perishes.” 
Rumphius, writing on this tree, says :—“ Ejus fructus ex tes- 
timoniis omnium Indorum, apud quos reperitur, optimus ac salu- 
berrimus habetur omnium reliquorum fructuum.” And all re- 
cent travellers bear the same testimony to its excellence. We 
will only give that of Dr. Abel, when speaking of the fruits of 
Batavia :—“ First, im beauty and flavour, was the celebrated 
Mangostan. his, which has been so often eulogized by trayel- 
lers, certainly merits much of the praise that has been lavished 
upon it. It is of a spherical form, of the size of a small orange ; 
is, when young, of a reddish-green colour; when ripe of a red- 
dish-brown; and when old of a chestnut-brown colour. Its 
succulent rind is nearly the fourth of an inch in thickness. It 
contains a very powerful astringent juice, and in wet weather 
exudes a yellow gum, which is a variety of gamboge. On re- 
moving the rind, its esculent substance appears in the form of a 
juicy pulp, having the whiteness and solubility of snow, and a 
refreshing, delicate, delicious flavour. ‘To define it by more pre- 
cise language, is very difficult. We were all anxious to carry 
away with us some precise expression of its qualities ; but after 
satisfying ourselves that it partook of the compound taste of the 
pine-apple and peach, we were obliged to confess that it had 
many other equally good, but utterly inexpressible, flavours. 
From its perfect wholesomeness, it may be eaten In any quan- 
tity; and as it possesses no luscious qualities, it does not soon 
cloy the palate.” —It is not a little singular that a plant, nearly 
allied to the Gamboge, should yet yield so wholesome a fruit. 
The rind is astringent, and employed in cases of dysentery, and 
the bark of the wood is used as a dye. 
Dzscr. In our stoves we are not aware that the J/angosteen 
plant has attained a greater height than ten or twelve feet. In the 
Malay Islands it is said to be twenty feet. Dr. Roxburgh speaks 
of it as a ¢ree of a “large size, with a straight trunk and nume- 
rous spreading opposite branches and branchlets, forming an 
elegant conical head.” Young dranches terete, green, abounding 
in yellow juice. Leaves opposite, six to eight inches long, thick 
and coriaceous, glossy, elliptical-oblong, acuminate, penniveined, 
the veins close and parallel, almost horizontal. Pe/iole short, 
thick, sometimes transversely wrinkled. Mowers, in the plant 
under our examination, solitary, terminal, on a short stalk, (Rox- 
burgh says the perfect flowers are solitary, those which have 
stamens only, fascicled,) bearing imperfect ? stamens and pistil. 
Calye of four large, imbricated, thick, pale green, suborbicular 
sepals. Corolla dirtyish red colour, pale on the underside, of four 
spreading, suborbicular petals, longer than the calyx. Stamens 
