rather small, unequal, rounded, and somewhat imbricating 

 leaves. Corolla of five petals, erect and very concave, so 

 as to connive in a globular form, cream-coloured, almost 

 white. Bundles of stamens five, erect, each of five filaments, 

 free at the extremity, and each terminated by a two-celled, 

 rounded, mostly abortive, anther. Alternating with the five 

 bundles of stamens, are five rounded, and somewhat tuber- 

 cled glands. Pistil : Germen globose, tapering upwards 

 into a short style, terminated by a large stigma of five 

 spreading, obtuse, stellated rays. The fruit is, according 

 to Dr. Roxburgh, a rounded or oval berry, of the size of an 

 apple, smooth and bright yellow, with copious yellow pulp, 

 five-celled, and five-seeded, or fewer by abortion. These 

 seeds are large, oblong, acute, with a distinct broad yellow 

 hilum. Integument reticulated. A large portion of the 

 pulp, of a more agreeable taste than the rest of the fruit, is 

 attached to the seed. Albumen hard, fleshy. 



In the month of February, of the present year, (1831,) 

 Mr. Marnock was so obliging as to send to me, from Mrs. 

 Beaumont's noble collection at Bretton Hall, the speci- 

 men here figured of the Xanthochymus dulcis. " Our 

 plant," he says, " is now about ten feet high, and is loaded 

 with not less than two hundred flowers and young fruit, 

 which latter have every prospect of coming to perfection." 

 The seeds had been transmitted to Mrs. Beaumont by Dr. 

 Wallich, from the Calcutta Botanic Garden, where it was 

 introduced by Dr. Roxburgh, from the Molucca Islands, 

 as a supposed species of Mangosteen. The fruit appears 

 to be palatable and good. 



Dr. Roxburgh's plants, at the Calcutta Garden, at eight 

 years old, were not larger than the one which flowered at 

 Bretton Hall. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal, nat. size. 3. Stamens and Gland. 4. Section 

 of Pistil, magnified. 5. Fruit 3 and 6. Section of do. nat. size (copied from 

 Dr. Roxburgh's Plnt^ 



Dr. Roxburgh's Plate). 



