Garcinia. §POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 619 
_ Mangostana Garcinia. Gert: sem. 2. 105. t. 105. 
Mangostana. Rumph. Amb. 1, t. 43. is a bad represen- 
tation of the female hermaphrodite, or fertile tree. 
A native of the Malay Peninsula, and of the Islands 
to the eastward of the Bay of Bengal, where they often 
grow to be trees of a large size, with a straight trunk, and 
numerous spreading opposite branches, and branchlets 
forming an elegant, conical head, It is in flower and 
fruit great part of the yeat. Leaves opposite, petioled, 
oblong, and broad-lanceolar, entire, rather obtuse, having 
both sides polished, of a firm texture, from six to eight 
inches long, and from two to four broad. Petioles. short, 
marked with ruge and having a fleshy protuberance on 
the inside. Stipules none. — 
- Maus. Flowers terminal, pretty long-peduncled, gene- 
rally three, five, or nine together, large, of a colour which 
is a mixture of red, green, and yellow. Bractes several 
about the insertion of the peduncles, and round the flower 
buds themselves, roundish, concave, scariose. Calyx of 
two unequal pairs, of round, concave, spreading leaflets. 
Petals four, oval, fleshy, of a yellowish red on the inside 
and a greenish red on the outside. Stamina numerous, 
collected on the four lobes of a large fleshy receptacle, 
yound the abortive column. Filaments short. Anthers 
ovate, oblong, recurved. Germ none, but in the centre an 
inverted, truncated, conical, fleshy body, iecslieeanet ewes 
above the elevated anthers. 
FemMaLe HERMAPHRODITE. aia piincamnine on 
the same tree with the male, but I believe more generally 
on a separate one, solitary, rarely tern, peduncled, larger 
than the male, and of a deeper colour. Calyx and corol 
as in the male, the former permanent, Filaments many, 
slender, half the length of the germ, and inserted round 
its base. Anthers irregular, small, and seemingly abor- 
tive. Germ superior, round, from six to eight-celled, with 
one ovula in each, attached to the middle of the axis, the 
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