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620 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Garcinia. 
part which now forms the lining of the cells and their 
partitions, in the ripe state, separating readily from the 
inside of the cortex becomes attached to the seed form- 
ing the edible aril; this is exactly the case in all the other 
species examined by me, hence, when ripe, I consider it 
a one-celled fruit. Style none. Stigma peltate, from 
six to eight-lobed, permanent. Berry spherical, of the 
size of a pretty large apple, crowned with the stigma, hav- 
ing the surface even, (in the other species it is more or 
less torose as in the common melon,) one-celled. | Cortex 
thick, firm, though somewhat spongy, of a dull crimson” 
colour, or between that and a brick colour ; taste powerful- 
ly astringent. Seeds as far as eight, in shape and size like 
those of the other species, but the fleshy envelope, or aril, 
_ ismore abundant than in any other, delicately white, and 
delicious to the taste. —Integument proper, single and 
veined. Perisperm conform to the seed, firm, entire. Em- 
_bryo simple, erect, filiform, extending through the centre 
of the perisperm its whole length, and not readily detect- 
ed until vegetation begins, when a slender perishable root 
proceeds from the base and the scaly plumula from the 
apex which lengthens fast, and throws out the chief root 
from its base, as in the Palms; soon after this provision 
is established, the original, slender radicle pce it is 
fhe same with all the other species of this genus, as 
as of Barringtonia and Xanthochymus. 
From the earliest accounts we have of this charming 
tree and its delicious fruit ; we learn that all the innumer~ 
able attempts hitherto shite to familiarize it to’ other 
countries, besides those in which it is placed by nature, 
have uniformly proved unsuccessful. For these thirty- 
five years past I have laboured in vain to make it grow 
and be fruitfal on the continent of India. ‘The plant has 
uniformly become sickly when removed to the north or 
west of the Bay of Bengal, and rarely rises beyond the 
3 a or three feet before it perishes. oa 
