Garcinia, | POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 621 
“2. G. Cambogia. Willd. 2. 848. 2% 
Leaves lanceolar. Flowers terminal, sub-sessile, solita- 
ry. Stigma from eight to ten-lobed. Berry toralose, from 
eight to ten-seeded. 
_Mangostana Cambogia. Gert. sem. 2. 106. t. 103. 
- Coddam-Pulli. Rheed. Mal. 1. t. 24. is no’ doubt this | 
very tree, for Van Rheed says the fruit is ona peduncle an 
imch long, yet his figure places the leaves close to the © 
_ (termina!) fruit ; so that it is evident the extremity of the 
branchlet must Haid been considered the epee In 
my G. Zeylanica the flowers are axillary. © ye SH 
This grows to be a tree of considerable size in the’ for 
ests of Travancore, where it is known to the natives by 
the name Ghorka Pulli, consequently we may conclude 
_it to be Carca-pulli of Bauhin, Acosta, &c. It flowers in 
February and March, and its. fruit _— in J thie: ts 
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8 G. Zeylanica. R. 
~ Dioceous, Leaves broad-lanceolar. Flowers axillary ; 
male subtern and peduncled ; female sub-sessile and soli-+ 
tary. Stigma varicose. Berry withas far as eight-seeds, 
" Ghorka or korka of the Cingalese, which is rather an 
indefinite name, as with the help of an pee it it ——— 
apply to various trees and their fruits. ; 
This species is a native of Ceylon, and from hint eeis: 
introduced into the Missionaries garden at Tranquebar, 
where the trees -grow freely and acquire a’middling size, 
and like most of the other individuals of this whole natu- 
ral. order, yield an inferior sort of Gamboge. ‘Leaves 
opposite, short-petioled, from broad-lanceolar to oblong 
ventricose, smooth, of a deep lucid green on both sides 
from four to six inches long, and about two broad. Pe- 
soe about half an inch long, channelled, smooth. 
“Mae. Peduncles axillary and terminal, nce ah e- 
ther, one-flowered, smooth, from half an — ae 
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