Garcinia, POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. . 629 
ovulum in each attached to the axis, a little above its 
middle. Style none. Stigma four-lobed, permanent. Berry 
size of a large cherry, oval, smooth, very slightly marked 
with four lobes, crowned with the sessile, four-lobed, ver- 
rucose, permanent stigma. Bark leathery, pretty thick, 
and rather spongy, one-celled. Seeds four when allripen, © 
oblong-reniform. Perisperm and embryo as in the genus. 
Male flowers. Calyx and corolla as in the female. Necta- 
vium none. Filaments ntimerous, inserted on the crown 
of a square fleshy receptacle, in the centre of the flower, 
clavate, angular. Anthers arenas Pistillum no praee 
of one. 
Ihave received frequent samples of the Gamboge the 
produce of this tree, from my good correspondent Mr. 
Samuel Dyer, the Surgeon at Tellicherry, and have uni- 
formly found it even in its crude, unrefined state, supe- 
rior in colour, while recent, to every other kind I have 
wid mia but not so permanent as that from China, 
10. G. cornea. Willd. 2, 849. 
Dioecous. Leaves opposite, oblong. Flowers terminal ; 
male many-fold; female solitary. Stigma four-lobed. 
: 
» Lignum corneum. © Rumph. Amb, 3. p. 55. t. 30. 
- Two small, beautifal trees, one male, the other female, 
of about twenty years growth are found in ‘the garden of 
the late Colonel Robt. Kyd, near Calcutta, said to have 
been originally, from one of the Malay Islands. They 
blossom in January and February ; and the female ripens 
its fruit in May and June, Trunk straight. Branches 
opposite, many of them drooping ; height of the whole 
trees about twenty feet. Leaves opposite, petioled, droop- 
ing, oblong, entire, smooth, ofa deep shining green on both 
sides + from four to six inches long and about two broad. 
- Petioles about three ee of an inch \ round, 
, Mga bthiys SR IPO #1 Sach east” 
