194 Wight's botanicai. letters. 



finally G. pictoria, Roxb., G. elUptica, Wall., and G. Morella, 

 form ihe fourth, on account of the united stamens and one- 

 celled circumscissile anthers. For these, I have proposed 

 the names Mangostana, Garcinia, Cambogia, and Stalagmites, 

 I apply this last to Dr Graham's plant, the true Gamboge 

 bearer, rather than to make room for it by abolishing Xan- 

 thochymus, a well established genus.* 



We have lately got a new editor for the Journal, and he is 

 making great efforts to raise its character from the lowest to 

 the highest grade of periodical literature, and there is reason 

 to believe he will succeed to a great extent. As I was my- 

 self an instigator to the change, I feel myself in some measure 

 called upon to support the work to the utmost of my power, 

 and shall, therefore, publish, whatever I write, in it, in the first 

 instance. Griffith has also promised communications on 

 Botany, while the editor will extract from the Calcutta and 

 Bombay periodicals, whatever appears in them worth inser- 

 tion. You may, therefore, expect to find in it a nearly per- 

 fect record of the progress of Indian Botany. W^hen new 

 genei-a or species are published in it, it may be useful to get 

 them transferred to some of the European periodicals to 

 prevent their being lost, or superseded by writers in better 

 known and more widely circulating journals : the last num- 

 ber has 240 pages of matter, principally, if not indeed en- 

 tirely, Asiatic, and for the most part strictly scientific. 



PuLNEY Mountains, (elevation 5500 feet above the sea,) 

 llth September, 1836. 



I HAVE now been on these rather elevated regions the 

 better part of three weeks, and owing to bad weather and 

 confinement to the house, have blotted not a few sheets of 

 paper; yet I do not, I assure you, grudge the trouble of fill- 

 ing up one for you I hope you have written to Col. 



Walker, as I advised you, and before yours can arrive, he 



• Dr Graham has called the Gamboge plant Hebraiodendron, and 

 seems inclined to bestow Stalagmites, as the oldest name, on Xantho- 

 cJiymvs. — Arx, 



