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the purpose of marking out its limits and elucidating its Indian 
genera and species. ‘The second was an endeavour to ascer- 
tain the Laurus Cassia of Linneeus, and the tree which fur- 
nishes the Cassia-bark, or Cassia lignea, of commerce; under- 
taken by order of Government, with a view td solve a question 
submitted for consideration by the Ceylon Government. I 
shall commence my present remarks with the Guttifere. 
In the 13th number of the Madras Journal of Science I 
published some observations on the genera of this Order, 
elicited by a communication of Dr Graham respecting the 
Gamboge plant of Ceylon. In that paper I showed that the 
genera Garcinia and Cambogia of Linnzeus were the same; 
and that Stalagmitis of Murray was, so far as could be ascer- 
tained from characters only, identical with Roxburgh's Xan- 
thochymus. Conceiving the genus Garcinia too complex, 
I there proposed subdividing it. The following extract will 
explain the views I then entertained :— 
- * In my opinion, the genus Garcinia, as now constituted, 
ought not to be retained; and a glance at the accompanying 
figures will explain my reasons for thinking so, by exhibiting 
in one view several of the incongruities which it presents. 
For example, the Garcinia Mangostana, speciosa, and cornea, 
have the filaments of the male flower united, forming four 
large fleshy bodies covered with anthers; and two of those 
three species are known to bear a globose, not sulcated fruit. 
These might form the type of a genus under Rumphius 
original name, Mangostana.— G. Cambogia has the stamens of 
the male flower ranged in a single row,* round a disk-like 
receptacle, with a sulcated fruit. This might constitute the 
type of a second genus; for which, as nearly corresponding 
with the character assigned by Linnzeus to his Garcinia, that 
name might be retained.—In G. Kydia, Zeylanica, pedunculata, 
Paniculata and affinis, the filaments are united into a staminal 
: 3 * This I now find is an error; Roxburgh, when he prepared the figure of 
.. his Garcinia Cambogia, was unacquainted with the male flower, and only = 
. Tpresents the bi-sexual one. —— Mo gue n RAE 
