334 REMARKS ON CAMBOGIA GUTTA, 
ever, of this greater portion cannot be ascertained from the 
few very young flower-buds belonging to it. It approaches 
also very closely, in its leaves especially, to that specimen — — 
in Hermann’s herbarium which may be considered as the type 
of Linnsus' Cambogia Gutta. A loose fruit, pasted on the - 
sheet with Konig's plant, probably belongs to the larger 
portion, and resembles Gertner’s Morella.” PEE 
So far all appears clearly in favour of Stalagmitis, and had - 
Murray in drawing up his character rigidly confined himself 
to the description of the flowers before him, I should at once 
have adopted his name in preference to Roxburgh’s. But 
on turning to his character, as given in Schreber's Genera 
Plantarum, we find a 4-leaved calyx, a 4-petaled corolla, and 
a 4-lobed stigma, combined with pentadelphous stamens, 3- 
seeded berries, thestigmas sometimes trifid, stamens not always 
polyadelphous? &c. From this very unusual combination of 
quinary and quaternary forms, I am led to infer that the char- 
acter is only partly derived from the specimen, and partly, if 
. not principally from notes communicated by König, who, It- 
appears, from the fact of his having combined, on the suppost- 
tion that they were the same plant, two distinct species, was 
not aware of the difference, and misled Murray by transmit- 
ting written characters of a Garcinia, and flowers of another 
plant; so that, between the two, there has resulted a set of 
characters not likely to be often found combined in the same 
species, and still less frequently in one small specimen. Rox 
burgh, on the other hand, briefly and clearly defines a genus. 
of plants well known to him, and extensively distributed ovet 
India, about which he has scarcely left room for a mistake. 
.. Af further proof be wanted in support of the opinion I ha: 
. advanced that this is a hybrid genus, I adduce Cambessédes, 
Whose authority is quoted for the identity of Stalagmitis and 
= Xanthochymus. He has strictly followed Murray, adopte". 
. all the contradictions of his character, and constituted a genus 
ying, first, Roxburgh's genus Xanthochymus; neXt 
rs ' Brindonia, evidently identical with Garema 
ycarpus, also Garcinia; and lastly, (if 
