STALAGMITIS CAMBOGIOIDES, AND LAURUS CASSIA. 335 
. am not misled by Mr George Don, whom I am obliged for 
want of Cambessédes’ own memoir to follow) nearly the 
.. whole of Roxburgh's species of Garcinia; as if Roxburgh was 
. motable, with growing plants before him, to discriminate be- 
_ tween two genera so very distinct as Garcinia and his own 
.. Xanthochymus. In a paper published in the Madras Journal 
— f Science for October 1836, I showed, from the internal evi- 
. dence afforded by the two sets of characters, that Murray's 
.. Slalagmitis and Roxburgh's Xanthochymus were almost iden- 
_ tical, and attributed the discrepancies to the defects of Mur- 
ray’s solitary specimen; a view which Mr Brown has shown 
to be only partly right, by proving that they in some measure 
. Originated in the imperfect observation of Konig, who sup- 
plied Murray with the materials for his genus. 
— Having now adduced what I esteem conclusive evidence in 
Support of the opinion I advanced above, that Murray's 
. Benus is spurious, and that of Cambessédes, founded on it, is 
_ ‘Most unnatural, as it associates species that never can combine 
= generically; while Roxburgh’s is a strictly natural genus, in- 
. Cluding several nearly allied species, and, moreover, probably 
_ belonging to a Natural Order, different from more than half 
: the species referred to it under the name of Stalagmitis by 
.. Cambessédes; I consider myself fully justified in continuing to 
. adopt the generic name Xanthochymus (even though opposed 
. by the highest botanical authorities), until careful examination - 
_ of the original specimen, with reference to the elucidation of 
_ the discrepancies I have indicated, shall have proved that such. 
Actually exist in that specimen. If they do exist, the J 
fault is not Murray's, and his name must of right be adopted — 
with an amended character, excluding the numerous species 
of Garcinia brought under it by Cambessédes : if they do not, 
xburgh's genus, which as it now stands is strictly natural, | 
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