G'lS poLYAXDRiA MONOGVNiA. Garciuia. 



the Botanic garden in Bengal, and others have been reared 

 from seed received from the same gentleman ; but both sorts 

 soon died. I have therefore much reason to think the Ar- 

 bor Zeylanka ofBurm. Flor. Zeyl. p. 27, is different, for 

 though the fruit of both is small, and contains four seeds, 

 yet that of Ceylon has round leaves which is by no means 

 the case in our ^^ ynaad tree ; and J am further inclined to 

 think that this very tree of Burman is now in this garden, 

 at least I have several plants of one which was reared 

 from seed, sent from Ceylon by General Macdouall, about 

 nine years ago, under the Cingalese name Ambid ghoorka^ 

 they are now beautiful small trees, with polished, thick, 

 obtuse, oval leaves; two of them have produced male flow- 

 ers abundantly, and from their situation and structure I 

 think will be a new species of Xanthochynnis. 



Tree tall, ^ay sixty feet high, of a conical shape, and 

 veiy- full of branches. Bark pretty thick, scabrous and 

 famous on the outside of a durk ferruginous colour, in- 

 termixed with many yellow specks, and through its sub- 

 stance, particularly on the inside, considerahle masses of 

 gamboge are found. Young shoots somewhat angular, 

 smooth, polished, of a deep green. Leaves opposite, short- 

 petioled, oblong-ventricose, rather acute, entire, smooth 

 on both sides, and of a firm texture, from three to four 

 inches long by one and a half or two broad, Her/naphro- 

 dite flowers, axillary, over the axills of the former year, 

 solitary, sessile, of a middling size, and yellow <:olour. 

 Brontes some very short, obscure scales, round the inser- 

 tion of the flowers. Calyx of two unequal pairs of con- 

 cave, obtuse leaflets, permanent. Petals four, oval, longer 

 than the calyx. Filaments united into four bodies, which 

 are again united at the base into a narrow ring, round 

 the bottom of the young germ' above each body is divided 

 into from two to six single unequal, short filaments. 

 Anthers from ten to fifteen, oblong, two-lobed, and seem- 

 ingly fertile. Germ superior, round, four-celled, with one 



