Garcinia. polyandria monogyxia. 609 



ovuliim in each attached to (he axis, a little above its 

 middle. Style noue. Stigma four-lobed, permanent. Berrif 

 size ofalar^e cherry, oval, smooth, very slightly mirked 

 with four lobes, cro\\Tied withthe sessile, four-lobed ver- 

 rucose, permanent stigma. Bark leather), pretty thick, 

 and rather spongy, one-celled. Seeds four when all ripen, 

 oblong-reniform. Perisperm and embryo as in the t'enus. 

 Male dowers. Calyx and corolla as in the female. Xecfa- 

 rium none. Filaments numerous, inserted on the crown 

 of a square fleshy receptacle, in the centre of the flower, 

 clavate, angular. Anthers peltate. Pisfillum no vestige 

 of one. 



I have received frequent samples of the Gamboge the 

 produce of this tree, trom my good correspondent 3Jr. 

 Samuel Dyer, the Surgeon at Tellicherry, and have oni- 

 formly found it even in its crude, unrefined state, supe- 

 rior in colour, while recent, to every other kind I have 

 yet tried, but not so permanent as that from China. 



10. G. cornea. WiUd. 2. 849. 



Dioecous. Ze-flrcs opposite, oblong. F/oJcers terminal ; 

 mile many-fold; female solitary. Stigma four-lobed. 

 Berry four-seeded. 



Lignum comeum. RumpJt. Anib. S. p. 55. t. 30. 



Two small, beautiful trees, one male, the other female, 

 of about twenty years growth are found in the garden of 

 the late Colonel Robt. K\d, near Calcutta, said to have 

 been originally, from one of the Malay Islands They 

 blossom in January and Febriiar>' ; and the female ripens 

 its fruit in May and June. Trunk straight Branches 

 opposite, many of them drooping; height of the whole 

 trees about twenty feet. Leaves opposite, petioled, droop- 

 ing, oblons:, entire, smooth, of a deep shininz green ou both 

 sides : from four to six inches long and about two broad. 

 Petioles about three quarters of an inch long, round, 

 smooth. 



