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G. Kydia, Roxl). E.T. Tropiciil forosts from C'liittat^onsi to 



Toimg-tha-k'h (Kurz). Tenasserim ami the Aiukmaus. 



Berry terminated by a nipple-shaped piDtuberance. Anthers 4-celled. 



°° Stiff ma ill fruit quite sessile. 

 f Jfiile and female Jfoicers solitari/ to ternanj. 

 G. MicBosTicMA, Kz. S. Trojiical forests of Soutli Andaman. 



Stigma minute, dot-like, smooth. Anthers 2-eelk-d. 



° ° ° Stigma tuhe/rled. 



G. LANCE^FOLiA, Roxh. IIT. Chittagong Hills. 



Leaves acumiuate or cuspidate, leatliery. Flowers sessile. Anthers 4-cclled. 



G. succiFOLiA, Kz. £.T. Swampy forests near the Tsittoung and 



G. loniceroides, T. And. Irrawaddy Rivers. 



Leaves blunt, succulent. Flowers pcdicelled. Anthers 2-celled. 



G. PAXicuLATA, Roxb. T. Chittagong. 



Male flowers jianicled, tlie females in terminal spikt' 



it's. 



XXX ^iiitliers prllafe, open in 1/ h\j a circular slit. 



G. KLLirncA, "Wall. E.T. Tropical forests of Pegu, Martabau 



G. heterandra, Wall. and Tenasserim up to 3000 feet. 



Tha-nat-tor. 



Leaves large, coriaceous. Female flowers almost sessile, the stigma small, 

 veirucose. 



A A Flowers 5-meroiis. 



G. (XAXTHocnYMrs) ncTORins, Roxb. Tropical forests from Ava and Cliit- 



G. lioxburghii, Kz. tagong to Tenasserim. 



Mator or Mador. 



Pedicels about an inch long. Petals expanded. 



G. (XANTHocHYjins) DCLCis, Roxb. E.T. Tropical forests of the Andamans. 



Pedicels 3-4 lines long. Petals almost closed, half the size. 



Kurz adds from the Nicobars : 



G. (Xaxtiiochyjids) jELixEKir, Kz. Tillan-ehoung. 



This Order is remarkable as producing one of the finest fruits of the tropics, the 

 Mangosteen, though the tree will only thrive in the extreme South of Tenasserim, 

 being indigenous to the -warm and moist climate of the Malayan Peninsula. The 

 thick and somewhat fleshy case which protects the ball of snowy delicate pulp 

 ■within is very astringent, and exudes yellow globules of a gamboge. All the trees, 

 indeed, of this genus furnish a yellow gum, but it is only one or two species which 

 yi(!ld a g>im easily soluble in water. The best gamboge is produced by G. elliptica, 

 but an inferior article is produced by G. cornea, G. anomala, G. coica, G. Kijdia, 

 G. succifolia, G. xitnthochymus and G. (Jlebrodendron) morella. Garcinia Cambogia, 

 Des. non Roxb,, yields a iileasant fruit and a gamboge quite insoluble in water, 

 and it is the complete solubility of the best gaml)oge that distinguishes it from inferior 

 .sorts, but it is ]irobablo that, wlien fully investigated, these insohible gamboges will 

 be found of service in the arts. In small doses Gamboge is a powerful liydragoguo 

 cathartic, especially valuable in dropsical affections, and it constitutes the active 

 ingredient of Morrison's Pills.' 



' It was an overdose of some quack pills "Wr. Edmund Joues took that cost him his life, and deprived 

 Rangoon of one of the most enterprising leaders of her mercantile coramuniiy. 



