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the Kew specimen (with which Abbot was of course in no way con- 

 cerned) did not agree with Walter's description ; but as Abbot does 

 not ligure the fruit, it is difficult to see what this can have to do with 

 the case. Why Abbot called his jDlant a new species cannot be 

 ascertained, as it would seem he regarded it (apparently correctly) as 

 identical with C. reticulata. The original drawing — and indeed for 

 that matter Smitli's figure — agrees better with C. reticulata than with 

 C. crisjya, and Abbot's figure is cited by DeCandoUe (Syst. i. 157, 

 Prodr. i. 8) under C. reticulata as " C. rosea Abbot, insect, am. ic." 

 The specimen and the figure should thus be referred to different 

 species : 



C. rosea Abbot ex Sm. Insects of Georgia, ii. t. ci. = C. reticulata 

 Walt. 



C. rosea Sm. op. cit. p. 201 =(7. crispa L. 



Stalagmitis ca:mbogioides Murray, Comment. Groetting., ix. 173 



(1789). 

 This name is placed by M. Yesque in his monograph of the 

 GuttifercB (Mon. Phan. Prodr. viii. 193) under two species — 

 Garcinia spicata Hook. f. (^Xantliochymus ovalifoUus Roxb. (p. 310) 

 and G. Morella Desr. (p. 4'72), "' quoad synonymiamtantum." Vesque 

 refers to Planchon and Triana, who in their Memoire place it under 

 G. spicata, and write : " descriptione ex schedulis jiluribus Koenigii 

 perperam confusis et male interpretatis plane erronea et exclusis 

 synonymis " (Ann. Sc. Nat. 4th series, xiv. 304 (1860). The identity 

 of tlie plant is discussed at length by Kobert Grraham in his "Remarks 

 on the Gamboge Tree of Ceylon "''in Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 193-200 

 (1836-7) — a paper which the mention of " Graham" by the authors 

 last cited indicates that the}^ had seen, though tliey make no other 

 reference to it. Murray described his plant from portions of a 

 specimen collected in Ceylon by J. G. Koenig and sent to him 

 by Banks, with the collector's observations. At Graham's i-equest. 

 Brown examined the specimens of Koenig in the Banksian Herbarium ; 

 having done so, he wrote : " The plant sent pasted by Koenig to Sir 

 Joseph Banks as one specimen, I have ascertained to be made up of 

 two plants, and very probably of two genera. The union was con- 

 cealed by sealing-wax. The portion in flower, and which agrees in 

 structure with Murra^^'s account, is, I have no doubt, the Xantlio- 

 clu/mus of Koxburgli. Stalar/mitis and Xanthocliymus are therefore 

 one genus .... This, however, forms but a small part of the 

 whole specimen, the larger portion being, I am inclined to think, 

 the same with your plant [G^. 3Iorella\ . . . The structure of this 

 greater portion cannot be ascertained from the few very young 

 llower-buds belonging to it . . . A loose fruit, pasted on the sheet 

 with Konig's plant, probably belongs to the larger portion, and 

 resembles Gajrtner's Morella " (op. cit. 197). Neither of the mono- 

 graphers appear to have seen this specimen, which in every way 

 corresponds with Brown's description. It is endorsed by Koenig 

 " Arbor Gunnui Gutt;i'fem vera ! inter grandis mediocris. Gothathu 

 Gokathu vel Bokathu cingalensibus " — which are among the synonyms 

 quoted by Murray. 



