168 . GUTTIFER 2. 
fruit. To obtain it the rind is first boiled in water to remove 
tannin, and afterwards exhausted by boiling alcohol; upo 
evaporation of the alcoholic extract, a yellow amorphous m 
is obtained, which consists of mangostin and resin; this 
redissolved in boiling alcohol, and water added to the boi 
solution as long as it causes a precipitate of resin. From 
solution on cooling mangostin is obtained in small ye 
scales ; it may be purified by resolution in alcohol and precip 
tation by subacetate of lead; remaining traces of resin 
mangostin is obtained in thin golden yellow scales, which 
tasteless, and fuse at about 190° C.; at a higher Bie. u 
cea sii doaioaiiincia nitric acid converts it into oxali 
sulphuric acid forms with it a deep red solution and ch 
heated. It forms yellow solutions with alkalies. It1 
acid. (Ann. der Chem. und vine t. xciii., p 83; 
= ate ea: p- 310.) 
GARCINIA MORELLA, Doesrouss. 
Bign—Bostl and Trim., ¢. 33; Wight Ic., t, 102. G 
boge tree (Eng.), Guttier des peintres (F’r.). 
Hab.—Fastern Bengal, Western Peninsula, 
Peninsula, Ceylon. The gum-resin. 
Vernacular.—The tree, Makki-maram, Korakapuli (! 
_Jarigehulimara (Can. ), Tamél (Hind., Beng., Mar.). The 
_ Tamal (Hind., Beng., Mar., Can.) The sais! —_ 
a agg —— bidet ope Reva 
