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But few of the species of this genus have been admitted into the flower garden, which is the more 
remarkable as many of them are naturally very handsome, and might, I should suppose, be improved under 
proper treatment. The H. Mysorense, so common on the hills, certainly does form a very ornamental addition 
to the flower border, even when little care is taken of it, and uader skilful treatment might, I think, be greatly 
improved ; so would H. Hookerianum if it will thrive in the garden, as its flowers are much finer than those 
of the other, when seen to advantage, which they are not in the accompanying figure. 
and anastomosing ; pellucid dots round and oblong, saucer-shaped from the overlapping of the edges of 
black dots none : flowers (large) clustered at the ends the petals, lt isat once distinguished from H. My- 
of the branches : sepals roundish-obovate, obtuse,en- sorense by the form and direction of the leaves 
tire, without black dots: petals not dotted: stamens which are distichousin this, and decussate, or cross- 
very numerous: styles 5, distinct, overtopping the ing and spreading in four directions, in that, 
samens,shorter than the ovary : stigmas obtuse ; cap- 
tule 5-celled.— W. and A, Prod. p. 99. 
XVII.—GUTTIFERA.—Man costeen TRIBE. 
This is a small but very interesting family as being,that from which the Mangosteen 
(one of the finest fruits in the world) and the Gambage (a substance quite unique in its 
properties) are obtained. So far as the Indian species are concerned, it is peculiarly tropical 
in its habits. The Garcinia here represented is one of the least so I have yet seen, growing 
as it does, at an elevation of very nearly, if not fully, 6,000 feet, being found in considerable 
abundance in the woods about Coonoor. 
This family has been divided into four sections, according to characters taken from 
the fruit, but, tomy mind, nothing could be more unnatural than the combination as it now 
stands in the latest Botanical works. The two first sections are Clusiee and Monorobee ; the 
first more nearly associated with Hypericineae than true Guttiferae, haying polyspermous 
capsules! as in Hypericum, while the latter having quinary flowers and many-seeded 
berries, approaches Xanthochymus ; the third section Garcinie combines Garcinea with Xan- 
thochymus and Pentadesma, two nearly allied genera, but yet so perfectly distinct from Garer- 
nia, that theymight be united into a section or evenorder by themselves, as genera resembling, 
but not true congeners of Garcinea. Mammea, an American genus, seems to associate better ; 
but its leaves have pellucid points as in Hypericum, apoint of structurenot elsewhere found in 
this family, and therefore demanding further investigation. The fourth section, Callophyllee, 
is more natural, and associates with true Guééiferae in its quaternary flowers and erect ovules. 
The whole order, however, requires revision ; for, as now constituted, it is undistinguishable 
from Hypericineae and includes several genera very remotely if at all related. 
The two genera here figured belong respectively to the two Indian sections Garer 
nieae and Mesueae which with Callophylleae form together the proper types of the family, as 
indicated by the quaternary arrangement of their flowers. The only — so 9 as | ae 
learn from written characters, in which they agree with American divisions, is in having 
opposite shining glabrous leayes Reasoning from the same data only, written characters, I 
