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the Mangosteen, than any thing else he can compare it to. The parched climate of this portion 
of India renders it unlikely that we shall ever succeed in introducing many of them 
trees annually ripen their fruit, few in number it is true, but the trees are still young. Plants 
that it is totally different from the Stalagmitis Cambogioides of Murray, the tree hitherto sup- 
posed, on most insufficient grounds, to be the source of this very valuable substance. ye See 
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