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sert fruit. The plant furnishes the gamboge, the orange-red gum-resin of commerce.' 

 It is called cochin goraka and is cultivated in the Public Gardens of Jamaica.^ 



G. ovalifolia Oliver. 



African tropics. It yields edible fruit.' 



G. paniculata Roxb. 



Himalayan region. The fruit is edible.* The fruit of this species raised in Calcutta 

 is represented as about the size of a cherry, that of native specimens received from Silhet 

 about twice as large.^ 



G. pedunculata Roxb. 



Himalayan region. The fleshy part of the fruit which covers the seeds and their 

 juicy envelope, or aril, is in large quantity, of a firm texture and of a very sharp, pleasant, 

 acid taste. It is used by the natives in their curries and for acidulating water. 



G. xanthochymus Hook. f. 



East Indies and Malay. The plant bears a round, smooth apple of medium size, 

 which, when ripe, is of a beautiful, yellow color. The seeds are from one to four, large, 

 oblong and immersed in pulp. The fruit is very handsome and in taste is little inferior 

 to many of our apples. Firminger * says the fruit is intolerably acid. Drury ' says that 

 its orange-like fruit is eaten; Unger,* that it is pleasant-tasted. 



Gardenia brasiliensis Spreng. Rubiaceae. 



Brazil. This plant affords, according to J. Smith,' an edible fruit about the size of 

 an orange. 



G. gununifera Linn. f. 



East Indies. The fruit is eaten.'" The fruit is eaten in the Circar Mountains of 

 India." 



G. jasminoides Ellis. 



China. The flowers are used for scenting tea." 



Garuga pinnata Roxb. Burseraceae. 



Malay and East Indies. The fruit is eaten raw and pickled." 



' Smith, J. Diet. Econ. Pis. 189. 1882. 



* Morris Rpt. Pub. Card. Jam. 35. 1880. 

 'Royle, J. F. Illustr. Bol. Himal. 1:133. 1839. 



* Unger, F. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 339. 1859. 

 'Wight, R. lUustr.Ind. Bot.i:i2S. 1840. 



Firminger, T. A. C. Card. Ind. 207. 1874. {Xanthochymus pictorius) 

 'Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 593. 1879. {Xanthochymus pictorius) 

 linger, F. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 336. 1859. {Xanthochymus pictorius) 

 Smith, J. Dom. Bo(. 334. 1871. 



' Brandis, D. Forest Fl. 270. 1874. 



"Don, G. Hisl. Dichl. Pis. 3:497. 1834. {G. arborea) 



"Fortune, R. Resid. Chinese 201. 1857. {G.florida) 



" Brandis, D. Forest Fl. 62. 1876. 



