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their I rticulated peduncles ; in die Donnal number of i! 



their Bowers, which appears to be two and its multiples, instead ol fivi w\ 

 in Tutsans ; in their anthers united the whole length with th< 

 articulated at it- Bummit ; in thi which often have an aril, and 



each <•< II of the ovary, a character found in no '1 



• •I the fruit of Borne Vismias is due to abortion i ; finally, in the structure "t ii. 

 which is different in the two Orders. Tut- 

 sans, m bave the carpels often 

 nearly distinct. Marcgraaviads are dis- 

 tinguished by their alternate leaves, the 

 lingular form of their low< r bracts, their 

 petals frequently united, their unsymmetri- 

 cal Bowers, and bj their ing verj 

 small, and exo dingly numi rous." R 

 remarks that Guttifers are in some 

 -l'i cts alii. '1 1" Ebonj -•■« n 

 bj comparing species of < rarcinia « ith some 

 kimls of Diospyrus, 



All natives of the tropics, the gn 

 pari of Smith America ; a few :uv from 

 Madagascar and the continent of Africa. 

 They it* nerally require situations ».-» »n ii ■in- 

 in_' exa Bsive beat and humidity. 



An acrid, purgative, yellow gum resin 

 appears to be a very general secretion of 

 the various Bpeciee of this i >rder. [n on 

 its forms it becomes the gamboge oi com- 

 merce, a substance well known because 

 of its use as a pigment, and as an active 

 medicine dangerous in over-doses. The 

 best gamboge comes in the form of pipes 

 from Siam, and this is conjectured to be the 

 produce oi Garcinia cochinchinensis ; ai 

 ther kind, in lumps, has been said to 

 derived from Cambogia gntta, called also 

 Hebradendron cambogioides ; but I 

 Wight's last experiments are not favourable 

 ty this supposition, and he expn ssly b! 

 mat the t< are of Cambogia gutta •• are a sub- 

 stance altogether distinct from true gam- 

 boge." Roxburgh says he received frequent samples of th< 

 pictoriafrom a correspondent at Tellicherry, and uniformly found it. ev< □ in its 

 unrefined state superior in colour, while recent, t.> any other kind he had □ 

 not so permanenl as thai from China. Dr. Royle confin 

 juice, however, of Xanthochymus pictorius is said to b ofverj inl lity. 



The seeds of Calophyllum inophyllum yield an oil, and -j resin 

 which is supposed by some authors to be the same as the Tacamaha 

 Bourbon. The true East India Tacamahaca is produced bj ( , l 

 resin is refi rred to the same species. Martins states that C. 

 acrid aromatie lemon-scented resin. The Hog Gum 

 Bancroft to he a plant of this ( (rder allied to Ochrocarpus and > 

 sinmis Bubstance, burning with a smoke and \ ielding an ari mat 

 Jowrn. -l. 111. Dr. Macfadgen asserts that this Hog gum is thi 

 oanani of Brazil, and thi r Moronobi a a o b ■ ... to which 



It is largely used in the West Indies for the same purj 

 form of pills, as a substitute for balsam 

 the Hog gum to Qusia Bava. Balsam >>f .Maria i omi - fn i i 

 and a great many more furnish .similar balsamic sul 

 juice of Mammea is employed t" destroy the cl 

 which attack the naked feet, introducing thems 

 The Butter and TaDow-tn - rra Leone, which 



acta") to the yellow greasy juice its fruit yields when cut, 

 flowers of Qusia insignia weep a consideral 



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