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found in Bombay,) it might be much improved. I have been 

 informed by a friend, that the Mangosteen ripens (and is equal 

 to the Penang fruit) in the Company's spice gardens on the 

 hills near Courtallum. 



GARCINIA GAMBOGIA. This tree grows to a large size, the fruit 

 furrowed, acid, and pleasant, size of a small orange, is common 

 throughout the Malabar Coast. 



GARUGA PINNATA. Burseracece. NAT. KOORUK. A tree, leaves 

 pinnate, deciduous ; flowers of a yellowish white, in panicles 

 covered with a mealy kind of white substance ; fruit size of a 

 small plum, used for pickling. 



GINGER. Vide Amomum Zingilter. 



GMELINA ARBOREA. Verbenacece. NAT. SEWUN. A large tree ; 

 leaves petioled, cordate and pointed; flowers in April and May, 

 large, yellow, tinged with brown. The wood of the tree is used 

 for making the cylinders of drums, &c. 



GMELINA ASIATICA. S. BIDDARI. TAM. NEKLACOMUL. A shrub ; 

 with small scolloped leaves and large yellow flowers armed with 

 thorns, and forms an excellent hedge. 



GMELINA PARVIFLORA. TAM. GOOMADI. A shrub like the 

 former, having dark orange coloured flowers. 



GOSSYPIUM RELIGIOSUM. Malvaceae. This shrub produces a 

 brownish coloured cotton, commonly called Nankeen cotton, it 

 is more generally cultivated in gardens as an exotic, on account 

 of the colour of its wood. 



GOSSTPIUM NIGRUM. This is an ornamental tall growing 

 shrub generally cultivated in gardens on account of its dark 

 red flowers ; from the staple of the wood being short 

 although fine, it is not of much value. 



GOSSTPIUM ALBUM. NAT. KAPAS OR Rooi. The common cotton 

 plant. This plant is generally cultivated at the commencement 

 of the rains in the black soil throughout the Deccan : the plant 

 attains the height of from eighteen inches to four and a half 

 feet, according to the soil and culture. 



GRAPES. Vide Vitis Vinifera. 



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