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coating with brass by subsequent treatment with vapors of zinc, as 
dg mentioned. 
PC 5 a in the arts have been extended in recent times, the tree 
: r. Graham, in 1836, was the first to describe accurately 
8 Species of Garcinia, which inhabits Ceylon, and which is well known 
there to produce a sort of gamboge, not, however, known in the com- 
merce of Europe. Resting on a peculiarity of the structure of the 
anthers, which are circumscissile, or open transversely by the separa- 
tion of a lid on the summit, he constituted a new genus for this plant, 
and called it Hebradendron cambogioides. At the same period th 
Author examined the properties of this gamboge, and found that it pos- 
Sesses the purgative action of the commercial drug in full intensity, and 
that the two kinds agree closely also, though not absolutely, in chemi- 
cal constitution, : : 
At an earlier period Dr. Roxburgh described, in his ‘* Flora Indica,” 
. Snother species of Garcinia, under the name of Garcinia pictoria, which 
inhabits the hills of Western Mysore, and which also was thought to 
Mysore by Dr. Hugh Cleghorn of the East India Company’s service ; 
‘ the author, on examining the gamboge, found it all but identica 
with that of Ceylon in physiological action, in properties as a pigment, 
and in chemical salt lant, with j , was 
b constitution. The same plant, with is gam mn 
&dout the same time observed by the Rev. F. n, near ‘Mergui io 
oar: ae GALE at s 
Tavoy » One of the ceded Burmese provinces. fh sy 
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