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Masearene isles ; tlie balsam of focot and angelic tacamac of Mada- 

 gascar have also been attributed to Calophyllum. In Peru, C. 

 thv/riferum gives a yellowish resinous juice having the properties of 

 incense. That of C. InopJiyllum,^ a species common in Asia, Oceania, 

 and Africa, is purgative and vomitive, and the bark of the same tree 

 is extolled as diuretic. The American Bheedia has analogous pro- 

 perties. Mesua, especially M.ferrea ^ (fig. 380) and speciosa,^ Indian 

 species, have a root and a bark bitter, aromatic, sudorific. The fruit 

 is acrid and purgative ; the leaves rich in mucilaginous matter. In 

 America, several species of Clusia are valued for their latex. That 

 of G. rosea* (fig. 355, 356) is thick, balsamic, and bitter; it is used 

 for the same purposes as pitch and scammony. That of G. flava is 

 considered a vulnerary.^ From the G. insignis ' of Brazil flows 

 abundance of resinous juice. The bitter bark of G. Pseudochina ' 

 has been used to adulterate Peruvian bark. G. Panapanari ^ (fig. 

 359, 360) yields, in Guyana, a yellow juice resembling gum-gutta. 



A great number of Glusiacece are esteemed in both worlds for their 

 fruit. One of the most delicious of tropical Asia is said to be that 

 of Garcinia Mangostana'^^ (fig. 376, 377). It is a berry with a 

 coloured coriaceous bitter and astringent pericarp. This is rejected 

 and the white sweet aromatic exterior tegumentary layer of the seeds 

 is eaten reported to be of exquisite flavour. Some other Garcinias 



• L. Spec. 732 (not Lamk.). — ^Wight, IU. i. (part), Spec. iv. 976 [Figuier maudit, Millepieds, 



128 ; Icon. t. 77.— Pl. et Tri. loc. cit. 282. — C. Copegrande in Panama, Cupay in Venezuela). 

 ovatifolium NoK.— C. Bintmgor EoXB.— C. Blu- * L. Spec. 1495.— jAca. Amer. 272, 1. 167 ; lo. 



mei Vfiawi.—Binicmgor'maritima Rumph. Herb. Pict. t. 251.— DO. Frodr. i. 559, n. 3. — Eosenth. 



Amboin. ii. 211, t. 71. — Ponna, Poima Maram op. cit. 740. 



Ehbbd. Sort. Mai. iv. 76, t. Zi.—Fooraha Flag. * What has been attrihuted to the juice of 



Maixg. 139.--Kalophyllodendron indicmn folio this plant ought probably to be applied to that 



suirotmdo Vaill. Mem. Acad. Par. (1722) 207. of Symphonia globulifera (p. 418, note 6). 

 —?Bahamaria Iiiophyllim Lour. Fl. Gochinch. ' Mart, ex Eosenth. op. cit. 741. 



(ed. 1790) 470 {Bomba-gass in Ceylon, Jamplond * Pcepp. ex Eosenth. loc. cit. 



in Java, Tamana in Otahiti. ' Chois. DG. Prodr. u. IZ.—Quapoya Panapa- 



' L. Spec. 734 (part). — Kosenth. op. cit. 745. nari Aubl. Guian. ii. 901, t. 344. — H. Bn. Sull. 



■ —M. Nagaha GA-Rjys.—Naghas Hbs.m. Zegl. 7.— Sac. Linn. Par. 77. 

 Arbor Naghas BvRM. Tlies. Zeyl. ib.—Nagasm- '» L. Spec. 635.— DC. P™<f»-. i. 660, n. 1.— 



rium EuMPH. Herb. Amboin. vii. t. 2. Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 618.— Chois. Gutt. Ind. 33. — 



' Chois. DC. Prodr. i.. 562 ;, Gutt. Ind. 40.— Hook. Bot. Mag. t.' 4847.— Pl. et Xri. Ann. Sc- 



Balluta Tsjampacam s. Castanea rosea indica A^ai. ser. 4, xiv. 325.— Gdib. Z)™<7. -Sim^i. ed. 6, 



Rheed. Hort. Malab. iii. 63, t. 53. iii. 602.— Laness. 'Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 62.— 



■• L. Spec. 1495. — TuKP. Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. Mmgoatana Rumph. Serb. Ami. i. t. 43.— Gar- 



156.— SoHLCHTL. Linnma, viii. 181.— Pl. et Tri. cin, Act. Angl. 431, t. 1 (ex 'W.).—Mangostana 



Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xiii. 324. — Eosbnth. op. cit. Garcinia G^rtn. Fruct. ii. t. 105. 

 740.— C. retusa Lamk. III. t. 852.— C. alba W. 



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