GAR 
gular.—Native of the mountains of Amboyna. Rumpbius. 
ultimate branches are 
fhorter ; {mooth, firm, an 
which is farrowed above a 
even, cr 
18 eatvemély iad 
sa reddi fh or aise 
ea Java eben marked with the Malay name 
Mo ae ene appears to be what Rumphius means p. 56, 
by Munda of the Malays, and which hear people efteem the 
fame with his Lignum corneum. r {pecimen agrees very 
exactly with his account as to the ia, and the extreme 
but the flowers are fmaller, and grow 
We dare not defcribe 
it as a diftin& fpecies, becaufe there feems to be yftery 
about the inflorefcence of this whole genus s, which we cannot 
folve for want of an opportunity of tracing its progrefs in a 
ile ag fat te. 
5 ( ornea; Roxb. MSS.)—Leaves el- 
lipticanceolats, sed at each end; their veins unequal. 
low or three together, " drooping, seca 
Branches ae —Native of the Eaft Indies, communic 
to us by lord vifcount Valentia from the Calc eae. 
The branches are flen 7 numerous, oppofite, see flightly 
angular when young o eaves two or three inches long, 
carl ce nee ane “pointed at each end, opaque, their 
veins rather numerous, but very unequal, irregular and fub- 
vided. Footptalts angular, channelled. Flowers either at 
‘ie ends, or about the lower part, of the young branches, 
two or three together, on fhort angular drooping ftalks, 
each about the iize of a hawthorn bloffom ; male” on one 
The latter feem to have the fhorteft 
one only 3 is fruitful, ities the germen {welled to the fiz 
a black atiges be a ange tumid, lobed. and wrinkled 
We cannot find any figure or defcription applicable 
to this f{pecies, un it be oe following. It does not at all 
agree with the preceding. 
"6 . Mor va "it aeeieus Morella ; se v. 2. 
06. Kannawakoraka; Herm. Muf. Zey not 76. 
Arbor a G ummi Guttam fundens, fruétu “aule; orale: 
eaves roun ndifh. 
Re Cian. 
tree when wounded fiows a copious yellow j juice, | eich gra- 
dually } hardens mto a a th gum, a ng emetic and pur- 
g Su s Burmann’s account, and Hermann ex- 
prefsly fays that a bet G Gamboge "(Gummi Wo Acoli 
from ¢ this: — ich he oo ae paaieaags of Acofta ; 
eative 
Cae oe 
of Linfe ho 
GAR 
Kannawakoraka is the beft. It feems therefore certain that 
our Garcinia Morella is the true Gamboge plant. 
never feen {pecimens of this f{pecies in any ftate. 
oped that fome light will be thrown on this obfeure fubject 
Mr. : oker who has pveuel undertaken to in- 
» velligate the cape! of pa hata —A end of this genus 
Willden ee an oblervation onal vate 
cma 
= 
cription ! 
GARCON 
thereof under the proper officers, were called gargons de la 
chambre, de la Sala aae &e. 
ARD 
Garp, Rav cific de. See Ravisument. 
Garp. ‘ps de GARDE. See Corps. 
Garp, in ries a department of France, in the fouth- 
the north by the departments of 
Nimes is its capital. 
fituated in 44° N. lat., is compofed of the diocefes of Nimes, 
Alais, and Uzés, contains 292 {quare leagues, and 309,052 
inhabitants, i in 38 cantons, and 365 communes, and is divided. 
into four diftriéts, viz. Alais, whofe inhabitants amount to 
65,446, Uzes, 72,033, Nimes, 113,785, and Le Vigan, 
57,788. Its contributions amount to 2,866,398 francs, and 
public inftru€tion, are 311,120 fr. 66 c ect 
hills, the foil is, in general, abundantly ede producing 
grain, wine, delicious fruits, i, and p t has mines 
copper, iron, aoe nd oie: minerals a arries of marble, 
and mineral fprin 
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Aes 
DA, a ae of Italy, between the Veronefe and the 
Breffan, about 30 miles long, and from two to feven wide.— 
Alfo, a town of Ttaly, in the Veronefe, on eaft bank 
of the lake above-mentioned. In the time of the Guelphs 
Gibellines ae was a celebrated “> wit a citadel 5 
but at prefent it open place; an the ruins. of the 
citadel has been built an hermitage, or cee. of the Car- 
thufian monks ; 16 miles N.W. of Verona. 
» dat. 
36°... E. long. ro? 43'.—Alfo, a town of Hindooften in 
Oriffa ; 75 miles S.E: of Cattack. 
ores See JOSEPH oy in Biography, was born 
at Ciotat, i nce, and after he had been created doctor 
of the fae ae oe Montpelier, = repaired to Paris, where he 
again oo the e degree. His talents procured him’ 
the hono in in the pen panies of Montpellier, of ' 
Nancy, of Marfelltes, and of Dijon; and by his zeal he ob- 
tained the appointment to the Bureau des Nourrices, and to. 
two hofpitals at Paris. In this city he was active 
a lane ee everal yzars, in contributing tot 
and cure of the moit deftru@ive and foathis ome difeafes which 
aia x ers efpecially the {mail-pox and the lues venerea. 
He publifhed a confiderable number of treatifes, at Paris, 
between the years 1767 and 1776, chiefly relating to the 
two ven pes wna Eloy. Diét. Hil 
GARDANNE, in Geography, a town of Fra n the 
ie of ca: ae of the Rhore, and chief Blce . 
a Can. 
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