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Bernards on the Gamboge Tree of Ceylon. [July 



composition in the product, and from their medicinal effects being pre- 

 cisely the same, as has been proved in Ceylon, and in this country, 

 both by Dr. Christison and myself. 



It seems probable, from some parts of the description in the Flora 

 Indica, and the quality of the Gamboge yielded by it, that Garcinia 

 pzctoria, Roxb., may prove to be another species of this genus ; but in 

 this conjecture I must be wrong, if Buchanan is correct in considering 

 this the same as Oxycarpus Indica ( Encycl. Method. Suppl. 4. 257). 

 I think, however, Buchanan is mistaken, for he deems it, at the same 

 time, synonymous with Garcinia Indica of Choisy, and with "Arbor 

 Indica Gummi guttam fundens," &c. of Burmann ; while, in fact, the 

 specimen in his Herbarium, from which he makes these references 

 (No. 1118) is Garcinia, cornea. The locality where Garcinia pictoria 

 is found (Wynaad) being limited, and the tree having been, formerly at 

 least, well known at Tellicherry, it is probable that specimens may be 

 procured to ascertain the fact. 



Hebradendron.* Graham. 

 Nat. Ord. Guttifer^:.— -Class and Ord. Mon^cia (or Disecia ?) 



MONADELPHIA. 



Gen. Char. Hebradendron. Flores diclines. Masc. Calyx mem- 

 branaceus 4-sepalus, persistens. Corolla 4-petala. Stamina monadel- 

 pha, columella 4-gona, antherse terminales, operculo umbilicato cir- 

 cumscisso. Fam. incognitus. Bacca multi (4) locularis, loculis mo- 

 nospermis, staminibus quibusdam abortivis liberis basi circumdata, 

 stigmate sessile lobato muricato coronata. Cotyledones crassse, coadu- 

 natae. Radicula centralis, filiformis. — Arbores foliis integris. 



1. Hebradendron cambogioides ; floribus masculis axillaribus, fasci- 

 culatis ; sepalis junioribus subsequalibus j foliis obovato-ellipticis, 

 abrupte subacuminatis. 



Synonyms. 



Carcapuli Linscot, Herman. Mus. Zeylan. p. 26. Ibid, in Rheed. 

 Hort. Malab. 1. 42. in nota. — Ray, Hist. Plant. 2. 1661. Samuel Dale 

 Pharmacop. 327. 



Arbor Cambodiensis Guttam Gambi fundens. Pluk. Aim. 41. Ibid. 

 Mantissa 20. 



Arbor Indica Gummi guttam fundens, fructu dulci rotundo, Cerasi 

 magnitudine, Carcapuli Acostee. J. Burmann. Thesaurus Zeylan. 27. 



Cambogia Gutta. Linn. Fl. Zeylan. 87. ( excl. omn. syn. prater. 

 Dale, Ray, Burm. Herm.J JY. L. Burmann, Fl. Indie. 119. (excl. Syn, 

 Pluk. et Rheed). 



Mangostana Morella. Gcsrt. Fruct. 2. p. 106. t. 105. 



Garcinia Morella. Desrousseaux in Lam. Encycl. Method. 3. 701, 

 Pers. Synops. 2. 3. Choisy in De Cand. Prodr. 1. 561. 



* From |y3/>a«os Zevhpcv, * a allusion to the peculiar dehiscence of the anthers. 



