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the fruit was much smaller, and the leaves sharp towards 
the footstalk. It was called Janggali (sylvestris) Jamun 
(Myrcia) by the natives, and I consider it as the spontane- 
ous kind of this species, while the large fruit I consider as 
the effect of cultivation. It must be observed, that the 
name Janggali Jamun is given also to another species, 
which I call Calyptranthes tenuis^ although I think Myr- 
cia tenuis would be a more Linnaean and proper denomina- 
tion. 
Caput XXXVIII. 
Maiigostaiia, p. 132, t. 43. 
This is the Garcinia Mangostana of all modern botanists. 
Mangostana celebica, p. 134, t. 44. 
Linnaeus, in the first edition of the Species Plantarum, 
called this Garcinia celehica, and was imitated by Burman 
(Fl. Ind. 109), Willdenow (Sp. PI. ii. 848), and the Com* 
pilers of the Encyclopedic (iii. 700). Loureiro having 
observed that the flower of the Folium acidum majus of 
Rumphius (iii. 58) differed somewhat from that of the 
Mangostana, established it for a new genus, which he 
called Oxycarpus. It was afterwards discovered by M. du 
Petit-Thouars, that the Garcinia celebica belonged to the 
same genus; but he chose to give this a new name, Brin- 
donia, from Brindones, the appellation by which Garcias, 
John Bauhin, and other old botanists, knew its fruit. This 
innovation the Compiler of the Supplement to the Ency- 
clopedic (iv. 258) properly rejects, and calls the plant 
Oxy carpus celebica; but he rejects all the synonyma of 
these ancient authors, transferring them to the Oxycarpus 
indica. This he has done with great propriety, because 
the Mangostana celebica has a white juice, while that of the 
