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Mundo and Brindonia is yellow, changing into an imper- 
feet gamboge. 
In the woods, south from the Ganges in Magadha, I 
have found a tree, which, as its fruit has only four seeds, 
I should have taken to be the Brindone; but the juice of 
the tree is hmpid, or white, like that of the Mangostana or 
Oxy carpus celehica ; and the figure and account given by 
Rumphius of this agree so well with the Gangetic plant, 
that I should have considered them as the same, did it not 
appear clear that the Mangostana celehica is dioecious, ha- 
ving male-trees that produce no fruit. This, so far as I 
know, is not the case with the Gangetic plant, which pro- 
duces both male and hermaphrodite flowers on the same 
stem. It may, however, have trees producing male flowers 
alone, although such escaped my notice in travelling ; for 
I found the tree in no other place. I shall here, however, 
describe it as the Oxycarpus gangetica, leaving it to be 
determined by farther observation, whether or not it be 
really distinct from the Oxycarpus celehica. 
Oxycarpus Gangetica foliis lanceolatis, floribus in eadem ar- 
bore masculinis et hermaphroditism bacca tetrasperraa. 
Habitat in Magadhae sylvis. 
Arbor magna. Ramuli glabri^ teretes, succo aqueo scatentes. 
Folia opposita, lato-lanceolata, utrinque acuta, glabra^ nitida, 
integerrima, uninervia, venosa, acida. Petiolus brevissimus, 
glaber, marginatus. Stipule nullse. 
Floras parvi, flavi, monoici. Masculini laterales, hermaphro- 
diti terminales. Pedunculus flora breviorj teres, glaber, uni- 
florus; hermaphroditus solitarius. 
M. Calyx tetraphyllus foliolis ovalibus, concavis, coloratis, 
exterioribus duobus minoribus. Petala quatuor, erecta, ovata, 
obtusa, calyce longiora. Receptaculum centrale tetragonura, 
antheris angulatis subsessilibus tectum. 
H. Calyx et corolla ut in Masculo. Filamenta quatuor, mul- 
tifida. Antlierae plures, angulatse. German utrinque attenua- 
tum, apice quadrisulum, quadriloculare. Stylus brevissimu?^ 
Stigma quadrilobum, lacerum. 
