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gostana celehica, Burman is certainly wrong, for there can 
be no doubt, I think, that the Panitsjica is a Diospyros, 
which Gsertner, mistaking the position of the calyx, called 
Embryopteris. Further, what Rumphius states concerning 
the juice of the Mundo, which he says is yellow, is by no 
means reconcilable with the Panitsjica, the juice in the un- 
ripe fruit of which is, as Rheede expresses it, " humor giu- 
tinosus aqueo pellucidus."" I am, however, inclined to think, 
that the Mundo, although quite different from the Panits- 
jica, is really of the same genus with the Mangostana cele- 
hica ; for I know a tree, which I take to be the Mundo, 
and which Dr Roxburgh for some time took to be the 
Garcinia celehica^ but which, on farther consideration, he 
called Garcinia pictoria. I found it in a garden at Barui- 
pur, where it probably had been imported from abroad, 
and sent it to Dr Roxburgh in 1799. I also sent a de- 
scription and drawing to Sir J. E. Smith, coloured with its 
own gum, that is, the flowers were coloured entirely with 
this substance, while indigo was added for the green parts. 
This pigment is, however, very different from true gam- 
boge, being less readily soluble in water, and its colour re- 
maining unchanged when mixed with potass. I am inclined, 
however, on account of this yellow juice, to think, that this 
is the Kanna Gorakha of the Cingalese, or the Carcapuli 
of Linscot, which Caspar Bauhin, and after him Burman 
(Thes. Zeyl. 27), Linnaeus (Fl. ZeyL 195), and the Com- 
piler of the Encyclopedic (iii. 701), confounded with the 
Carcapuli of Acosta, or Gorakha of the Cingalese, as Her- 
mans, in a letter to Syen (Hort. Mai. i. 42), clearly points 
out. Although Burman says (Thes. Zeyl. 28) that the 
fruit of his plant has only four seeds, and although this 
number of seeds is found in what I have called Oxycarpus 
gangetica, and a greater number in that which I am now 
describing, yet the juice of the Oxycaripus gangctica is not 
