THE HEllBAllIUM AMBOINENSE. 
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a yellow pigment ; and the number of seeds, owing to abor- 
tion, is very variable, a circumstance little attended to by 
many of the older botanists. I have, at any rate, very little 
doubt that the Garcinia tinctoria of Dr Roxburgh is the 
Oxy carpus indica of the Encyclopedic (Sup. iv. 257), al- 
though the Compiler says that the hermaphrodite-flowers 
are solitary. This, indeed, is sometimes the case in the 
plant which I saw; although, in more perfect specimens, 
three, or even five, flowers at the end of the branch are 
more common. The flowers are also said by the Compiler 
to be small ; but this is by no means the case with the tree 
seen by me, and which I shall therefore describe, as being 
the Mundo. 
Arbuscula erecta ramis confertis, leevibus^ defiexis. Folia 
opposita^, petiolata, lanceolato-oblonga, integerrima^ acuminata, 
glabra, venosa, plana^ pollices quatuorlonga, sesquipolicem lata. 
Petiolus compressus, supra planus, marginatus, brevissimus, 
glaber, estipulaceus. 
Flores dioici polygamic magni, flavi;, terminales, fasciculati, 
squamis vagis ovatis obtusis concavis brevibus bracteati. In 
noasculina arbore fasciculus Justus constat e pedunculo central! 
trifloro, cum lateralibus unifloris sex, sed flos unus vel alter 
saepe deficit ; in hermaphrodita arbore Justus fasciculus habet 
pedunculum centralem uniflorum cum duobus vel quatuor la- 
teralibus, sed laterales aliquando deficiunt. 
M. Calyx tetraphyllus, coloratus, foliolis subrotundis, con- 
cavis, obtusis, patulis, alternis majoribus carinatis. Petala qua- 
tuor, assurgentia ovalia, carnosa, calyce duplo longiora margine 
tenuissimo reflexo. Filamenta plurima, crassa, brevissima, re- 
ceptaculum undique tegentia. Anthers clavatse, tetragonse. 
Pistillum nullum. Receptaculum superum, maximum, con- 
vexum? quadrilobum. 
H. Calyx et corolla ut in masculinis. Filamenta quatuor, 
petalis alterna, brevia, 3-7-fida, ramis antheriferis. Antherae 
oblongae? nescio an fertiles ! Germen subrotundum, magnum, 
superum, striis depressis 9-12 notatum, 9-12 loculare. Stylus 
brevissimus. Stigma maximum? peltatum, 9-12 lobum, lobis 
laceris. 
