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ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE MANGOSTEEN AND 
they delight in abundance of water when in a free-growing state, any stagnation 
will immediately paralyse the energies of the roots, and render the plants unhealthy. 
Increase is effected by ripened cuttings, which root readily in sand, under a 
hand-glass, in heat. 
Besides the true Mangosteen, many other species are deserving of culture for 
their fruit, amongst which may be mentioned the following 
Horny- wooded Mangosteen (Garcinia cornea). This is a stove tree, growing 
in the East Indies, where it is a native, forty feet or more high ; it chiefly inhabits 
high mountainous districts. The flowers are large, like a rose, of a dull yellow, and 
are somewhat pendulous. The fruit is about the size of a plum, and is crowned with 
a lobed stigma, like that of the true Mangosteen ; the colour is a purplish brown 
outside ; within is a mucous pulp, very pleasant to the taste, but much inferior to 
the true kind. 
Morella Mangosteen (Garcinia morella). This is the Mangostana morella 
of Gcert. fruct., ii., p. 106, t. 105. It is also a native of the East Indies, and forms 
a good-sized shrub, producing abundance of small round fruit, about the size and 
appearance of a Morella cherry, whence the name ; the berry, however, is striated, 
and crowned with a four-lobed stigma. The flowers are pale yellow, and are 
produced in abundance. 
Camboge Mangosteen, or Gamboge tree, (Garcinia Cambogia,) is the Mangos- 
tana Cambogia of Gcert. fruct., ii., p. 106, t. 105 ; and the Cambogia gutta of Linn. 
Spec, 728. This forms a spreading tree, forty or fifty feet high, with large elliptic 
leaves ; yellowish, solitary, terminal, sessile flowers. The fruit is eight-furrowed, 
and crowned by an eight-lobed stigma. It is about two inches in diameter, drooping, 
on a peduncle about one inch long ; the rind is thin, smooth, and of a dull yellow. 
The pidp is succulent, yellow, sweet, and very pleasant tasted, but is apt to stain the 
mouth of the person eating it. The natives, however, of the East Indies, where it 
grows, highly esteem it, both at dessert and in their cookery. 
The plant is common about Siam and Camboge, and from the latter province 
the name Camboge or Gamboge is derived. The natives there make incisions in 
the bark, and the gum oozes out and is collected by them for exportation. 
The Cowa, or Kuwa Mangosteen (Stalagmitis cowa). The Garcinia dioica of 
Smith, in Hees Cyclop., v. 15. It is a native of several parts of the East Indies, 
where it forms a tree about twenty feet high. The leaves are large. The male 
flowers lateral, four or five together ; hermaphrodite ones solitary, terminal, and on 
short stalks. The stigma is entire, and six-furrowed. The fruit is nearly globose, 
and of a moderately good flavour. 
Celebes Mangosteen (Stalagmitis Celebica). This is the Mangostana Celebica 
of Humph. Amb., i., p. 134, t. 44, and Brindonia Celebica of Du Petit Thouars, 
Diet. Sci. Nat. v., p. 339. It is said to have been originally a native of Macassar, 
but it is now found plentifully in a cultivated form in both Java and Amboyna. The 
tree bears considerable resemblance to the common Mangosteen, and the fruit also, 
