ON THE GAMBOGE TREE OP CEYLON. 
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by Mrs. Walker Stalagmitis cambogioides, and what are my 
reasons for forming the opinion which I entertain. 
Linnaeus, in his Flora Zeylanica, No. 195, under the name 
Cambogia, quotes as a synonym, "Carcapuli Acostae, fructu 
malo aureo simili," of Plukenett's Mmagestum Botanicum; 
which, if it be the same as the twig figured by Plukenett in 
his Phytographia, t. 147, Jig. 3, seems to me to be Xantho- 
chymus ovalifolius. 
In the same work, Linnaeus also quotes, as a synonym of his 
Cambogia, the "Arbor Indica, quae gummi guttam fundit, 
fructu acido sulcato mali magnitudine" of Commelyn's Flora 
Malabarica, which is certainly " Coddam-pulli" of Rheede 
in Hortus Malabaricarus, Mangostana Cambogia of Gaert- 
ner, Garcinia Cambogia of Desrousseaux and of De Can- 
dolle. 
Linnaeus, lastly, in the same work, cites as a synonym for 
his Cambogia " Carcapuli Acostae, Arbor Indica gummi gut- 
tam fundens, fructu dulci, rotundo, cerasi magnitudine," of 
Burmann's Thesaurus Zeylanicus, which, I think, is cer- 
tainly Mangostana Morella of Gaertner, Garcinia Morella 
of Desrousseaux and De Candolle, and, as certainly, Stalag- 
mitis cambogioides of Moon's Catalogue of Ceylon Plants, 
and of Mrs. Walker ; but by no means the " Carcapuli" of 
Acosta in his Tractado de las Drogas, p. 356 ; which seems 
to be Carcapuli Acostae of Pluk. Mm. 81, Garcinia Cam- 
bogia of Desrousseaux. 
It would probably be thought tedious and useless to follow 
the contradictions of authors regarding the identity of these 
plants, and that which yields Gamboge, from 1748, when the 
Flora Zeylanica was published, to the present day. I shall 
therefore pass them all over, until I come to the latest. In 
the excellent " Prodromus Floras Peninsulas Indiae Orien- 
talist published by my friends, Dr. Wight and Mr. Arnott, 
in 1834, it is stated that Stalagmitis cambogioides (of Mur- 
ray) is a species of Garcinia, and perhaps identical with Gar- 
cinia Cochinchinensis of Choisy, Oxy carpus Cochinchinen- 
sis of Loureiro. The whole of the account given by Murray 
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