ON THE GAMBOGE TREE OP CEYLON. 
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smooth, shining, dark-green above, paler below, veins in the 
recent state inconspicuous, especially above ; in the dried state, 
distinct on both sides. Flowers unisexual, monsecious (or 
diascious ?) Male small (eight to nine lines across,) clustered 
in the axils of the Petioles, on short single-flowered pedun- 
cles. Sepals four, subequal, imbricated, concave, membra- 
nous, veined, the outer subentire, and somewhat coriaceous in 
the bud, the inner sparingly denticulato-ciliate, yellow on the 
inside, yellowish-white on the outside. Petals four, spathu- 
lato-elliptical, coriaceous, crenulate. longer than the calyx, yel- 
lowish-white, red on the inside near the base, deciduous. Sta- 
mens monadelphous ; column four-sided ; Anthers in a round- 
ish capitulum, terminal upon a short clavate free portion of 
the filament, opening by the circumcision of aflat umbilicate 
lid ; pollen yellow, granules elliptical. No trace of a Ger- 
men. Female Flower unknown. Berry about the size of a 
cherry, round, with a firm reddish-brown external coat, and 
sweet pulp, four-locular, surrounded at the base by the per- 
sisting calyx and a few free abortive stamens, crowned with 
the four-lobed tubercled sessile Stigma ; loculament single- 
seeded. Seeds large in relation to the berry, reniform-ellipti- 
cal, compressed laterally, integuments yellowish-brown, easily 
separable into two layers ; Cotyledons thick, cohering into an 
an uniform cellular mass ; radicle central, filiform, slightly 
curved. 
Native of Ceylon. — For the color and several other parts of 
the description, I am indebted to Mrs. Walker. 
Fig. A. Male flowering branch. Fig. 1. Front view of a flower. 2. 
Back view of ditto. 3. Side view of the Calyx and column of Stamens. 4. 
Column of Stamens taken out from a bud. 5. Anther :— all but 4 and 5 
nat. size. — B. Fruit-bearing branch. Fig. l.^Section of the fruit with its 
four seeds : — nat. size. 
2. Hebradendron ellipticum ; floribus masculis axillaribus, 
fasciculatis ; sepalis exterioribus junioribus minoribus ; foliis 
lanceolato-ellipticis, apice sensim attenuatis. 
Synonym,. 
Garcinia elliptica. Wall. List of Indian Plants, No. 
4869 {not Choisy in De Cand. Prodr. 1. 516.) 
