128 ON THE GAMBOGE OF THE TENASSERIM PROVINCES. 
the latitude of the mouth of the Tavoy river, and throughout 
the Province of Morgui, there is found, on the low plains 
at the foot of the hills, and on the banks of the rivers, 
almost down to tide waters, another species of Garcinia, 
that also produces good gamboge. I have no doubt but it 
is the tree from which Dr. Griffiths furnished Dr. Wight 
with specimens, and which the latter says " I refer doubt- 
fully to Wallich's G. elliplica.^' We will call it then G. 
elliptica, a species which Dr. Wight has on his list of 
"species imperfectly known." The foliation and female 
flowers are, however, very well described, and to complete 
the description, I may add, the male flowers are peduncu- 
lated, but the peduncles are short, and they might be cha- 
racterized as sub-sessile. The anthers, like those of the fe- 
male flowers, are sessile, depressed or flattened above, and 
dehisced circularly. The ripe fruit is globose, and not 
furrowed. As I send along with this paper specimens of 
both male and female flowers, any of your botanists will 
be able to correct me at a glance, if I be in error. 
Neither Wallich, Wight, nor Griffiths, appear to* have 
been at all aware that this species produces gamboge. Dr. 
Wight, in a recent number of his Neilgherry plants, says : 
<f Two species of the genus Garcinia are known to produce 
gamboge ; most of the others yield a yellow juice, but not 
gamboge, as it will not mix with water. The species which 
he has described as producing gamboge, and to which I 
suppose he refers, are G. gutta,H. camhogioides {Gxohdim,) 
and G. pictoria (Roxburgh.) That others may be enabled 
to judge of the character of the gamboge produced by this 
tree, 1 have the pleasure to send specimens of its exudation. 
In its appearance to the eye, and in its properties as a pig- 
ment, I have failed to discover the slightest diflerence be- 
tween it and the gamboge of commerce. It serves equally 
well to colour drawings; the Burmese priests often use it 
to colour their garments, and the Karens to dye their thread. 
It is also used by the native doctors in medicine, but I 
