MANGOSTEEN (Garcinia Mangostana)  , a tree belonging to the order Guttiferae . It is a native of the Malay Peninsula, and is extensively cultivated in southern Tenasserim, and in some places in the Madras presidency . Poor results have followed the attempt to introduce it to other countries; and A. de Candolle refers to it as one of the most local among cultivated plants both in its origin, habitation and cultivation . It belongs to a family in which the mean area of the species is very restricted . It is an evergreen about 20 ft. high, and is somewhat fir-like in general form, but the leaves are large, oval, entire, leathery and glistening . Its fruit, the much-valued mangosteen, is about the size and shape of an orange, and is somewhat similarly partitioned, but is of a reddish-brown to chestnut colour . Its thick rind yields a very astringent juice, rich in tannin, and containing a gamboge-like resin . The soft and juicy pulp is snow-white or rose-coloured, and of delicious flavour and perfume . It is wholesome, and may be administered in fever . The genus Garcinia is.a genus of trees containing about fifty species in the tropics of the Old World, and usually yielding a yellow gum-resin (gamboge) . G . Morelia, a native of India, yields the true gamboge .