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CITRUS nobilis. £. minor. 
Dwarf Mandarin Orange- Tree. 
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POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. AURANTIA. Jussieu gen. 259. Div. II. Fructus polysper- 
mus baccatus. Folia punctata. — Aurantia vera, у 
CITRUS. Си. 5-fidus parvus. Pet. 5, basi lata, inserta circà discum 
hypogynum, patentia. Stam. eidem disco imposita: anth. circitér 20, 
filamentis connatis in varia corpora, in cylindrum dispositis basi appressis. 
Stig. globosum. Васса cortice carnoso vesiculis (glandulis miliaribus oleum 
fragrantissimum fundentibus Garin.) innumeris papuloso, multilocularis, 
loculis 9-18, membraná propria distinctis, intüs cellulosis pulposis & 1-2- 
spermis: sem. cartilaginea angulo interiori affixa. Arbores aut frutices sem- 
pervirentes ; fol. petiolo sep? marginato ; spine in pluribus axillares solitarie ; 
peduncoli axillares aut terminales, 1-o. ти рога. Embryo rectus assurgens, 
» C. Aurantii vulgaris semine triplex distinctus nullá membraná interposita. 
uss. 
С. nobilis, petiolis sublinearibus, fructú depresso. Hort, Kew. ed. 2. 4. 
490. 
Citrus nobilis. Lour. cochinch. 2. 466. 
Acrumen nobile chinense. Galles. citr. 175. 
{=} major. Andrews’s reposit. 608. 
(8) minor. Supra. . . 
Arbor mediocris, ramis ascendentibus. Folia lanceolata, integerrima, 
sparsa, mitida, obscuro-viridia, graveolentia 3 petiolis linearibus. Flos albus, 
5-petalus, odoratus; pedunculis multjfloris terminalibus. Васса compresso- 
rotunda, subnovemlocularis, intàs et foris rubra, cortice crasso. succaso, dulci, 
eduli, tuberculoso-inequali. — Sinensi vulgari duplo major est, diametro 
5 pollices equante. Citrorum omnium gratissima. Loureiro de varietate (a) 
majore: loc, cit, , 
An entirely distinct species from the common China- 
Orange (Crrrus durantium). In the large variety (a) the 
fruit is deemed the most valuable of the genus, and called 
the Mandarin-Orange in virtue of its superiority. Both the 
large and small varieties were introduced by Sir Abraham 
Hume, by whom Mr. Edwards was favoured with the 
specimen from which the drawing has been made. Native 
of Cochinchina; cultivated at Canton. The fruit of the 
large sort sometimes measures five inches in diameter, and 
has a rind of deep saffron-colour. In 4urantium the petiole 
of the leaf is edged by broad wings and of an obcordate form; 
in nobilis it is linear with an extremely narrow straight 
edging; in the former the fruit is nearly spherical, in the 
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latter considerably depressed, so as to be of greater breadth 
