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developed cultivated Lime-leaf, fig. 3. The petioles are then 

 identical in form. The spines of this wild form and the adjoining 

 cultivated form are identical. The form of the blade of leaf 1 

 corresponds to that of fig. 3 ; a very common form in all tlic 

 cultivated Limes I have seen is ratlier rounded and broad in 

 proportion to its length. In other respects this Lima has all the 

 characters of a Citrus. 



By the courtesy of Dr. Trimen, I had the opportunity of looking 

 over Rumphius's ' Herbarium Amboinense.' I found that this 

 Ceylon Lima had all the characters of his ^ Limo tuberosus mar- 

 tinicusi vol. ii. tab. 26. fig. 1. Making allowances for Eum- 

 phius's artist's inaccuracies, I consider these two identical. The 

 flowers are pictured with 4 petals, and he says '^it is used for 

 washing the head." 



Vol. ii. tab. 27 of Eumphius gives Limo agrestis (in Dutch, 

 Wilde Pap-Lemoen). This is evidently a near relative to Limo 

 ttilerosus^ Mart. It has retained the broad winged petiole, and 

 has lost some of its warts. It is pictured with 4 petals; is of a 

 yellow colour, and its pulp sour and acrid. 



Another variety closely connected with Limo tiiberosiis is that 

 shown in Eumphius, vol. ii. tab. 28. It is also pictured with 4 

 petals and has broad winged petioles. I do not know the name 

 given to this by Eumphius, as the copy of the Peradeniya Library 

 has pp. 105 and 106 missing. \_Limo Ferus, Lemon Swanji, 

 Wilde Lemoen-Boom^ Latine Limo Ferns; juxta Malaicensc 

 Limoen Swangi, ob irregularem et deformem ejus figuram: 

 Eumph. Herb. Amb..ii. 106.] 



In Eumphius, vol. ii. tab. 26. fig. 3, is given a smooth form of his 



"with 



Wl 



feri " I do not know. Of this 



ovoid smooth form there are many cultivated Limes in India. 

 Some trees produce nothing but this ovoid smooth form. 



Eumphius's Limonellus aurarius, vol. ii. tab. 30, pictured with 4, 

 and also 5 petals, is, he says, the smallest of all Limes, not used 

 for food, but by goldsmiths for cleaning gold. Observe the 

 large winged petiole he gives to this small form. In India 

 there is a small smooth form, with the smaller petiole of the 

 Indian varieties, which is also used by goldsmiths for a similar 



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