OF CULTIVATED TKUE LIMES. 217 



of any sort entire, as a typical leaf. Sometimes the small spring 

 leaves appear entire on a superficial inspection. 



In Eumpliius, vol, ii, tab. 29. fig. B, we have for tlie first time 

 the Lime, pictured with 4 petals and a small winged petiole, lilvO 

 all the varieties we have in India, like the cultivated Limes of 

 Ceylon, and the Lime of Montserrat, shown in tab. 6745 of the 

 * Botanical Magazine/ 



Nota hene. — Loureiro gives Citrus limonum, ' Plor. Cochin 

 Chin.,* as a variety of Citrus medica, and refers the reader to 

 Eumph. Flor. Amboyu. vol. ii. tab. 29, TJufortunately this 

 plate gives two different things — Fig. A, which is a Lemon, with 

 unwinged petiole, and probably a descendant of (7. medtca; and 

 Fig. B, a true Lime, like the Indiau cultivated varieties, and 

 pictured with 4 petals, aud which is probably a descendant oi Limo 

 tnberostfs of Eumphius. (Can this plate have given rise to the 

 notion that C acida of Eoxb., the Lime, is closely connected with 

 C. medica, the Lemon "^ Eumphius says that on rare occasions 

 this form is produced {op. cit. ii. tab. 29. fig. A) (though probably 

 not on the same tree). Its spines and leaves are those of 

 C. medica, Eumph., vol. ii. tab. 25, and, curiously enough, he also 

 gives a smooth form in tliis latter plate.) 



After examining Eumphius's plates and descriptions, I turned 

 to Kurz's 'Flora of Br. Burma,' and under Citrus Hystrix, DC. 

 (Shouk-pote), I found the same Limo tuherosus of Eumph. and 

 Lima of Ceylon in a wild state. If I were writing a description 

 of the Lima of Ceylon I would copy Kurz's of C. Systrix — It is 

 " armed with longer or shorter straight axillaiy spines, all parts 

 labrous ; leaves oval or ovate, 1^-2, rarely 3 in. long, petiole 1-1^, 

 often 2-3 in. long, leaf -like, expanded, and often larger than the 

 blade itself, obversely cordate or obovate-oblong ; at base con- 

 tracted in a simple petiole ; flowers 4 or 5-merous, small, white [in 

 the Ceylon Lima I found them tinged purple — E. B.], on very short 

 glabrous pedicels. . . . ; ovary obovate, terminal ed by a very short 

 thick style; berries obovate, or irregularly globose, the size of a 

 citroon or larger [a vague size; I have seen Citrons from 3 to 

 10 inches long, E. B.], very uneven and warty, almost juiceless, 

 with a thick yellow skin. Not unfrequent in tropical forests of the 

 Martaban hills , . . .; also in Upper Tenasserim. Often cultivated 

 in native gardens." — Kurz, Flor. Brit. Burma, 19G-7. 



Dr. Trimen also thinks that the Lima of Ceylon and tlic 

 G, Ilystrix of Kurz are the same thitig. 



