218 DK. E. BONATIA OX CULTIVATED TKUK LIMES. 



I have not had an opportunity of seeing a larger and riper 



epceimon ; but in my mind I have little doubt that the Xmo of 



Ceylon and Eumphius's Limo tulerosus are direct descendants of 



Kurz's wild Citrus Ilystrix, and that from these semi-cultivated 



descendants all our varieties of Limes have come. It is not 



improbable that with the Dutch and their Malay servants came 



to Ceylon the Lima as a hair- wash as well as the smooth Lime. 



Afterwards, the Ciaghalese, finding the Lima a good antidote 



against land leeches, gave it the additional name of Kudahi dild 



{cUhi is the name of their cultivated edible Lime, and Kudalu 

 means leech). 



This semi-wild Lima I have never seen or heard of in India, 

 but I think its derivatives are the cultivated forms of Lime, 

 such as the small goldsmiths' Lime, Limonellus aurarius and 

 Limo Fenis of Eumphius, and other similar common forms of 

 Lime. In any place in India, if you find no other Citrus, you 

 are sure to find the small thin-skinned Lime, the Kar/Uinimloo 

 {Kaghzi means "of paper thickness" with reference to the skin), 

 and it is always raised from seed. 



It is not unlikely that the true Limes of India were also 

 introduced by the Dutch. The " Jamliri " of India, which is a 

 Sanskrit name, is I think a totally difl^erent thing, and owes its 

 origin to another source, although now the two names ''Jamhiri " 

 and "Kaghzi nimloo" are often mixed up. 



Conclusion.— In my opinion the wild Citrus Ilystrix, DC, is 

 the ancestor of Limo tulerosus, Eumph., and Lima of Ceylon, 

 and all their derivatives— imo agrestis, Limo Ferus, Limonellus 

 aurarius, and those figured in tab. 28 & 29, all of Eumphius ; 

 and also the ancestor, more distantly, of all our other culti- 

 vated true Limes of India, Ceylon, and other parts. In my 

 opinion, the reason why the Lime has so persistently a winged 

 petiole, is the immense winged petiole of its progenitor, Citrus 

 Hystrix, it being too prominent a feature to be obliterated by 

 cultivation. If this be not conceded, at all events it will be 

 allowed that the true Lime, the C. acida of Eoxb., is a nearer 

 relative of C. Hgstrix than of 0. medica. 



