Tas. 6745. 
CITRUS meptca, var. acida. 
The Cultivated West Indian Lime. 
Nat. Ord. Rutacez.—Tribe AURANTICZ. 
Genus Cirrus, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 305.) 
Citavs medica; fruticosa, rarius arborescens, ramulis sepius purpurascentibus, 
foliis ovatis obovatis oblongisve rarius ovato-lanceolatis subacutis crenatis, 
petiolo parvo nudo marginato v. medivcriter alato, fructu variabili umbonato 
cortice pallido crasso v. tenui, pulpa acida v. miti. 
Var. acida; frutex spinosus, foliis 1-2-pollicaribus, floribus) inter minoribus 
solitariis v. 1—3-nis albis v. pallide roseis 4-5-meris, fructa minore subgloboso 
rarius. ellipsoideo umbonato v. mamillato levi pallido, cortice tenuissimo 
glandulis minutis depressis, pulpa pallida acidissima, 
C. medica, var. acida, Brandis For. Fl. of N.W. and Centr. Ind. p. 52; Hook. f. 
Fil. Ind. vol. i. p. 515. 
C. acida, 6th variety, Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 390 in part. 
C. Lima, Me Fad. in Hook. Bot, Mise. vol. i. p. 300, and Fl. Samaio. p- 127. 
C. Limonellus, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. p. 217, and eds 2, p- 209 ; Miquel Fl. 
Ind. Bat. vol. i. pt. 2, p. 528; Wall. Cat. n. 6386. 
C. Limetta, Wight Ic. Pl. Ind. Or, t. 958 (not of Risso). 
__ The flowering and fruiting, by the Earl of Ducie, F.R.S., 
of the Lime of the West Indies, affords an opportunity.of 
making better known a fruit which has been much mis- 
understood. I should premise that the word Lime is 
promiscuously applied to fruits very different to this, 
especially in British India, where the Sweet Limes of 
various forms are universally spoken of under that name; 
and that all these, together with the West Indian Lime, are 
_ varieties of the Citrus medica of Linnzeus, which includes 
the Lemon, Citron, sweet and acid Limes of the Hast 
Indies, and the small globose-fruited plant here figured. 
C. medica is so closely allied to the C. Awrantiwm, Linn., 
_ which includes the sweet Orange, the bitter or Seville 
Orange, the Bergamotte, &c., as to have been classed with 
- -‘MaRcH Ist, 1884, 
