Tab. 7194. 



CITRUS AURANTIUM, var. Bercamia. 

 The Bergamot Orange. 



Nat. Ord. Kutace.e. Tribe Aukantie^. 

 Genus Citrus, Linn. (BentA. & JETook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 305). 



Citrus Aurantium, var. Bergamia ; arborea, laxe ramosa, ramulis ssepius 

 inermibus, summis angulatis viridibus, foliis ovato-oblongis acutis inte- 

 gerriniis, petiolo simplici v. anguste alato, floribus inter minoribas albis, 

 fructibus majusculis globosis v. pyriformibuspallide aurantiacis, glandulis 

 minutis depressia, carne pallida acidula, cellulis valde elongatis. 



C Aurantium, var. Bergamia, Wight & Am. Prodr. Flor. Penins. Ind. Or. 

 p. 98 ; Brandis For. Fl. N.W. & Cent. Ind. pp. 52, 572; Hook.f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. vol. i. p. 515. 



C. Limetta, var., DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 539. 



C. Bergamia, Risso et Poiteau Hist. Orang. p. Ill, t. 53-56 ; Ed. ii. p. 82 ; 



Benth. & Trim. Med. PI. vol. i. t. 52 ; Pereira Met. Med. vol. ii. pt. ii. 



p. 2032 ; Fluckiger & Hanbury, Pharmacograph. Ed. ii. p. 121. 



C. Aurantium Bergamium, Duham. Traite des Arbres, Ed. Nov. vol. vii. p. 98, 



t. 26, f. 3. 

 C. Limomum Bergamotta, Duham. 1. c. p. 81. 

 C. Limetta mela-rosa, Duham. I. c. p. 75, t. 35, f. 1 ; C. Bergamia, p. 76 ; 



C. Bergamia stellata, p. 76, t. 31, f. 1 ; Bergamia Peretta, p. 76, t. 24/2. 



The Bergamot or Bergamotte Orange is a tolerably dis- 

 tinct race or variety of the common orange (Citrus 

 Aurantium), though better distinguished by its properties 

 than by botanical characters, these last being very variable. 

 It resembles the Lemon in its large pale fruit, in the 

 elongated cells of the flesh, and in its acidity ; but the tree 

 is very much less spiny, the young shoots are green, the 

 petioles are only slightly, if at all, winged, and the much 

 smaller flowers are hermaphrodite and pure white, and as 

 well as the rhind are deliciously sweet-scented, having a very 

 peculiar subaromatic odour. It is one of the three principal 

 races of the orange proper (as distinguished from the lemons 

 and limes, see plates 6745 and 6807 of this work), the others 

 being the sweet orange, which is found truly wild in hot 

 valleys of the Eastern Himalaya, and the Deccan Peninsula ; 

 the Bigaradia (bitter or Seville orange) which, like the sweet 



September 1st, 1891. 



