Tas, 6128, 
CITRUS AvURANTIUM va7. JAPONICA. 
Cultivated in China and Japan. The Kumquat. 
Nat. Ord. Rutracem.—Tribe AURANTIER. 
Genus Citrus, Linn. ; (Benth. § Hook.f. Gen. Pl., v. i. p. 805). 
a -- 
Citrus Aurantium var. japonica ; fruticosa, spinosa v. inermis, ramis angu- 
latis, petiolis cuneato-alatis v, lineari-cuneatis, foliis‘elliptico- v. oblongo- 
lanceolatis obtuse acuminatis apices versus crenulatis, floribus axillaribus 
solitariis fasciculatisve albis, fructibus globosis v. ellipsoideo-oblongis 
4—6-locularibus, cortice granulato. 
Cirrus japonica, Thunb. Flor. Japan., 292 ; Ic.t.15; DC. Prodr., vol. i. 540 ; 
Sieb. § Zuce. Fl. Jap., vol. i. p. 35, t. 15; Fortune in Hort. Soc, Journ., 
NS. vol. ii. p. 46; Gard. Chron. 1874, 336, cum ic, xylog. ; Mig. Prolus. 
Fl. Jap. p. 15. 
C. Margarita, Zour. Fl. Coch., p. 570; DC. l.c. 
Kinkan, Kempf. Amen. Ezot., vol. v. p. 801. | 
Subvar. inermis.—C. inermis, Roxb. Fl. Ind.,'vol. iii. p. 393, C. madurensis, 
Lour. Fl. Coch., 570; DC. Prodr., 1.c.; Rumph. Herb. Amb., vol. ii. 
p- 110, t. xxx. 
This well-known ingredient in Chinese sweetmeats has 
never previously been figured from cultivated specimens in 
Europe, though long known from Kempfer's description and 
plate. According to Siebold, it is nowhere found wild in 
Japan ; this author says that, in common with all other spe- 
cies and varieties of Citrus, it has been introduced into the 
Island from China or India; also that it is extensively culti- 
vated under two varieties, one with globose, the other with 
oval fruit, which latter is rare. He adds, that the agreeable 
acid of the juice, flavoured by the aroma of the rind, renders 
the fruit very pleasant, but that it yields only a transient re- 
freshment, for it leaves a burning after-taste in the mouth. 
A magnificent fruiting specimen of this interesting shrub 
was exhibited by Mr. Bateman at the Horticultural Society 
in 1867, from which the accompanying drawing was taken. 
It belonged to the unarmed variety, and is far more luxuriant, 
both as to foliage and fruit, than the dried specimen, or those 
OCTOBER Ist, 1874. 
