figured by Siebold and Zuccarini. As regards the cultivation 
of the Kumquat, Mr. Fortune, who introduced it, says in his 
paper published in the Journal of the Horticultural Society, 
quoted above, that it requires in summer plenty of water 
at a temperature of 80° to 100°, and a high atmospheric heat 
continued into autumn ; whilst in winter it should be kept cool 
and rather dry, for it will then bear 10° and even 15° of frost. 
It succeeds well grafted on Limonia trifoliata. 
Drscr. A shrub or small tree, four to six feet high. Branch- 
lets green, glabrous, compressed, trigonous. Leaves biennial ; 
petiole one-third to one-half inch long, narrowly cuneate or 
almost linear; blade three to five inches long, elliptic or ob- 
long-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, obtuse, crenate above 
the middle. lowers one to three, axillary, fascicled, three- 
fourths of an inch to one inch in diameter, white ; peduncles 
glabrous. Calyx short, five-lobed, glabrous, green, segments 
broad. Petals oblong, subacute. Stamens twenty or fewer, 
irregularly connate into bundles. Dis/: thick. Ovary 4—6- 
celled. Fruit two-thirds to one inch in diameter, globose 
or shortly ellipsoid, bright orange-yellow, 4—6-celled; rind 
thick, minutely tuberculate; pulp watery, sweet and aci- 
dulous. Seeds few, like those of the common orange, but 
much smaller.—J/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx and Stamens—magnified; 2, transverse section of the fruit 
of the natural size. 
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