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CITRUS AURANTIUM. ORANGE -TREE. 
SYNONYM J. Aurantium * hifpalenfe. Pharm. Lond. &f Edinh. 
Malus Arantia major. Bauh. Pin. p. 436. Malus Aurantia. 
Gerard. Emac.fi. 1463. Rait Hiji. p. 1658. Aurantium vulgare. 
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Ferrar. Hefp. p. 377. t. 369. Malus Aurantia vulgaris. Park, 
Theat.p. 1508. Ic. Miller Illujl. <3 Regnault Botanique y L'Oranger 
Malus Arantia maj or. Bauh. I.e. Seville rang e-Tr e e. 
is Malus Arantia, cortice dulci cduli. Bauh. I. c. China Orange-Tree, 
Clafs Polyadelphia. Ord. Icofandria. Lin. Gen. Plan!. 901 
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Elf. Gen. Ch. Gal. 5-fidus. Petala 5, oblonga.. Anther a 20, fila- 
mentis connatis in varia corpora, Bacca 9-locularis. 
Sp. Ch. C. petiolis alatis, foliis acuminatis 
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THIS handfome evergreen rifes feveral feet in height, fe 
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rF many branches, and covered with a greyifh bark : the leaves are 
ly elliptical, pointed, fmooth, entire, of a mining green colour, 
and ftand upon ftrong winged footftalks : the flowers appear d 
the whole fummer, and are large, white, and arife from the fmaller 
branches upon fimple and branched peduncles : the calyx is faucer- 
ihaped, and cut at the brim into live fmall pointed teeth : the petals 
are five, oblong, white, concave, and befet with fmall glands : the 
filaments are about twenty, united at the bafe in three or more diftinct 
portions, and furniuied with yellow antherse, placed vertically : the 
men is roundifh, fupporting a cylindrical ftyle, terminated 
globular ftigma : the fruit is fo well known, as not to require our 
defcription of it here. 
This tree, according: to Mr. Alton/ is a native of India; but it has 
been long cultivated in the warmer parts of Europe, and the fru 
* Aurantium has been fuppofed by fome to be derived ab aureo colore corticis fruCtusj 
by others, Arantium, ab oppido Achaiae. See C B. I. c. Alio Ray I. c. 
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