_ Limonia. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 379 
with two ovula in each, attached to the axis. Style length 
of the nectary. Stigma three or four-lobed. Berry the 
size of a nutmeg, very much like a lime (hence the Telinga 
name, wild lime) generally four-celled, Seeds generally 
solitary, that is one in each cell. 
The flowers of the above described plant agree with 
those of Melia, Trichilia, Turraea, and Swietenia ; their 
pericarps must be depended on to distinguish the genera. 
3. L. citrifolia. R. 
Shrubby ; armed with recurved spines. Leaves simple, 
elliptically oval, entire, obtusely acuminate. Flowers 
axillary. Berries ovate, few-seeded. 
Seay very ramous, rigid, well-armed shrub, of five or six 
feet in height, a native of the forests of Chittagong, and 
with the other armed species, well adapted for fences, 
Flowering time the hot season. ; 
Young shoots polished. Thorns axillary, solitary, 
short, somewhat recurved. Leaves alternate, round-pe- 
tioled, ‘elliptic, with an obtuse, somewhat lengthened 
point, entire, smooth, but marked with numerous pellucid 
points, as in many Aurantia ; from four to five inches 
long, and from two to three broad. Stipules none, Flow- 
ers small, white, short-peduncled, axillary. Bractes mi-_ 
nute, about the insertion of the peduncles, and on them, 
Calyx five-toothed, having its substance marked with pel- 
lucid points. Petals five, oblong, smooth. Filaments ten, 
distinct, short, inserted round the base of the germ, An- 
thers linear, erect. Germ ovate-oblong, five-grooved, on 
the outside five-celled, each cell containing two ovula at- 
tached to the axis. Style thick and short. Stigma sub-pel- 
tate. Berry ovate, of the colour and appearance of a lime, 
€ven to the little green cells in the cortex, Seeds from one 
to four, separated by some few small fibres only, which 
are scarcely to be traced when dry, oblong, having the 
Sides agreeing in shape with the number in the ber . In- 
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