310 BOTANICON SINICUM, 
under the name of i resembles much the common sweet 
orange of Southern Europe. [Compare P., XXX, 26, pe 
ka, and Ch., XXXII, 5.] © : 
The Chinese have also other peculiar chatioeses to designate 
rarious sorts of oranges. The #f ch‘eng, likewise brought 
to Peking from the South, especially from Fuchou m 
Fukien, is an excellent orange, generally of large size, with Z 
a thin rind adhering closely to the pulp. The lobes of the 
pulp (carpels) do not separate. Europeans call this the 
coolie-orange, while the name of mandarin-orange or loose-_ 
jacket is applied to the smaller, sweet orange. Its skin when 
ripe is of a cinnabar red colour and adheres to the pulp” 
by a few loose fibres. The lobes separate easily. At Peking 
it is called #£ fH hung kat or MRR huo ka (red or fire 
orange), but its book name is #f kan, a character derived 
from Hf kan, sweet. P. says it is very sweet and is” 
produced especially in the Southern Provinces. This is the 
Citrus nobilis of Lourngtro. Loureiro [ Flora cochin., 569. 
is mistaken, it seems, with respect to the Chinese names 0 
the oranges, for he states that C. nobilis in Chinese is tsem 
ean, and C. aurantium, can xu. 
See regarding ch‘eng and kan, P.. XXX, 34 = 1 
Ch., XXXI, 8, 7. . 
Aman. exot., 801:—f§ kitz, vulgo tatz banna. Malus” 
-Limonia, fructu rotundo parvo,. mican: dicto, medulla vinos 
saporis, Sresonp [ Syn. plant. acon. jap., B09]. refers the 
_dapanese names tatsibana and mican to Citrus nobilis. — 
Amen. exot., 800:—#f kan, vulgo kummi fo. ve ‘Malus 
Aurantia, folio majusculo, fructu medioeri to mican dicto. 
Compare also the drawings of various sorts of oranges 
under the above Chinese names in the Phon zo [LXV, 1-13] 
B:; 226, family #f, with good figure. Jap., 615. 
E., 227-229, family KG. with figure of a Citrus and 12 7, 
