AURANTIACEiE. 



Branches armed with simple spines. Leaflets 5-7, small, obovate, 

 smooth. When young very thin, when old firm, and almost coriaceous, 

 common petiole with a narrow margin, jointed. Calyx teeth pink ; 

 petals paler; anthers crimson. Fruit fleshy, extremely acid before 

 maturity, when ripe filled with dark brown agreeable subacid pulp, 

 large, spheroidal, rugged, often warted externally, containing 5 parcels 

 of roundish-oblong, flat, woolly seeds adhering to the branched pla- 

 centae, by means of long cords. — Both leaves and flowers exhale a 

 powerful odour of Anise. 



^GLE. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx 4-5-toothed. Petals 4-5, 

 spreading. Stamens 30-40 ; filaments distinct : anthers linear- 

 oblong. Ovary 8-15-celled: ovules numerous in each cell; 

 style very short and thick ; stigma capitate. Fruit baccate, with 

 a hard rind, 8-15-celled: cells 6-10-seeded. Seed-coat woolly, 

 covered over with a slimy liquid. — Trees with simple spines. 

 Leaves pinnate : leaflets 3, occasionally but very seldom 5, 

 oblong or broad-lanceolate, crenulated, inconspicuously dotted, 

 unequal, the terminal one the largest. Peduncles axillary, few- 

 flowered : pedicels long. Flowers large. W. and A. 



315. M. Marmelos Corr. in Linn, trans, v. 222. Roxb. corom. 

 ii. t. 143. /. ind. ii. 579. DC. prodr. i. 538. W. and A. 

 i. 96. — Feronia pellucida Roth. nov. sp. p. 384. DC. prodr. 

 i. 538. Crataeva Marmelos Linn. sp. pi. 637. (Rheede iii. t. 37. 

 Rumph. i. t. 81.) — All parts of the East Indies. (Bilva or 

 Mahura As. res.) 



Trunk pretty erect. Bark ash-coloured. Branches few and irregular. 

 Thorns axillary, in pairs, single, or none, very sharp and strong. Leaves 

 ternate. Leaflets oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, attenuated to a bent 

 point, crenulate, differing much in size, but the exterior one is always 

 the largest. Panicles small, terminal, and axillary. Flowers large and 

 white "hermaphrodite. Calyx 4- or 5-toothed. Petals 4-5. Filaments 

 about 40, short. Anthers linear, erect. Berry large, spheroidal, 

 smooth, with a hard shell, and 10-15 cells, which contain besides the 

 seeds, a large quantity of a tenacious transparent gluten, which on dry- 

 ing becomes very hard, but continues transparent ; when fresh it may 

 be drawn out into threads of 1 or 2 yards in length, and so fine as to 

 be scarcely perceptible to the naked eye, before it breaks. Seeds from 

 6 to 10 in each cell, oblong, a little compressed, woolly, attached to the 

 inner angle of their cell. — Fruit nutritious, warm, cathartic, delicious. 

 Its aperient and detersive quality, and efficacy in removing habitual 

 costiveness have been proved by constant experience. Root, bark, and 

 leaves reckoned refrigerants by the Malabar physicians. 



CITRUS. 



Flowers usually in a quinary proportion. Calyx urceolate, 

 3-5-cleft. Petals 5-8. Stamens 20-60 : filaments compressed 

 at the base, and there more or less united and polyadelphous : 



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