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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. 



A 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 Aurantice ; 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. Pe/a/s five, oblong, smooth. Filaments len, 

 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 ovM/a at- 

 tached to the axis. Style thick and short. Stigma sub-pel- 

 tate. Berry ovate, of the colour and appearance of a lime, 

 even 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 berry. Jn- 



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