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CITRUS AURANTIUM. . ORANGE-TREE. 
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SYNONYMA. Aurantium*hispalense. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. 
Malus Arantia major. Bauh, Pin. p. 436. Malus Aurantia. 
Gerard. Einac. p. 1463. Raii Hist. p. 1658. Aurantium vulgare. 
Ferrar, Hesp. p. 377. t. 369. Malus Aurantia vulgaris. Park. 
Theat. p. 1508. Ic. Miller Iilust. § Regnault Botanique, L’Oranger. 
@ Malus Arantia major. Bauh. 1. c. Seville Orange Tree. 
@ Malus Arantia, cortice dulci eduli. Bauh.l.c.. China Orange-Tree. 
Class Polyadelphia. Ord. Icosandria. Lin. Gen. Plant. 901. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-fidus. ~ Petala 5, oblonga. Anthere 20, 
_ filamentis connatis in varia corpora. Bacca 9-locularis. — 
Sp. Ch. C. petiolis alatis, foliis acuminatis. 
THIS handsome evergreen rises several feet in height, sending 
off many branches, and covered with a greyish bark: the leaves 
are nearly elliptical, pointed, smooth, entire, of a shining green 
colour, and stand upon strong winged footstalks: the flowers 
appear during the whole sumn er, and are large, white, and arise 
from the smaller branches upon. simple aud branched peduncles : 
the calyx is saucer-shaped, and cut at the brim into five small 
pointed teeth: the petals are five, oblong; white, concave, and 
beset with small glands: the filaments are about twenty, united 
at the base in three or more distinct portions, and furnished with 
yellow anthere, placed vertically: the germen is roundish, sup- 
porting a cylindrical style, terminated by a globular stigma: the 
‘fruit is so well known, as not to requite our Boece of it 
here. | 
* Aurantium has been supposed by some to be derived ab aureo colore corticis 
fructus; by others, Arantium, ab oppido Achaia. See €. B.l.c, Also Ray/.c. 
