528 ORD. XXVIU. Pomacce. 
CITRUS MEDICA. “LEMON-TREE., 
SYNONYMA. Limon. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Malus medica. 
Bauh. Pin. p. 435. Gerard. Emac. p. 1462. Malum citreum 
vulgare. Ferrar. Hesp. p. 56.t. 69. Malus citria sive medica. 
Raii Hist. p. 1654. Park. Theat. p. 1506... Le Citronier. 
Regnault. Botanique. Mrrcz pion Theophrast.& Dioscor. 6 Malus 
Limonia acida. Bauh. Pin. p. 436.  Lime-Tree. 
Class Polyadelphia. Ord. Icosandria. _ Lin. Gen. Plant. 901. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-fidus. Petala 5, oblonga. Antherw 20, — 
filamentis connatis in varia corpora. Bacca 9-locularis. 
Sp. Ch. C. petiolis linearibus. 
THIS tree is equally beautiful as that of the orange, which it — 
much resembles, so that at a little distance they are not easily to 
be distinguished: the leaves however of the Lemon-tree are com- 
monly larger, slightly indented at the edges, and are without 
those winged appendages at the footstalks, which constitute the 
specific character of the orange: the flowers, which appear most 
part of the summer, are large, and the outer side of the petals 
have usually a purplish tinge: the other parts of inflorescence 
resemble those of the orange: the fruit has a prominent apex, 
externally of a pale yellow or straw-colour, internally divided 
into nine cells, containing an extremely acid juice. 
This tree is a native of the upper parts of Asia, from whence 
it was brought to Greece, and afterwards by Paladius to Italy.* 
Although it has been doubted whether Paladius was really the 
* Etenim Citrus apud Medos et Persas imprimis frequens, dein Paladii diligentia 
in Italiam translata fuit: postea in Hispania in usum devenit, ut nemora & campos 
eccuparit. DBauh, Pin. p. 435. 
