Liinoiiiai\ Riitaccce . 223,. 



I. Ii. alata, W.andA. Prod. 92 (1834). Tumpat-kurundu, S. 



L. Cninainouiii/u, Moon Cat. 35. Thw. Enuni. 45. C. P. 1191. 

 Fl. R. Ind. i. 508. Bedd. Fl. "Sylv. Anal. t. 7, f. 4 (flowers). Wight, 

 111. t. 41. 



A small tree, with straight, sharp, axillary spines often in 

 pairs, or spineless, bark thick, slightly rough, white ; 1. 3-folio- 

 late, petiole narrowly winged, glabrous, Iflts. sessile, oval or 

 obovate, tapering to base, obtuse, often emarginate, almost 

 entire, glabrous, shining, the terminal one largest ; fl. about 

 § in., on short ped., arranged in small, terminal and axillary 

 panicles ; cal.-segm. broadly ovate, obtuse, pubescent ; pet. 

 oblong, pubescent outside ; ov. 5 -celled, ovules 2 in each cell, 

 style longer than ov., stigma capitate ; berry globose, about 

 I in., rough with glands, seeds several. 



Dry country; common. Fl. May; white. 

 Also in Southern India. 



The leaves are lemon-scented when bruised, the citrus-like fruit is 

 very bitter. Wood very hea\y and hard, close-grained, smooth, yellow. 



2. Zi. crenulata, Roxb. Cor. PL i. 60 (1795). 



L. acidissima, Auct. plur. (non L.), Moon Cat. 35. Trim, in Journ. 

 Bot. xxvii. 162. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 507 (Z. acidissiiiia). Cor. PI. i. t. 86. 



A small, slender tree or large shrub, with rigid, flexuose 

 branches and sharp, straight, wood}- spines over \ in, long 

 from axils of fallen 1. ; 1. pinnate, 3-4 in., with 2 or 3 pair of 

 opposite Iflts. and a terminal one, petiole | in., narrowly 

 winged, rachis winged, broad, crenate, leaf-like between each 

 pair, Iflts. sessile, trapezoid-oval, obtuse, emarginate, crenate- 

 serrate, dotted with pellucid glands ; fl. not seen (4-merous, 

 ov.-cells with i ovule) ; berry globular, under \ in., smooth, 

 2-4-celled, 1-4-seeded. 



Dry country ; very rare. Observed, in fruit, in Jan., 1888, scattered 

 over the country about Bibileand Ekiriyankumbura, Uva. Moon includes 

 this name in his Cat., and gives Jaffna for locality. 



Also in several parts of Peninsular India. 



The small fruit is very acid and bitter. 



I have shown in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 142, that Linnteus' L. 

 acidissima was not this plant, but Feronia elepJiantiiin (which see). 

 He no doubt afterwards confused the two plants (as is shown by his 

 quotation of Hort. Malab. iv. t. 14, which represents the present species), 

 but his name cannot be retained for either. As it is the species on 

 which Liinonia., L. was founded, that genus strictly falls to the ground, 

 and, as the present plant forms the genus Hcsperctliusa, Roem., that name 

 ought perhaps to be maintained in its stead. 



