2 28 RutaceCE. [Feroma^, 



spines |-| in. long; 1. large, 2^-4 in., broadly oblong- or 

 obovate-oval, somewhat tapering at base, obtuse or rounded 

 at apex, entire or shallovvly crenate, undulate, glabrous^ 

 coriaceous, pellucid-punctate, veins very obscure; fl. numerous, 

 ^ in., in erect, glabrous panicles i-2i in. long; cal. small, 

 4-5-lobed, lobes acute ; pet. 4 or 5, narrowly oval, spreading 

 or recurved, soon falling ; stam. 8 or 10, fil. slender, quite 

 distinct, anth. narrowly oblong ; ov. small, glabrous, on a. 

 short gynophore, 4-5-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell, style 

 long, stout, thickened upwards ; berry about i in., globular, 

 with thick rind, 4- or 5-celled, each cell with i (or 2) globose 

 seeds imbedded in glutinous mucilage. 



Low country, chiefly in the dry region ; rather common. Batticaloa ;• 

 Jaftna; Panadure (Moon). Fl. April; white, fragrant. 



Also in Southern India. 



There are specimens from Van Royen in Mus. Brit., probably collected 

 by Hermann. 



The fruit is just like a small orange. Wood moderately heavy, rather 

 hard, close-grained, smooth, pale yellow. 



Citrus Hystrix, DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 97 (1813). To this apparently 

 belongs the ' Kudalu-dehi ' or ' Lima-dehi ' of the Sinhalese, a tubercled 

 Lime, commonly grown in native gardens and semi-wild (or possibly native) 

 in the east of Ceylon. It is C. Fapeda, Miq. {Papeda Rumphii^ Hassk.), 

 and is found in Burma and Khasia, and in Sumatra and other islands of 

 the Malay Archipelago, whence it may have been introduced to Ceylon. 

 It is well figured in Rumph. Herb. Amboin. ii. tt. 26, f. i, and 27; and 

 there is a coloured plate with the name C. tubcroides in Bennett's 

 ' Rare Fruits of Ceylon.' Ceylon specimens from Koenig are in Brit. 

 Mus. This is not improbably the original form of the now universally 

 cultivated Lime, C. Liino?ielius, Hassk. (see also Bonavia in Journ. Linn.. 

 Soc. x.xii. 213). 



13. FEROITIA,'^ Correa. 



A small tree, with straight axillary spines ; 1. pinnate ;. 

 fl. polygamous, in axillary panicles; cal. small, 5 -toothed ; 

 pet. 5, imbricate; stam. 7-12, equal, distinct, fil. very short, 

 anth. large, oblong ; ov. on a short disk, 5-celled (spuriously 

 I -celled), with very numerous ovules on the dissepiments; 

 fruit large, globose, indehiscent, i -celled, with many seeds 

 immersed in pulp. — Monotypic. 



r. elephantum, Correa in Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 224 (1800). Diwul, 

 6*. Vila, Vilatti, Mayladikkuruntu, T. 



Herm. Mus. 13, 17. Fl. Zeyl. n. 175. Limonia acidissima, L. (pro- 

 max. parte) non Auct. Moon Cat. J2)- Thw. Enum. 48. C. P. 1205. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 516. Wight, Ic. t. 15. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 121. 



* One of the deities to whom the ancients dedicated forests. 



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