Citrus. ] Rutacez. 39 
Pace 228.— 
Citrus Linn. 
Flowers normally 4-petalled, purplish; fruit 
small; rind closely adhering, green or 
greenish-yellow; seeds white when cut; 
shrubs or small trees: 
Peticle usually as large as, or larger 
than the leaf-blade; fruit with ter- | 
minal nipple; rind thick, warted 2 la ee a vsbrae. 
Petiole much smaller than the leaf- 
blade; rind thin, smooth 
Flowers normally 5-petalled : 
Rind closely adhering : 
Seeds white when cut; robust trees: 
Fruits ellipsoid; more or less fur- 
rowed and warted; lemon yellow: 
Petiole broadly margined : 
Petiole naked or scarcely mar- 
N 
. aurantifolia, 
3. C. megaloxylocarpa. 
gined : 
Rind _ thick 3 ‘ : ; 4. €. medica, 
Rind thin : : : . 5. C. Limonium. 
Fruit globose or pyriform, smooth: 
Fruit pale lemon yellow or pale 
green: (sometimes flushed with 
red) 4-10 in. diam.; petioles 
usually broadly winged : . 6. C. maxima. 
Fruit orange coloured; 2-4 in. 
diam. : 
Fruit permanently sour; spines 
usually large; petioles usually 
winged : : : ; : 
Fruit ultimately sweet; spines 
very small; petioles usually 
margined . ; : ; ; 
Seeds green when cut; shrub; fruit 
globose or pyriform, greenish-yellow 
or orange-red 3-2 in. diam., sour; 
rind thin. : F : ‘ , 
Rind loosely adhering; seeds green when 
cut; slender trees; fruit 2-34 in. diam. 
Fruit depressed globose. ; . 10. C. crenatifolia. 
Fruit pyriform . ; : ; » Et, Gy papillarns. 
1. C. nystrix DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. p. 97 (1813); Trimen FI. 
Ceyl. I, p. 228 (1893); Lush. in Ind. For. XXXVI, p. 341 (1910). C. 
acida 8 Moon Cat. p. 56 (1824). C. tuberoides J. W. Bennett Rare 
Fruits of Ceylon. t. (1842). 
Bonavia Oranges and Lemon t. CCXXV; Rumph. Herb. Amb. IJ, 
201. 14,-27. 
Kudalu-dehi, Lima, Gada-dehi, S. Leech or Caffre 
Lime. 
Not eaten but used for washing the hair and rubbing on the legs 
to keep off leeches. 
Perhaps native. 
2. C. AURANTIFOLIA Swingle in Journ. Wash. Acad. Sc. III, p. 465 
Part I. 
7. C. Aurantium. 
8. C. sinensis. 
g. C. japonica. 
