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many-celled ; ovules 4-8 in each cell, 2-seriate ; style deciduous ; stigma 

 capitate. Berry globose or oblong, fleshy, many-celled ; septa mem- 

 branous ; cells few-seeded, filled with horizontal or fusiform cellules 

 replete with juice. Seeds horizontal or pendulous; testa coriaceous or 

 membranous ; embryos sometimes 2 or more in one seed ; cotyledons 

 plano-convex, often unequal ; radicle small, superior. — Distrib. Tropical 

 Asia, 5 species ; Australia, 2 species. 



Young shoots and. leaves glabrous ; transverse vesicles of pulp 

 concrete. 



Young shoots purple ; petals tinged with red ; flovs^ers 



often unisexual ; fruit often niammillate at the apex... I. C. meclica. 

 Young shoots greenish-white; petals white; flowers bi- 

 sexual; fruit not mammillate 2. C. Aurantium. 



Young shoots and underside of leaves pubescent ; transverse 



vesicles of pulp distinct 3. C. decumana. 



1. Citrus medica, Linn. 8p. PL (1753) p. 782. A shrub or small 

 tree flowering and fruiting almost the whole year ; young shoots 

 glabrous, purple. Leaves 1-foliolate ; petioles naked or winged ; leaflets 

 3-6 in. long, elliptic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, usually obtuse, crenate- 

 serrate, base acute. Flowers white, usually tinged with red, small or 

 medium sized, often unisexual, 5-10 in a raceme. Stamens 20-40. 

 Fruit globose or oblong, often mammillate at the apex, usually yellow 

 when ripe ; rind thick or thin. El. B. I. v. 1, p. 514 ; Brandis, For. Fl. 

 p. 51 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 33; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1897) p. 267 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 349. 



Cultivated throughout the Presidency ; said to be wild on the Western Ghats. 

 Graham (Cat. Bo. PI. p. 25) mentions the occurrence of a plant called by the natives 

 Malunga, apparently wild near Par and on the level part of the Rotunda Ghat 

 (below Mahableshwar), which, however, Dahcli Jj- Gibson (Bo. Fl. Suppl. p. 13) failed 

 to find. Mr. Nairne (Flowering Plants of W. India, p. 48) mentions that he had 

 himself found the plant on the Parpoli Ghat (Wari Country). 



The varieties of Citrus medica cultivated in the Bombay Presidency 

 are the following : — 



Var. 1. Citrus medica proper. The Citron. Fruit large, oblong, 

 obovoid or somewhat irregularly shaped : mammilla obtuse; rind thick, 

 very aromatic; pulp scanty, subacid. Fl. B. J. v. 1, p. 514; Brandis, 

 .For. Fl. p. 52. Citrus medica, lAnw. ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 13. — 

 Veek. Malidlungi. 



Var. 2. Limonum. The Lemon. Petiole margined or winged. 

 Fruit ovoid, yellow, mammillate ; rind thin ; pulp abundant, very acid. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 1, p. 515 ; Brandis, For. Fl. p. 52. Citrus Limonum, Risso, 

 in Ann. Mus. Par. v. 20, p. 201 ; Grab. Cat. p. 25 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Suppl. p. 13. 



Var. 3. ncida. The Sour Lime of India. Leaflets elliptic-oblong. 

 Eacemes short ; flowers small ; petals usually 4. Fruit usually small, 

 globose or ovoid ; rind thick or thin ; pulp pale, very acid. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 1, p. 515 ; Brandis, For. Fl. p. 52. ? Citrus Bergamia, Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Suppl. p. 13. — Vern. Limbu. Very widely cultivated. 



Var. 4. Limetta. The Sweet Lime of India. Fruit globose, 3-5 in. 

 in diam. ; rind thin, smooth, adhering to the pulp ; juice abundant, 



