Order 27. Rutaccce. 49 



C. aurantium is the orange, ndrangi, in all its varieties : 

 C. decumand the pumelo, " pumplemoeses, which in the W. 

 Indies are called shaddocks." Cook's voyages. 



When the scientific cultivation of fruit is seriously taken up 

 in India, may we not hope that gardens of oranges will enliven 

 at least such districts as the cooler parts of the Konkan and the 

 eastern slopes of the Ghauts 1 It is true that Hooker says of 

 the Indian climate generally that, "being marked by one 

 season of excessive humidity, and the other of excessive 

 drought, it can never be favourable to the production either of 

 good European or tropical fruits. Hence there is not one of the 

 latter peculiar to the country, and perhaps but one which 

 arrives at full perfection, viz. the mango." Himalayan 

 Journals, Yet tolerable oranges are even now to be had. 



' ' He hangs in shades the orange bright, 



Like golden lamps in a dark night." A. Marvell. 



" What garden tree can rival the orange in beauty and 

 nobility ? . . . Every traveller who is happy enough to have seen 

 the lemon grove in the neighbourhood of Poros in the Peloponnesus, 

 the agrumi of Messina at the foot of Etna, and those of Eeggio on 

 the opposite coast of Calabria, the gardens of Sorrento, near Naples, 

 and the enchanting orange woods of Milis in the island of Sardinia, 

 thinks of them ever after with delight." Hehn. 



Triphasia trifoliata is a thorny shrub common in gardens, 

 China limbu, leaves trifoliate, berry oblong, size of a sloe. 



ORDER 28. SIMAEUBE^E. 



Trees or shrubs, leaves alternate mostly very large and 

 pinnate ; flowers usually unisexual, regular and small, calyx 

 3 to 5-lobed, petals 3 to 5, stamens as many, or twice as many 

 inserted at the base of the disk : styles 2 to 5. 



A small order said to differ from Eutacese mainly in having bitter 

 bark and leaves without oil glands. 



1. AILANTHUS. Large trees, leaves unequally pinnate, calyx 

 segments and petals 5, disk 10-lobed, stamens 10, but in 

 hermaphrodite flowers only 2 or 3, ovary deeply 2 to 5-lobed, 

 fruit of 1 to 5 one-seeded, winged nuts. 



2. BALANITES. Leaves of two leaflets, calyx and segments 

 and petals 5, disk thick conical, stamens 10, ovary entire, fruit 

 a large fleshy oily drupe. 



