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ventive dose is 30-40" grams a day. Its curative dose is 100- 

 150 grams a day. To preserve the lime-juice it was bottled 

 with a layer of oil, which, floating on the surface kept it from 

 contact with the air ; but this process gave it a bad taste as did 

 also the addition of sulphate of calcium, and at present the 

 English add, to each liter of juice, 60 grams of alcohol, which 

 preserves it perfectly. Fonssagrives says that the antiscorbutic 

 action of lemon juice is due rather to the vegetable juice itself 

 than to the citric acid which it contains. 



Botanical Description. — A most familiar tree 11° or 

 more high, trunk with solitary thorns. Leaves ovate, obtuse, 

 acute-toothed, the petiole bearing serrate wings. Calyx 4-6- 

 toothed. Corolla, 4 thick petals. Filaments 10-25 on the 

 receptacle, some joined and bearing 2-3 anthers. Fruit thin- 

 skinned, globular, about V in diameter ; the rind adheres 

 closely to the pulp. 



(This fruit closely resembles, if it is not identical with the 

 lime fruit, C. Limetta, or C. Bergamia, Bisso, though Gray 

 states that the leaf of the latter has a wingless petiole. — J. B. T.) 



Habitat. — Common to all parts of the islands. 



Citrus Bigaradia, Hook. f. (C. vulgaris, Risso ; C. aurantium, 



Blanco.) 



Nom. Vulg. — Naranjas del pais, Sp.; Kahel, Kahil, Tag.; 

 Native Orange, Eng. 



Uses. — The rind of the cagel is the so-called bitter orange 

 peel, the best of which comes from Curacao and Barbadoes. 

 It is tonic and is used in decoction and in syrup. The infusion 

 of the leaves, 5-10 grams to the liter, is useful as a sedative 

 and diaphoretic in hysterical and nervous attacks ; the infusion 

 of the flowers is similarly used. When distilled the flowers 

 yield a very sweet essential oil called neroli, which is used as a 

 perfume only. 



Botanical Description. — A tree 15-20° high, trunk 





