516 xxxiii. RUTACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Citrus. 



Botanic Gardens, without flower or fruit, and of which I have se^n dried specimens ; as 

 I have also flowering ones from the Mauritius Gardens, all named C 1 . fli/xtrix. Kurz 

 has, no doubt rightly, identified Rumph's figures quoted above \vidi this plant. Distin- 

 guished from C. Aurantium by the epinous branchlels, large petioles, and small How* rs 

 which are 4-petalous. The fruit varies from the size of a walnut to that of a small 

 apple, it has a very thick more or less tubercled rind and insipid or acid pulp. Kurz, 

 probably by a misprint, describes the flowers as 4-5-androus, Miquel says 24-androus ; 

 I find in Mauritius specimens about 15 stamens. 



4. C. decumana, Linn.; young shoots pubescent, leaflet large ovate- 

 oblong frequently emargiuate pubescent beneath, petiole broadly winged, 

 flowers large white, stamens 10-^4, fruit large pale globose or pyrifonn, 

 rind thick, pulp pale sweet or acrid. Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 393 ; iJalz. <0 6rV6x. 

 Bomb. Fl. tiiipi>l. 12 ; I }'//. Cat. 6388. 



Commonly cultivated in INDIA. A native of the Malayan and Polynesian Islands. 



A tree, 30-40 ft. Leaflets 6-9 in. Fruit often very large, pulp yellow pink or 

 crimson, sweet or acrid, vesicles distinct. Shaddock, Puim-lo, rompeoBOM. 



22. FERONIA, Gaertn. 



A spinous tree. Leave* alternate, imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite, sub- 

 sessile, quite entire ; petiole winged or not. Flntvrrs in terminal or lateral 

 loose panicles or racemes, polygamous, Cnlii.i- small. Hat, .">-toothed, deri- 

 duous. /'- /'/As- ">, rarely 4-6, spreading, imbricate. St<nn'-n* lo 1^, a lew 

 sometimes imperfect, inserted around a short disk, filaments dilated, sides 

 and front villoiis, tip subulate; anthers linear oblmu. CA""/y/ oblong, 

 5-6-celled, at length 1-celled : style 0, stigma oblong fusiform deciduous ; 

 ovules ex, crowded in many scries upon ")-(! at length parietal placentas. 

 large, globose, 1-celled, co-seeded, bark woody ron-h. Seecfo buried 

 in pulp, ublon.ir, compressed; cotyledons thick, fleshy, radicle pointing 

 away from the liilum. 



1. T. Elephantum, ' ','/'. Cor. PL t. 141 ; Flr. I ml. ii. 411 ; 



A. Proc : Dab. <( rv/Ax. J!,,,*l>. Fl. 30 ; Wail. 



Cat. li.J.so ; Iti'tiu'lin For. Fi<>r. :>(). Cratieva Vallang;i, Kn-ni'j mss. 



Throughout India, in dry situations, frum the I'AN.IAH eastward and soutlnvard to 

 CKYI.ON ; wild or cultivated, asren.ling to IfdK) ft. in the W. Himalayas. 



A small deciduous glabrous trt-e, head ovuid. .Leaves smelling of atdseed ; sjiines 

 strung straight axillary. Lea/It t* 5-7, cnncate or obovate, tij> eR-nate. Flowers !, in. 

 diam., dull-red, <$ and 9 often in the same panicle; peduncle and pedicels pul>' 

 Fi-uit '11, in. diam., pulp edible. The Elephant or Wood-apple. 



. 



Spinous trees. Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate ; leaflets membranous, sub- 

 crenulate. Flowers large, white, in axillary panicles. ( >////./ small, 

 4-5-topthed, deciduous. Petals 4-5, spreading, imbricate. >S'/.////. //.< nume- 

 rous, inserted round an inconspicuous disk, filaments short subulate ; 

 anthers elongate, erect. Ovary ovoid, axis broad, cells 8-20, peripheral ; 

 style short, stigma capitate oblong or fusiform deciduous, ovules numerous 

 2-seriate. Fruit large, globose, ovoid or reniform, 8-15-celled ; cells many- 

 seeded, rind woody. Seeds numerous, in aromatic pulp, oblong, com- 

 pressed, testa woolly and mucous. DISTEIB. Species 2-3, tropical Asiatic 

 and African. 



:3rm3los, Correct; JRoxl. Cor. PI. t. 143; Fl. Ind. ii. 579; 

 \Y. ci A. Prodr. 90; Wight le. t. 16 ; Btddvnie Fl. Sylv. t. 161 ; Wall. Cat. 



