Citrus.] RUTACE.E. 161 



8-20-celled, the cells peripheral round a thick axis ; style short ; 

 stigma oblong, fusiform, deciduous ; ovules numerous, 2-seriate 

 in each cell. Fruit a large, globose or ovoid, 8-15-celled, berry, 

 the cells many-seeded, the rind smooth, woody. Seeds numerous, 

 imbedded in aromatic pulp, oblong, compressed; albumen ; 

 cotyledons thick, fleshy. 



AEGLE MARMELOS, Corr. ; F. B. I. i. 516 ; W. & A. 96 ; Wt. Ic. 

 t. 16; Koxb. Cor. PL ii. t. 143 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 161. 



N. Circars, Deccan and Carnatic, in dry forests ; W. Coast, 

 run wild ; often cultivated, The Bael tree. 

 A small deciduous thorny tree, the leaves usually glabrous, 

 but grey-pubescent in the more arid localities. Wood 

 yellowish-white, hard. The fruit is valued for its aromatic 

 pulp and its medicinal use. Vern. Hind. Bel ; Ur. Baelo ; 

 Tel. Maredu ; Tarn. Vilva ; Mai. Kovalam. 



19. Citrus, Linn. 



Evergreen shrubs or trees, usually armed with spines. Leaves 

 alternate, 1-foliolate, coriaceous ; petiole often winged ; leaflets 

 entire or crenulate ; stipules 0. Flowers axillary, solitary 

 fascicled or in small cymes. Calyx cupular or urceolate, 3-5- 

 lobed. Petals 4-8, linear-oblong, thick, imbricate. Disk large, 

 cupular or annular. Stamens numerous (20-60), inserted round 

 the disk ; filaments irregularly polyadelphous, compressed at the 

 base ; anthers oblong. Ovary many-celled ; style stout, decidu- 

 ous ; stigma capitate ; ovules 4-8 in each cell, 2-seriate. Fruit 

 a large berry, oblong or globose, fleshy, many-celled ; septa mem- 

 branous ; cells few- seeded and filled with transverse fusiform cells 

 filled with juice, the rind leathery. Seeds horizontal or pendulous ; 

 testa coriaceous or membranous ; albumen ; cotyledons plano- 

 convex, often unequal ; radicle small, superior. 

 CITRUS MEDICA, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 514. 



N. Circars, in Ganjam and Vizagapatam up to 3,000 ft., usually 

 in thickets along streams ; W. Ghats of Coorg, Malabar, Nil- 

 giris and N. Travancore up to 4,000 ft. 



A small tree with elliptic-oblong obtuse crenulate leaflets, 

 apparently quite wild. There are 4 cultivated varieties of this 

 species : (1) medica proper, ,the Citron ; (2) Limonum, the 

 Lemon ; (3) acida, the sour Lime ; and (4) Limetta, the 



sweet Lime. 



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