9() CITRUS FRUITS AND THEIR CULTURE. 



becoming darker with age; leaves elliptic-oval, glossy green in 

 color, margin slightly indented; petioles margined; flowers small, 

 produced in axillary clusters of three to ten; calyx small, four 

 to five pointed; corolla white on both inner and outer surfaces, 

 petals four to five, oblong, fleshy; stamens small, twenty to 

 twenty-five, united in a number of groups; ovary about ten loc- 

 uled; fruit rounded oblong or oblong, frequently mammilate, 

 light yellow, rind thin, pulp greenish, acid; juice sacks small, 

 slender, pointed; seeds small, oval, pointed. Native of India and 

 southeastern Asia. 



