Fig. 10. Kumquat Flowers 

 nearly natural size. 



CHAPTER X. 

 THE K U M Q U A T S. 



Quite a number of common 

 names have been given for mis 

 fruit. Thunberg gives the com- 

 mon name, kinkan. Lourerio 

 gives the common names Kin 

 Kuit, Kin and Kuit Xu for the 

 round fruit and Chu tsu and 

 Ohantu for the oblong form. 

 Kaempfer gives the common 

 names Kin Kan and Fime Tats 

 banna, while Roxburgh uses 

 the common name, kumquat. 

 Siebold and Zuccarina, in their 

 Flora of Japan, page 35, 1826, 

 give the common names kin kan 

 or kin kit to the round variety, 

 while to the elliptical, or oblong 

 one, the name too kin kan is 

 given. It might be added that 

 Siebold and Zuccarina give a 

 better illustration of this fruit 

 than has been published in any 

 other work. The commonly ac- 

 cepted name for this fruit 

 throughout the United States 

 is kumquat, and this appears 

 to be the common name in India. 

 Kumquat, sometimes spelled 

 "comquot," "Kum Quat" and 

 "Cumquot," is a Chinese word, 

 meaning "gold orange'' and the 

 Japanese equivalent is "kin 

 kan." 



