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33. Citrus aurantium dulcis. — Sweet Oranges. 

 amara. — Seville Oranges. 



Both these are cultivated in all the West India Islands, as 

 well as in Spain and Portugal. These ascescent fruits have 

 long been esteemed in medicine, and need not here be insisted 

 on. In the warm countries ulcers soon become very foul and 

 offensive. I have long been of opinion that the habit has no- 

 thing to do in many such cases, but that both the ulcer and 

 the fomes of it are merely local. I have applied the pulp of 

 roasted oranges to the sores as a poultice, and observed al- 

 ways, that, in twenty-four hours, the foetor of such ulcers was 

 corrected and removed, and that the ulcers soon were dis- 

 posed to heal. The same application was continued till a 

 cure was completed. 



34. Citrus decujiana. — Shaddock. 



This fruit was so called from a Captain Shaddock, who 

 first brought it from the East Indies to Barbadoes. 



Shaddocks are a most beautiful fruit, about five times as 

 large as oranges, and shaped like a pear. They have a most 

 agreeably sweet and bitter taste, and are much esteemed in 

 warm countries. 



35. Citrus decumana, (varietas). — The Forbidden Fruit. 



This is smaller than the shaddock, and of a round figure. 

 However beautiful to the eye, they are in general so bitter 

 and sour as seldom to be eatable. 



30. Citrus bergamot. 



This is frequent in orchards : it is less than an orange, and 

 has a fine smell. 



37' Citrus citrullus. — Citron. 

 This fruit is about double the size of a lemon, but nearly 



