124 TH-ALAMIFLORJE. 



usually very distinctly marked. Embryo straight: 

 cotyledons thick, fleshy : plumule conspicuous De 

 Cand. and Lindl. 



Almost all the plants belonging to this tribe are natives of 

 the East. Several species, however, have been very generally 

 cultivated, and are now naturalized in different tropical coun- 

 tries. The wood is universally hard; all parts abound in a 

 volatile fragrant oil ; and the pulp of the fruit is more or less 

 acid. 



I. TRIPHASIA. 



Flowers with the proportion of the parts ternary. 

 Stamens 6, free, rarely 5 and then the fifth opposite 

 to a petal larger than the rest. Anthers subsagittate. 

 Fruit 3-celled, 3-seeded. Embryos several in each 

 seed. De Cand. 



1 . Triphasia trifoliata. Three-leaved Triphasia. 

 Leaves 3-foliate. 



Limonia trifoliata, Linn. mant. 237. Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 463. 

 T. trifoliata, De Cand. Prod. I. 536. 



HAB. Cultivated. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



This is a very common shrub in our gardens. It generally 

 receives the name of the Chinese lemon. The fruit is red and 

 juicy, the size of a small gooseberry, of an oval shape, and of 

 an insipid taste with an aromatic flavour, by no means palata- 

 ble. It is furnished with straight axillary spines, and, were it 

 not so slow in its growth, it might be employed to make a strong 

 and beautiful fence. It is a native of China, Cochin-China, and 

 India. 



II. LIMONIA. 



Flowers with the proportion of the parts quater- 

 nary or quinary. Calyx 4-5-partite. Petals 4-5. 

 Stamens free, double the number of the petals, some- 

 times equal. Fruit berried, pulpy, 4-5-celled : cells 

 1 -seeded. De Cand. 



Name, from lymoun, the general designation in Arabic for 

 the orange tribe. 



1. Limonia citrifolia. Lemon-leaved Limonia. 

 Leaves simple and trifoliate, leaflets ovato-oblong 



