AUUANTIACE7K. 131 



Pampel-mces, Rumph. II. t. 24. f. 2.De Cand. Prod. I. 539. 

 Sot. Misc. I. 303. 



HAB. Cultivated. 



FL. February May. 



A tree 12-18 feet in height ; crown flat ; branches spreading, 

 towards their extremities 3-gonal, anguloso-sulcated, and pu- 

 berulous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 5-6 inches long, and 

 2|-3 inches broad, pellucido-punctate, glabrous and shining 

 above, and distinctly pubescent beneath and ciliated especially 

 when young : alse of the petioles broad, crenulated, minutely 

 ciliated. Spines usually avvanting. Racemes subterminal, ax- 

 illary, rather longer than the petiole, 3-9-flowered : flowers 

 large, white, fragrant, pedicelled, furnished at the insertion with 

 a small lanceolate bractea : peduncle angulose, as also the pedi- 

 cels pubescent. Calyx irregularly 4- rarely 5-fid. Petals 4, 

 rarely 5, oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, externally virido-punctate, 

 internally longitudinally sulcated. Stamens 30-35. Disk an- 

 nular. Ovary stipitate, globose, green, minutely puberulous : 

 style terete, club-shaped : stigma subcapitate, turbinate. 



There are two varieties of Shaddock. In var. a. maliformis, 

 the fruit is globose, with the pulp of a pale pink colour, ap- 

 proaching to a very light yellow. In var. /3. pyriformis, the 

 fruit is more or less pear-shaped and the pulp is of crimson 

 colour more or less intense. The second of these varieties is 

 the most esteemed, being sweet and juicy, and having only in 

 a slight and palatable degree the acridity which abounds in the 

 first. There are very few good Shaddock trees in the Island. 

 I may remark that I have always found the pear-shaped variety 

 good, whereas it is seldom the case with the round-shaped 

 fruit. There cannot be a doubt, but that if budding, as is done 

 in China, were more generally practised, instead of trusting to 

 propagation by the seed, that the fruit would be much improved. 



This tree is a native of China. It was first brought from 

 that country to the West Indies by Captain Shaddock, whose 

 name has since been given to the fruit. 



7 Citrus Paradisi. Forbidden Fruit. 



Petioles alate, leaves oval rounded crenulated 

 glabrous, stamens 25, fruit large. 



This is a tree of a handsome appearance, about 20 feet in 

 height, with branches suberect, and sharp at the apex. Leaves 

 oval, rounded, crenulated, glabrous : petioles subalate. Spines, 

 for the most part short, axillary. Flowers peduncled, axillary, 

 either solitary or in a raceme of from 2 to 6. Bracteas one at 

 the base of each pedicel, concave, lanceolate. Peduncle glab- 

 rous, half-an-inch long. Calyx irregularly 5-fid, faintly ciliated. 

 Petals 4, lineari-oblong, rounded. Stamens 25-26. Fruit 

 sweetish, subacid. 



