<*ALLf>ln> 1'KEATIM, uN 1111, ClTRtfS PAMIL1 



NO. II. 



Acruiuen Margarita. 



Citrus Margarita: elm I>M ;i *'li;oi iri: rih-u- rauima ben 

 dentibus, acnleatis, petiolis linciiribus: baeejs :> loenl.iri- 

 bus, oblomris. (Lour. l-'l. Corli. t. '. p. lii'.i.t 



The Ci(r>i.i$ //'f/y/wvV" resembles a little the 

 Citru* j((poni<:<t, but it differs in many traits, 

 which make it another species. It is a shrub 

 whose branches are straight and thorny ; its 

 leaves, lanceolate and scattered, are based upon 

 linear petioles; its odoriferous Dowers having 

 five white petals are joined in small numbers 

 upon peduncles scattered along the branches. 



Its fruit (small, oblong, and of a red-yellow) 

 contains but five sections under a very thin skin ; 

 the pulp is sweet and agreeable. 



It comes from China, above all from the neigh- 

 borhood of Canton, and is never found in Cochin- 

 China. 



The Citrus of Thumberg, on the contrary, has 

 a winged petiole, and the fruit has thick skin, 

 containing nine cells. 



NO. III. 



A minion Amboinicum caule an^uloso. folio maximo, 

 petiolo alato, floro majyno, fniclu spherieo, oompirsso, 

 foveolis notato, cortice croceo, medulla adluerente. SIKTO 

 viscoso et acidulo. 



Agrume rouge d'Amboine. 



Aiirnntia acida, vnliro Lemoeu Tlan. limn. Ciirns fusca. 

 (Lour. Fl. Coo, Sp. i.--a (.'ay Baonjj; Chi xac H clii ken. 



The red agrume of Amboyna, as well as other 

 varieties of this island, and of Japan, offers char- 

 acteristics which merit notice. We will copy 

 what Rumphius says of it in his herbarium of 

 Amboyna. 



The sour-fruited orange is a tree growing at 

 Amboyna to a very great height. Its stem is 

 angulous and as if furrowed ; its winged leaf is 

 nearly as large as that of the pumpelmoes, and 

 has a very strong odor ; the thorn is long and 

 sharp; the flower, large and white, having five 

 petals. 



The fruit, round and a little flattened, is marked 

 by many small spots, and docs not take its color 

 entirely until its full maturity. The skin ad- 

 heres to the pulp, and the sections adhere among 

 themselves as in the lemons. The pulp is full of 

 a gelatinous and acidulated juice. This spppios 

 resembles the Citrus fusca of Louroiro, of which 

 it is perhaps but a variety. 



NO. IV. 



Ac m men Winense fnictii ex viridi niLfricanli. medulla 

 subdnlci. 



.A grume do la Chine. 



Agrume Chinese. 



Aurantium Sinense : Lemon manis Tsjina. <Kumpli. 

 Herb. Amb., part 3, cap. 41.) 



The iiurantiurn zinense which Jtiunphius ^nv 

 in the islands of Amboyna and Band a, appeals 

 not to differ from our orange. 



It forms a fine tree, which grows larger than 

 the sour orange ; its straight branches give to it 

 a head, rounded and high ; the leaf, long, smooth, 

 with a twisted petiole, has a lateral thorn. The 

 fruit, large and round, has a skin of a blackish 

 green color, which does not adhere at all to the 

 pulp ; its juice is a little vinous and sweetish. 



Rumphius observes that there is also a species 

 of it whose fruit is smaller and much sweeter ; 

 and three others, of which the first makes a very 

 large tree, and bears a large, sweet fruit ; the 

 second produces a fruit covered by tubercles, 

 and of which the pulp is scarcely sweetish ; and 



Ilir third, a low i >lirub, gives a si null t'ruit, \\ ho 

 skin is very thin mid agreeable. The lirst, that 

 he calls (inrcihtiiiin ccw'uwttttti- t faiiiOH mcmix l>< 

 x'Htr, appears to belong to our oranges. The sec- 

 ond, called at. lianda h-nnnt //v/r/v///, seems to 

 approach the l< ///"// /< /////>,,-. //x. of which we -hull 

 speak farther on. 



The third, which he calls <i.ii.rii.linnt- iinul<ni< 

 i,ni<hi I't.iixc nnil<i(i't ic.inmi. x/inxxi, and lemon coltc, 

 seems related to 



NO. V. 



Aerumen Ainhoinicum eaule J'rutieo>o. folio p<tiol<p 

 linear!, flore, axillari. 



Agrume d'Amboine. 



Agrnine d'Amboina. 



^lalum eitrium: Lemon HI-HI: Limo mammosus. etc. 

 (Humph.) 



The lemnn xi.txxu otters many varieties differing 

 a little in size and form of fruit, and these all 

 appear to be related to the citron, but they differ 

 from it in the (lowers, which are axillary, and 

 which grow beside the thorn, often singly, some- 

 times to the number of two or three, but never 

 on a common peduncle. Its fruit is oblong, and 

 forms a kind of cone : the uneven skin yellowish 

 and insipid, encloses a whitish and acidulated 

 pith. 



Rumphius says that the citron tree, or llnn> 

 liHiuuiiosux, is not indigenous at Amboyua or at 

 Banda ; that he has never seen it grow to the 

 size of a tree, but rather to a bush, and that 5 1 

 grows no taller in India. 



He also remarks that wild lemons are found 

 in Java, where they are thought to be indigenous, 

 and which are called lemon Java ; also, that all 

 these Indian oranges have peculiar traits, mak- 

 ing them differ from European Citrus. 



This remark is strengthened by his descrip- 

 tions, always telling us of new beings that we 

 cannot associate with our Citrus. 



Aerumen Amboinicum folio maculato. petiolo alato, flore 

 lacemoso ei terminal!, frnctu Uavo minatissiino. medulla 

 aeidissima, Amboinis Anrarius dicto. 



Ajjnime d'Amboine a fenilles panachees. 



Agrivmc a folio machiate. 



Limonelluw Anrarins: Lemon Maa>. 



The Uffl0nell'U8'a'urariu8 has the physiognomy 

 of a lemon mixed with orange, but it has, also, 

 peculiar traits. 



Its stem is tall, its leaf, deeply colored and va- 

 riegated, is upon a petiole, whose wings are very 

 nearly as large as the leaf. 



The fruit, the size of a musket-ball, is round, 

 ni a m done (nippled), yellowish, and is formed of 

 a skin so thin that it seems rather a pellicle than 

 a skin, and which has not the lemon aroma ; the 

 pulp is full of an acid juice. 



The flowers are very small and terminal, grow- 

 ing at the end of the boughs, in bunches, like the 

 olive. 



I know nothing of the number, position, or 

 peculiarities of the sexual system. Rumphius, 

 to whom we are indebted for this description, 

 says nothing of them. 



This fruit is called at Amboyna nnrriin< t be- 

 cause goldsmiths use its juice for cleansing their 

 work. 



NO. VII. 



Aerumen hulk-inn [olio maximo alato, floro minimo. 

 quartripctalo albo. tnberonlis obsito, medulla gn 

 acldissitna. 



Agrume verdatre d'Amboine a fruit tubercul-ux. 



