ORANGES AND LEMONS OF INDIA. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE SEVILLE ORANGES. 



THE Emperor Baber, in his memoirs, mentions the 

 " naranj " as one of the kinds of Citrus he found in 

 India. I don't, however, believe that he meant by 

 this name the bitter or Seville orange.* He says little 

 about the Indian oranges, but a good deal about those 

 of Central Asia, and the N.W. frontier of India. He 

 adds that in the latter part it is called ndrank. The 

 kinds he alludes to are evidently sweet oranges of 

 some sort (vide Baber's memoirs, Appendix No. i (a)\ 



It is more probable that his kirneh\ is the Seville 

 orange. He says it is acid. There is, however, 

 much confusion in Indian names of Citrus. Kama 

 is one of the names given to a true Seville, on the 

 western coast. While another totally different kind 

 the khatta of most places is, by some, also called 

 karna. I am informed that the latter name in 

 Sanskrit means "bitter." 



Risso, in his monograph, gives " narandj" as the 

 Arabic Synonym of the Citrus Bigaradia, the Seville 

 orange, and Alphonse de Candolle credits the Arabs 



* Although Risso gives narandj as synonymous with Seville orange, 

 t Appendix, No. i (/'). 



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