The " Khattd" or "Kama" Oranges. n 



the oranges of Bajour may be about that of the quince, 

 and their juice is more acid than that of other 

 oranges."* He evidently could not have been des- 

 cribing by these a thoroughly sour orange, but a 

 sweetish one, and that it was not .so sweet as others he 

 knew. He then ends by saying that " the men of 

 Bajour and Siwad call ndranj, ndrank" and the 

 translators go on to say, " or perhaps rather ndrang"\ 

 Unless Baber has mixed up the sweet with the bitter 

 orange, it is hardly possible that by ndranj (which is 

 given by Risso as the Arabic synomyn of the Seville 

 orange) he meant any other than some sweet kind of 

 orange. If so, he has left out the Seville orange 

 altogether, unless he has mixed it up with the khattd 

 or karna of moderns. 



There are other names which natives give the 

 common khattd. One mali told me that the khattd is 

 the gulgul. Another said that men call it khattd, and 

 women gulgul, and that in Caw n pore it goes in- 

 differently, by the name of either gulgul or khattd. 

 From Jubbulpore it came under the name of attdrra, 

 lime, and others have called it common sour lime. 

 Major Duller kindly sent me a number of specimens 

 of the khattd orange from the Gonda district, from 

 some of the gardens of the late Maharaja of Bulrampur. 

 Two were somewhat warty, and were called pahdree 

 chakotra, or hill Pummelo ! Other smooth varieties 

 were ticketed iirna nimboo, bijbra nimboo, turunj 

 nimboo, kdrna nimboo, and chakotra tursh, or sour 

 Pummelo I It is hardly possible that the malis did 

 not know that these were all one and the same thing. 



Vide Appendix, No. i (a). 



t This is an indication that in the Jaghatai Turki there is no g 

 hard as in the Persian, and that, as I said in another place, the 

 translators' kilkil probably means nothing but gulgul. 



