i 2 Oranges and Lemons of India. 



With the exception of karna nimboo, I think all these 

 names must have been inventions of the people about 

 the late Maharaja, who may have deceived him with 

 these new varieties, in order to get bakshish out of him, 

 probably under the persuasion that they were sweeping 

 the country for novelties for him. All those mentioned 

 above, including the warty ones might, however, have 

 been taken off one tree. 



This khatta orange is not alluded to in any botanical 

 book that I have seen, and Alph. de Candolle in his 

 " Origin of Cultivated Plants " apparently had not even 

 suspected its existence ; yet it is a very distinct sour 

 orange, and very common, and must not in any way be 

 confounded either with the Seville orange, or with the 

 citron as some people sometimes call it, including 

 probably the translators of Baber's memoirs. 



Wherever I have seen this khatta orange, it has 

 had always the same characters. Probably it has 

 never been raised in any other way than from seed, 

 as no one would think it worth the trouble of budding, 

 or grafting it on other stock. It is largely raised from 

 seeds, and used for budding other better kinds on, as 

 the seed germinates freely, and the young plants make 

 rapid and vigorous growth. In order to prevent any 

 further mistakes about it, I shall endeavour to give as 

 minute a description of its botanical characters as I 

 can. 



It is a strong growing tree, not at all slender, 

 spinous, sometimes its spines are formidable. The 

 typical leaves are dark green and ovate, rather serrate 

 than crenate, from three to four inches long, but larger 

 and smaller are also found. Its very young shoots 

 and leaves are pale green, only tinged with ochre- 

 colour. This is much more pronounced in young 

 seedling plants over a year old. The petiole is slender 



