24 Oranges and Lemons of India. 



parent; but for reasons stated in the chapter on " Seville 

 Oranges," I doubt whether the bitter or Seville orange 

 could have been the parent of this " C. aurantium 

 sinense " of Gallesio. Probably also the Seville and 

 the Portugal oranges are more closely allied to each 

 other than both are to the suntara type of Indian 

 oranges. * 



I know that recently the Malta or Portugal type of 

 orange has been on various occasions introduced into 

 India. In Gujranwala, Colonel Clarke introduced the 

 Malta blood orange between 1852-56. I introduced 

 the same, with other varieties of the Malta oranges, in 

 Lucknow in 1863. Mr. Nickels introduced the blood 

 orange from England, and the Portugal orange by seed 

 from Suez in 1872. In Colonel Yule's u Glossary," it 

 is stated in a note to page 490 that one of the writers 

 sent from Palermo a large collection of all sorts of 

 orange trees to Lahore in 1873. Then in Poonathey 

 have a variety of this type called mussembi, which 

 evidently means Mozambique, and may have originally 

 come from that coast of Africa. Over the south of 

 India, the Malta varieties bear the name of aranj. In 

 Tanjore, a yellowish variety is called by Europeans 

 the Spanish orange. In Ceylon, this type of orange 

 goes by the name vi peni-dbdan, which simply means, 

 I am told, sweet round orange. Curiously enough all 

 over the N.-W. Provinces, natives call the Portugal 

 orange Sylhet. How this name came to be adopted I 

 don't know, the Sylhet orange being a suntara, and of 

 a totally different type. It is only in Tanjore that I 

 found a variety of the Portugal orange called by a 

 native name, bandir. What this may mean I do not 

 know. 



* Possibly the seed of the Portugal orange may have produced a 

 sour and bitter orange, but not the bitter or Seville orange. 



