28 Oranges and Lemons of India. 



or claret red ; in others, the whole pulp is of this colour. 

 The latter varieties have usually a redder exterior than 

 the bloodless ones. Mr. A. Y. Gubboy, who was in 

 Canton, informed me that they have there a sour blood 

 orange which never sweetens. 



In Kandy I found a curious and interesting variety 

 of this type, shown in pi. 56. Some said it was nothing 

 but a small pummelo ; others called it a sour orange 

 (amool dbdan). Studying it more closely, it appeared 

 to me an overgrown, thick-skinned and yellow orange 

 of the Portugal type (C. aurantium sinense Gall.). It is 

 not impossible that this Kandy yellow orange may be 

 an intermediate form between the Portugal type of 

 orange and the Pummelos proper, the latter being still 

 more elephantine in the growth of all their parts, in- 

 cluding the enormous wings of their petioles. 



Nota bene. I believe the Aurantium verrucosum of 

 Rumphius, shown on the Atlas plate 59, figs, dfand e, 

 is of the Portugal orange type (vide Appendix, 41 (m) ), 

 although Miquel in his " Flor. Ind. Batav." calls it C 

 decumana, var. verrucosa. Pis. 40 to 58 show oranges 

 of the Portugal or Malta type. 



