The "AmMeds" and the Pummelos. 33 



distinctive specific character, will have to be abandoned. 

 I found that the young unexpanded leaves of almost 

 all the Citrus orange, lemon, citron, lime are 

 covered with hairs. They can be easily made out by 

 means of a good magnifying glass, on the edges of the 

 leaves and underside of the mid-rib and petiole. I 

 had young seedlings of the amilbed and of the dfanni 

 kalan (a pummelo) ; both of them had pubescence on 

 the young leaves and the young stems. The only dif- 

 ference that I could find was that the pummelo seed- 

 lings had a little more of it. The Lahore gulgul, 

 pi. 32, has the young leaves and stem, and old leaves 

 also, as tomentose as most pummelos ; and the kathairee 

 nimboo of Bulrampore, pi. 35, is similarly furnished, 

 and has tomentum also on the calyces of the flowers, 

 which are purple. This belongs to a totally different 

 race of Citrus from the pummelo proper. The fact, 

 however, which removes all doubt about this point is 

 this. In the Etawah Public Garden there is a row of 

 ten pummelo trees, three of which are of the per- 

 manently pubescent kind, and one of these is less 

 pubescent than the other two, while the remaining 

 seven trees are entirely glabrous from the commence- 

 ment, that is, as glabrous as the orange, the lemon, 

 the citron, and the lirne trees. Moreover, Loureiro, at 

 p. 467, under the head of " Citrus decumana," des- 

 cribes it as " spinous and glabrous" and Rumphius, in 

 describing the 4th sp. of pummelo, says : " The leaves 

 beneath are not downy, as in the common kind. Its 

 fruit is the largest of all." See Appendix 41 (a). 



No one would "think that all these ten trees in 

 Etawah are not pummelos. Three of them the 

 tomentose are of the rather pyriform variety, there 

 called mahtabi ; and seven of the glabrous variety. 

 The latter have oblate fruit, and are called there 



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