The " Amilbeds" and the Pummelos. 35 



With regard to thickness of skin, in the Bombay 

 market I found a large globose, red variety, which, 

 with a diameter of seven inches, had a skin varying 

 from \ to \ inch in thickness. This is the thinnest 

 skinned pummelo I have seen, and a very fine variety 

 it is. When cut open, its redness compares strongly 

 with that of raw beef. But when the vesicles are 

 removed and put on a plate they are of a rosy crim- 

 son. Other varieties have a pulp as pale as that of a 

 lemon, such as the Ceylon pummelo, and some varieties 

 of the Calcutta pummelos. The shape of the fruit varies 

 from oblate at both ends, to globose, slightly pyriform, 

 and distinctly pyriform ; the size, from that of a big 

 Malta orange, to the " decumana " proper of pis. 80 and 

 8 1. The colour of the exterior is lemon yellow, but both 

 in the Central Provinces and in Rampur some had a 

 distinct red blush over a large portion of their surface. 

 Now that I have touched on the subject of pube- 

 scence, I will add that at the Horticultural Garden of 

 Pondicherry they showed me what they called a wild 

 Citrus (oranger sauvage). The tree had an emarginate 

 leaf which was like a small lemon leaf. It had z.great 

 deal of pubescence on the stem and underside of the 

 midribs and petioles. It had spines like those of the 

 lemon, and its petioles had neither wings nor ridges. 

 They had, however, an indication of a joint between 

 the leaflet and the petiole. The leaves had slight 

 crenations. The oil cells and venations of the leaves 

 were those of a Citrus. The leaves when crushed 

 gave a faint and pleasant odor of sweet briar. 

 As I did not see either the flower or the fruit 

 of this " oranger sauvage," I cannot say what it 

 exactly was. The tree in question was on the left 

 hand side of the entrance as one goes in, and 

 formed part of a hedge which had been clipped. 



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