38 Oranges and Lemons of India. 



have an orange of the Malta type, with a purely citron- 

 yellow exterior like that of pummelos. Moreover, I 

 have seen true pummelos with red cheeks. Vide 

 Appendix, No. 26. 



Risso, p. 132, says of the pummelos " en effet, les 

 pompelmouses ont de Taffinite avec les oranges douces, 

 et avec les lumies, qui sont deux groupes tres eloignes 

 Tun de Fautre." While Gallesio groups the " Porno 

 d'Adamo " of Palestine (a shaddock) with the Seville 

 orange and says it is intensely bitter.* 



Further, the Jhambiri presents two varieties, one 

 yellow-skinned, the other orange-skinned. Otherwise 

 they appear indistinguishable. The yellow skin of 

 the pummelo would naturally carry with it a pale 

 pulp, which afterwards may by reversion, have acquired 

 some blood colour, increased later on by selection. 

 So that we have now white, pink, or beef-coloured 

 pummelos ; others with mixed colours and entirely 

 yellow, and also red-checked pummelos. As to the 

 tomentum of some varieties, it may have originally 

 been a part of the general elephantisation of the whole 

 tree ; that is a luxuriant growth of the natural 

 tomentum found on the young unexpanded leaf buds 

 of most Citrus. In the pummelo proper we also 

 find typically huge leaves of a leathery consistence, 

 and enormous petiole wings which are also indicative 

 of luxuriance. This increased tomentum in some 

 varieties may have been subsequently lost by reversion 

 to its original scantiness. 



If the foregoing arguments are well founded, we 

 ought to find " elephant " varieties in other types of 

 Citrus ; and so we do, in abundance. The kathairee 

 nimboo curiously enough, a very tomentose variety 



* The modern Adam's apple of the English shops, said to come 

 from Palestine, I found was only sour without bitterness. 



