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CHAPTER VII. 



THE JAMBHIRI GROUP. 



NATIVES of India give this name in different ways, 

 as jamir, jamiri, jambhiri, or jambira, and also 

 zamiri. Although by some, limes proper are mixed 

 up with this group, it is mostly a citrus with rather 

 orange characters, such as are shown in pis. 1 3 1 and 

 132, which goes by this name. Even in the days of 

 Baber it was this particular group, it appears, which 

 went by the name Q{ jambiri. He says in his memoirs, 

 that the jambiri is an acid citrus, of a deep yellow 

 colour, " resembling an orange, but which is not an 

 orange." 



From a commercial point of view it is not in de- 

 mand, and, therefore, it is mostly found in gardens of 

 native collectors of fruit trees, and grown more as a 

 curiosity. From a natural history point of view, how- 

 ever, I think it a very interesting group of citrus. 



The general character of the fruit and foliage is that 

 of the keonla and suntara oranges. The flowers I 

 have not seen, excepting in that of Hagkala. The ex- 

 terior of the fruit varies from smooth to chagrined and 

 sub warty. It is mostly mammillate. The colour of the 

 rind is either lemon-yellow or orange colour. Some 

 have a curious fawn-coloured epidermis, like that of a 

 potato. Whether this is an excretion formed by some 

 insect or not, I do not know. I have not, however, 



