64 Oranges and Lemons of India. 



Some natives consider the turunj and the bajoura 

 as one and the same thing. But mostly natives call 

 the real citron turunj, and an intermediate form be- 

 tween this and the lemon bajoura (a sort of citron- 

 lemon). 



In Kandy the citron by some is called natterun, by 

 others siderun. 



In Concani, I am informed, it is called mauling, and 

 in Tulu, mdpala. 



Mr. A. Y. Gubboy informed me that, in Hebrew, 

 the citron is called etrog ; in Arabic, turunj ; and in 

 Bengali, shutrunj. By another gentleman I was in- 

 formed that turunj is a corruption of the Arabic 

 word utruj, and means a lemon. Utruj and atrog, 

 or etrog, however, have a family resemblance. 



Sir J. Hooker, under the heading of " Citrus Medica, 

 Linn.," states : "Young shoots glabrous, purple, leaflet 

 glabrous, flowers often unisexual,* petals generally 

 more or less pink, fruit globose, ovoid, or oblong, often 

 mammillate at the apex. Found in the valleys along 

 the foot of the Himalayas, from Gurhwal to Sikkim, 

 ascending to 4,000 ft; the Khasia mts., Garrow mts. 

 (Roxburgh), Chittagong (H.f. andT.), and the Western 

 Ghats, and Satpura range in Central India," 



" A shrub or small tree, flowering and fruiting at 

 most seasons, growing where I found it, on steep hill- 

 sides (in Sikkim). Leaflet 3 to 6 in., elliptic-ovate, 

 or ovate-lanceolate; petiole naked, or winged. Flowers 

 5 to 10 in a raceme, small, or middle-sized. Stamens 

 20 to 40." Then follow the varieties, which, he thinks, 

 have originated from the C. medica, Linn., of which, 

 he says, he found " one truly wild in Sikkim, with an 

 oblong leaflet 4 in. long, margined petiole, pink flowers 

 i in. long, narrowly ellipsoid rough fruit, 6 in. long, 

 * I have found most citrus with male and hermaphrodite flowers. 



