68 Oranges and Lemons of India. 



smaller varieties of lemon of India. The French still 

 call this lemon " citron." 



In the foregoing attempt at the classification of the 

 C. medica I have put the chdngurd first, because 

 if it is not the same pre-adamite citron continued to 

 our days, it is, in my opinion, probably a reversion of 

 some cultivated form to an ancestral type ; that is, to 

 a form in which, according to my view, there had not 

 yet been developed a regular juice pulp, but instead 

 of it an inner whorl of rind. From the latter, as I 

 have ventured to explain in the chapter on Morpho- 

 logy, the whorl of carpels, containing the juice vesicles, 

 may subsequently have become developed. 



This Chdngurd, or primitive form of citron, is 

 shown in plate 139, fig. a, and plate 140, fig. a. Its 

 leaves (that is, those sent with it) resemble more those 

 of a citron than those of a lemon. 



I found that, practically, natives made a distinction 

 between the turunj and the bajoura. The larger 

 specimens, shown in plates from 142 to 147, and 

 others, they call turunj. Their pulp is usually sour 

 and dry. Their skin is very thick, giving the pulp 

 an insignificant position. The white part of the skin 

 is of a carroty consistence, and sweet. Not im- 

 probably these large turunj may have been selected, 

 and their skin thickened, as an article of food, on 

 account of its sweetness, while the pulp in these may 

 have been looked upon as of secondary importance. 

 The leaves of the turunj proper are usually oblong, 

 and often deeply emarginate, as shown in plate 155, 

 figs, c, d, e. They have a short petiole, with its wings 

 often continuous with the blade of the leaflet, with, or 

 without a distinct joint between the petiole and the 

 leaflet. The edges of their leaves are oftener serrate 

 than crenate. 



