72 Oranges and Lemons of India. 



India across what is now the north-eastern frontier, is 

 very probable, and this might explain, supposing the 

 Citrus medica also to have been introduced from 

 China, how it came to be wild in many places along 

 the north-eastern border of India. It would explain 

 also the fact of there being so many varieties of citrus 

 along that border. 



Note. In the " Babylonian and Oriental Record" 

 for May, June, and July, 1888, in an article on the 

 " Cone-fruit of the Assyrian monuments," I have 

 endeavoured to show that it is possible this "cone- 

 fruit " may have been intended for a citron, and not 

 for a pine-cone, as Assyriologists had supposed. More- 

 over, in the same Record for July, 1888, Prof. Dr. T. 

 De Lacouperie has stated that he has traced commu- 

 nications between Mesopotamia and North China as 

 early as the twenty-third century B.C. 



Figures of the citron group are given in pis. 139 

 to 177. 



