CHAPTER IX. 



LEMON GROUP. 



THE Lemon-group is, properly speaking, a continu- 

 ation of the Citron-group. 



In Baber's memoirs there is mention of the limoo* 

 and by this the translators thought the true lime was 

 meant. It is impossible to say which kind Baber 

 really meant. In Bengal every Citrus is called 

 lemboo. In Upper India many varieties go by the 

 name of nimboo. Some, however, pronounce it lim- 

 boo. Had the true lime, or kaghzi nimboo, been known 

 to Baber, he would probably have written its name as 

 kaghzi limoo had it then been known by that name. 



In the same memoirs mention is also made of the 

 kilkil,\ as the translators have called it. This kilkil 

 gave me some trouble to trace. All the natives I 

 asked about this Citrus said they never heard of any 

 kind called kilkil. On one occasion I happened to 

 ask a subordinate of mine whether he ever heard of 

 it. He said I have not heard of kilkil, but I have 

 heard of gulguL Another native standing by then 

 showed me how easy it is in the native character for 

 kafto be changed into gaf by the addition of a simple 

 line. New light then began to dawn upon me. One 

 day I asked a native scholar whether the alphabet of 

 the Jaghatai Turki, in which Baber wrote his memoirs, 



* Appendix, No. i (). t Appendix, No. i (e). 



