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3. Round, thin skinned ( (a) Kalan Kaghzi sour. 



lemon j (6\ Sherbetee sweet.* 



4. " Gulgul " varieties. 



5. Nepalee nimboo. 



6. Gungolia. 



7. Behari. 



> The position of these is doubtful. 

 9. Attarra \ 



With regard to the sweet lemon, it is difficult to de- 

 cide whether it should be classified among the lemons 

 or among the oranges. All the sweet lemon trees I 

 have seen had p^lre white flowers, and one of them had 

 vastly more numerous male flowers than hermaphro- 

 dites. Most of them, however, are slightly mammillate, 

 but there are mammillate oranges also. 



The citrus limonum vulgaris of Risso has been 

 recently introduced into India by several persons. The 

 lemon shown on pi. 183 came from Mr. Stalkartt's 

 garden at Goosery, near Calcutta. He says it has 

 been there since 1833. Mr. Blechynden, secretary to 

 the Agri-Hort. Society of India, says that it is probable 

 the trees of this lemon, which they have in the Society's 

 gardens, came from Goosery. He adds that Firminger 

 alludes to this lemon, under the name of " Common 

 Spanish," and gives its native Bengali name as korna- 

 nimboo. He further says that in the Hortus Ben- 

 galensis of Roxburgh, the korna-nimboo is given as 

 "Citrus Medica, common lemon," and the date of 

 its introduction into the botanic gardens of Calcutta is 

 given as 1796.! 



* It is not impossible that the sweet lemon may have descended 

 directly from the sweet citron, and the sour lemon from the sour 

 citron. 



f He does not, however, mention where it was introduced from. 

 Possibly it may be an improved jora tevga of Assam, vide pi. 239. 



