78 Oranges and Lemons of India. 



I introduced the Malta lemon into Lucknow in 

 1863, together with other citrus. Thence it has been 

 distributed to numerous places.* 



Mr. Nickels, of Jaunpore, introduced this lemon tree 

 from England in 1872. It is given in pi. 185. 



At Pondicherry I found this lemon also, and, as I 

 have not met with it anywhere else in South India, 

 the chances are it was introduced there by the French. 

 It is given in pi. 184, figs, a and b. 



Is the petiole of the lemon leaf margined, or naked? 



There were in Etawah upwards of 300 Malta lemon 

 trees which I had propagated. In the petioles of all 

 the margins had entirely disappeared, and it required 

 a magnifying glass to discover the remnants of the 

 margins in two slight elevations on the upper part of 

 the petiole, which is short and yellow. I offered the 

 native gardener four annas (sixpence) for a leaf with a 

 margined or winged petiole, but among the 300 trees, 

 he was not able to find one. This shows how fixed a 

 character the naked petiole has become in this variety. 

 I attribute its absence in all these trees to their all 

 having been raised by budding from the original trees 

 in Lucknow. I would not be sure, however, that the 

 young leaves of its seedlings would not have margined 

 petioles, losing them when the tree became adult, and 

 its leaves perfected. Other varieties have margined 

 petioles in their typical leaves. 



The descriptions of the lemon plates in the Atlas 

 give all I can further say on this important group. 

 Their forms differ, perhaps, more than in other groups. 

 The whole group requires to be studied more minutely, 

 and experiments require to be made to ascertain how 

 far its varieties may cross with each other. The seed- 



* Recently also to Assam, Calcutta, Bangalore, Tinevelly, and the 

 Punjaub. 



