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CHAPTER X. 



THE TRUE-LIME GROUP, AND THE "LIMA. 



THE only statement in Baber's memoirs which might 

 incline one to think that his limoo is the true-lime, 

 is his qualifying it by " it is very plentiful/'* The 

 only Citrus which is now found all over India is the 

 true-lime the kaghzi nimboo and its varieties. 



According to Brandis, the Sanskrit name of the 

 true lime (C. medica acida) was jambira. In my 

 opinion the jambiri is a totally different Citrus, and 

 owes its parentage to a different source from that of 

 the true-lime. Both the word lime in English, and the 

 jambiri in the vernacular, have been much abused, 

 and have caused great confusion. 



Sir J. Hooker, in his " Flora of British India," 

 following Dr. Brandis, places the lime as a variety of 

 the Citrus medica the Citron. He says, under the 

 heading of C. medica, Linn. : " Van 3 acida leaflet 

 elliptic, oblong, petiole many times shorter than the 

 leaflet, linear or obovate, racemes short, flowers small, 

 petals usually four, fruit usually small, globose or 

 ovoid, with a thick or thin rind, pulp pale, sharply 

 acid," the same as C. acida of " Roxburgh's Flora 

 Indica." The large fruited states of this Citrus appear 

 to assume the form of Citron, and the small to ap- 



* Vide Appendix, No. i (b). 



