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proach the West Indian lime, which is, however, 

 described as a bush with white flowers." 



I have seen undoubted limes with purely white 

 flowers, but usually the flowers are slightly tinged with 

 purple. Wherever I have seen the kaghzi nimboo it 

 was always a good-sized bush. I have never heard 

 that it is propagated by budding, but always by seed, 

 and it flowers in about four or five years. 



I do not think that much reliance can be placed, for 

 purposes of classification, on either the colour of the 

 petals or that of the young shoots. I have seen young 

 lime shoots more or less deeply tinged. Sometimes 

 they only have a slight tinge of ochre. I have seen 

 the young shoots of the Seville orange, the khatta 

 orange, and the pummelo having the same tinge ; and 

 I have seen a citron with white flowers and green 

 young shoots. 



Besides the smallness of the fruit, in the true-lime 

 there is a character which is very constant in typical 

 leaves I mean their winged petioles. 



Were I inclined to give great weight to the 

 doctrine of reversion, I would urge that, as the lime 

 tree is always raised from seed, it would have had 

 ample opportunities for its foliage to revert sometimes 

 to its supposed ancestral forms that of the lemon 

 and citron ; but it never does this, as far as I have seen. 

 Its foliage has a stamp which is very different from 

 that of either the lemon or the citron proper. 



In Ceylon, one day, I asked Dr. Trimen to be good 

 enough to show me what he had in the way of Citrus 

 trees in the Royal Botanic Garden of Peradeniya. 

 While going over the ground, his foreman placed in 

 my hand a Citrus fruit which I had never seen before, 

 and which he said he had brought from an adjoining 

 cocoa plantation. In Ceylon this Citrus is called 



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