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the cultivated limes. I could never find it in the 

 markets either in Kandy or Colombo. In the former 

 place I offered eight annas for a ripe specimen, and 

 did not get it. In Colombo I offered four annas for 

 one. There was none in the market, and I only got 

 one next day from some village. Of cultivated limes 

 I could get any number of ripe fruits. PI. 225 gives 

 outline drawings, drawn to scale, of both the fruit and 

 foliage of this lima. Figs, k and i are lima leaves, 

 and fig. j is a true-lime leaf, given for comparison. 

 The petioles of h and j are identical. 



By the courtesy of Dr. Trimen I had the opportunity 

 of looking over Rumphius's " Flora of Amboyna." I 

 found that this Ceylon lima had the characters of 

 his Limo ventricosus* vol. ii. tab. 26, fig. i. Making 

 allowance for his artist's inaccuracies, I think the two 

 are one thing ; the flowers are pictured with four 

 petals, and he says " it is used for washing the head" 



Before going any further, I should mention that later 

 on I obtained, through the kindness of Dr. King, 

 another copy of Rumphius, from the library of the 

 Botanic Garden of Seebpore, near Calcutta. It pos- 

 sessed the great advantage that on the back of each 

 plate it had comments by Buchanan Hamilton in his 

 own hand-writing. I have now seen three copies of 

 Rumphius's " Flora of Amboyna," including that of the 

 British Museum. All three have the same mistake, 

 on tab. 26, figs, i and 2, vol. ii. Somehow, either by 

 an oversight of Rumphius himself, or of his editor, 

 Burmann, in the Explicatio, these two figures have been 

 reversed. In the letter-press, the description of Limo 

 tuberosus martinicus corresponds with fig. 2 (and not 

 with fig. i, as is given in the Explicatio\ the latter 



* Not tuberosus. The numbers in the Explicatio of this plate are 

 by mistake reversed. Vide N.B. at end of (c) Appendix, No. 41. 



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