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Amboin., there is no citrus that can be identified with 

 this orange-like jhainhlri, and Loureiro, in his list of 

 citrus of Cochin China gives nothing that approaches 

 it. In the Hagkala Garden, Ceylon, I saw a citrus 

 which appeared to belong to this group, but I never 

 saw it in the markets. I never met with it in South 

 India. The fact is, the true-lime or kaghzi-nimboo, has 

 been found so useful, and is so easily raised from seed, 

 all over India, that it has replaced most sour citrus, 

 and if it were not still kept in the gardens of native 

 gentlemen, as a curiosity, this jhambiri, would 

 probably, by this time, have become extinct. Who can 

 tell how many forms of citrus, raised from seed, may 

 have become extinct, on account of there being no 

 demand for them, owing to their being devoid of any 

 very useful qualities. In the time of Risso some of the 

 varieties he described were rare, because nobody but 

 enthusiastic collectors cared for them, while those with 

 good commercial qualities were becoming vulgarized. 

 Anyhow, this jhambiri appears to be unknown 

 out of India, and not improbably it may be an Indian 

 variety. It may have originated from seeds of the 

 siintara, or keonla group, which it resembles in form. 

 I have not been able to trace the meaning of the word. 

 Turunj, Bajoura, and Madhkaree. The first is 

 evidently not an Indian name. Rumphius, in chap. 

 35, vol. ii., on the citron, refers to a philological 

 discourse on the origin of the word citrus, by Bauhin., 

 libr. I., Cap. 25, where the latter comes to the con- 

 clusion that the ctzador of the sacred Scriptures means 

 this fruit. Hence the Chaldean name of these fruits 

 - Extrogin, in the singular Etog or Etrog, and 

 hence also the Arabic Atrog. Then in chap. 36 of the 

 same volume, under Limo tuberosus, Rumphius goes on 

 to say, " Similarly Torong and Toronga, which the 



