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NOTE. From Dr. Shortt's letter it would appear that the 

 bandir orange of Tanjore is of foreign origin. Rumphius, 

 in chap. 43, vol. ii., Aur. verrucosum, describes a variety of 

 the Portugal orange, and says that the fruit is about the size 

 of two fists ; that it is more juicy and sweeter than the Aur. 

 sinense (suntard), and that the Amboinese call it Lemon 

 Tsjina, "as this TS mostly cultivated by the Chinese in- 

 habitants." 



No. 7. 



In the Gardeners' Chronicle for 24th April, 1886, p. 534, 

 F. F. states that the citrus plants in Kew are "poly- 

 gamo-moncecious, bearing male, and occasionally a few her- 

 maphrodite flowers." 



NOTE. From my own observations I found that there is 

 scarcely one variety of orange, lemon, or lime which is not 

 polygamo-moncecious. In 1886 one tree a sweet lemon 

 was covered with bloom, but about seventy-five per cent., or 

 more, were only males, with the ovary and pistil rudimentary. 

 Only a very small percentage had a well-developed ovary 

 and stigma. I think it the general character here (Etawah) 

 of cultivated citrus to have male and hermaphrodite flowers 

 on the same tree. The sweet lemon in question did not 

 set more than two or three fruit that year, although it 

 usually bears many more. I am not prepared to say that 

 the pummelo should not be included in the same category. 

 I did not make special observations on the flowers of the 

 pummelo, but noticed a very large number of well-developed 

 ovaries and pistils among the open flowers of the pummelo 

 trees. 



No. 8. 



Sir C. F. Bonham, writing from Cintra on 2nd Sept., 1886, 

 in connection with the Portugal orange, kindly added the 

 following extract, taken from an old book : 



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