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kagJizi nimboo of India, but the wonder is how has the mis- 

 take of calling it C. Bergamia of Risso come about (vide 

 Appendix, No. 55)? The latter is the Bergamotte, used in 

 Europe, principally in perfumery, for its essential oil, and 

 very different from the common true lime of India. Sir J. 

 Hooker, in his "Flora of Br. Ind.," p. 515, vol. L, says of the 

 Bergamotte, it is " rarely cultivated in India." In all my 

 researches I have never met with it in India, and Mr. Duthie 

 tells me he has not either. Rumphius does not describe any 

 variety that can be taken for it. Loureiro does not mention 

 it in Cochin China. It is probably a variety raised from seed 

 in Southern Europe. 



No. 10. 



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

 under the heading, " Oranges not fruiting," the following is 

 stated : " In a small-fruited form of Citrus medica, only a 

 small percentage of the blooms are hermaphrodite, and have 

 a well-developed pistil, with a long style and capitate stigma, 

 protruded beyond the stamens. These latter only may be 

 expected to bear fruit, if the flowers happen to set. A small 

 plant of Citrus limonum flowers profusely every year at Kew, 

 but bears no fruit. The ovary remains small, and the style 

 is very short and rudimentary, with little trace of a stigma, 

 The pollen appears perfect, but does not effect fertilization, 

 even if applied to the rudimentary pistil. The defect in all 

 probability pertains to the latter, and appears to be more 

 universal than in the case of C. medica, mentioned above. 

 All of the above cases may be seen in the economic house at 

 Kew, where the plants are practically polygamo-moncecious, 

 bearing male, and occasionally a few hermaphrodite flowers. 

 Of course this may apply to young or small plants only,* 

 or to conditions of culture and surroundings. The ' Genera 

 Plantarum ' does not mention this fact, and in Le Maout and 

 Decaine's work the flowers of the Aurantiaceae are said to 

 be generally hermaphrodite. In an allied group of the same 



* Vide Appendix, No. 7. 



