3OO Appendix. 



called Pumpelmus, with a pale or reddish pulp. (See Herm. 

 in H. L. Bat, page 405.) Moreover, a branch of this tree, 

 with fruit elegantly drawn, and by a figure expressed, is to 

 be found in ' Merian. Insect. Surinam/ at page 29, where also 

 see notes ; also 'Thesaur. nostrum Zeyl.,' page 39, where 

 also find many of its synonyms and authors. 



" This is also that tree which is supposed by botanists to be 

 the tree of knowledge, the fruit of which, in the terrestrial 

 paradise, was forbidden to our first parents, hence, also it is 

 called Pomum Adaini ' a Casp. and Joh. Bauhino.' By 

 one of these names it is also known by ' Pluknetii Mantissa, 

 and Arnaltheo, 1. c., in Thesauro Zeyl., &c.' This tree is 

 mentioned also by ' Valent in Amboinae descript, p. 188.'" 



(Nota bene. It is evident that in the days of Rumphius 

 pummelos were used in sea voyages, and as they kept long 

 they could have been easily taken all along the eastern coast 

 of the Bay of Bengal, and also to India and Ceylon, where 

 their seeds might have been easily sown. It appears, how- 

 ever, that in those days there was a tradition that the 

 pummelo came to the Malay archipelago from the south of 

 China. In the days of Rumphius, more than 200 years ago, 

 there were many Chinese residents in that group of islands, 

 and, as he says in another place that the art of budding and 

 grafting was not known in those islands, it may be inferred 

 that in China in those days this art was not known either. 

 Possibly this art may have had its origin in Europe, and was 

 thence transported to the East. E. B.) 



(.) Chap. 35, p. 99, vol. ii. 



Malum Citrium. 



Lemon Sussu. 



Dutch, Citroen, Boom.* 



" In India (Dutch India) the citron trees do not grow into 

 trees, but only bushes, with long and drooping branches like 

 whips, so as to touch the grass. The leaves differ from those 

 of all kinds of lemon trees. 



" They are not cordate (that is they have no wings to their 



petioles), and larger than laurel leaves. They are oblong and 



subrotund at both ends. The edges are mostly serrate. 



They are also of a more pleasant green than those of other 



* Vide plate 141, figs. A and B. 



