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hardly be handled. The flowers of this are smaller, the fruit 

 oblong, rotund, and of the form and size of the Spanish 

 lemon. At its extremity it has also a mammilla,and externally 

 it is smooth. The skin of this is very thin ; the pulp more- 

 over is more plentiful, more juicy, and more acid than in the 

 former ones.* This kind however is rare in Amboina, and has 

 been brought there from Banda. It is not used for other pur- 

 poses than as an acid sauce or condiment, like other lemons. 



" Certainly a sweet and very pleasant citron f of a superior 

 variety has been propagated by cultivation, the pulp and the 

 skin of which are both edible. Moreover it has an elegant 

 yellow colour when ripe. 



" All these trees, as is also stated by other authors, differ 

 from the Citrus (Cedrus) of the ancients, which grows in 

 Mauritania, on Mount Atlas, and which is a species of Oxy- 

 cedrus, with leaves, fruit, and scent very similar to those of 

 the Cypress. As is stated by Pliny, libr. 3, cap. 15, out of 

 the wood of the latter, in ancient times, were made fine 

 tables, called Mensae Citreae and Citrinae, on which, along 

 with various figures and marks, could be traced imaginary 

 tigers, panthers, and leopards." 



(c.) Chap. 36, p. 101, vol. ii. 



Limo Tuberosus (fig. 2, Tab. 26) (in Rumph. it is fig. i, 



E.BO 



Lemon Martin. 



" Among the species of acid lemons, which in all India are 

 as plentiful as the sweet ones, the most noted for size, are 

 those having many tubercles. Of these, the largest is called 

 by the people lemon martin. When full grown, this tree is 

 about the size of a common apple tree, but its branches are 

 very crooked, as well as its trunk. The leaves are very like 

 those of the citron. \ (Vide pi. 141, fig. a of the Atlas.) 

 They are however shorter and not very cordate, so that their 

 petioles appear only slightly winged. In the younger leaves 

 this cordate shape is more apparent. At their edges they 

 are equally serrate, and if roughly rubbed, they have by no 



* In this variety, it would appear, we have an approach to the lemon 

 proper. 



t This is like the madhkakree of India. 



J Evidently Rumphius is here describing fg. 2 of Table 26, and not 

 Jig. 1 of his illustrations. 



