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allowed to become fully mature, is indeed dry, and gives 

 little juice, quite acid. The scent of the skin is strong, and 

 not so pleasant as in Lemon Purrut nay, it has a goatish 

 smell, and the leaves give off a similar scent. 



" The seeds are oblong, slender, thin, and rugose ; at one 

 end, indeed, they have almost a tail, composed of several 

 veins, which adhere to the intermediate pellicle. The 

 branches are everywhere covered with spines, which, in the 

 larger branches, become very small. 



"In Latin it is called Limo unguentarius y and by the 

 Malays Lemo curamas, from a scented ointment, with which 

 the body is rubbed, and in which the pounded rind of this 

 lemon enters as one of the ingredients. 



" In Amboina it grows in gardens in wild places,* and 

 several are planted in villages, but these trees are little known. 



" Of this kind nothing but the skin is used, which is mixed 

 with this ointment. Some then rub the head with it, after 

 using the lotion, mentioned under Lemon Purrut. This 

 scent, however, is little liked by persons of our nation, as it 

 is not pleasant, for which reason also it is not highly prized 

 by the inhabitants. Some, however, prefer it, and with 

 greater effect use its cut up pulp, steeped in water, with 

 which they wash the head. It removes the dirt and scruff 

 very well." 



(Nota bene. In Ceylon the lima, which the foregoing 

 Limo ventricosus closely resembles, has an acrid rind, and 

 an unpleasant flavour in its pulp. The Cingalese do not use 

 it in food, but only for washing the head. The -plantation 

 coolies also smear it over their feet and legs, to keep off land 

 leeches ; and therefore in Ceylon it has got also the name of 

 Kudalu dchi, or Leech Lime. Europeans call it Caffre Lime.) 



(/) Chap. 37, p. 104, vol. ii. 

 "Limo agrestis. 

 " Lemon papeda. 



* Alf. de Candolle in his " Origin of Cultivated Plants," p. 180, 

 translates " in hortis sylvestribus," into " shrubberies." I think what 

 Rumphius means is " gardens in wild places," such as are to be met with 

 also in Ceylon, in the midst of forests, and surrounding a few huts of 

 wood-cutters, c. The above description also agrees with that of the 

 lima of Ceylon, which is often found in similar places. 



