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comes yellow all over. Its skin is not thick, but solid, and 

 with a strong, but unpleasant scent, resembling ' aquam 

 fortem.' * The pulp is white, very acid and sharp, so that, 

 owing to its excessive acidity, it is not used in food. Its 

 strong scent produces giddiness, and does harm to the head. 



"In Latin, it is called Limo Taurinus ; among Malays 

 Lemon Carbon. The Malays, indeed, to all large things 

 apply the name of Bull or Elephant, in the same way that 

 the Greeks express large size by the preposition of the 

 particle Bu. Hence, it would not be out of place to call 

 this fruit "Bulimonem." In Macassar it is called Lemon 

 Cambar, that is a tumid or swollen lemon ; in Amboyna 

 Usse Ela Bal y or Djoboc Carboo. In Ternate Lemo-Cabi, 

 that is goatish-lemon, from its offensive smell. 



" In Amboyna it rarely occurs, but more frequently in 

 Macassar, and many there plant it on plots near habitations, 

 on account of its shade. 



"The juice of these lemons is mostly used for cleaning 

 weapons, both of brass and iron, when they become rusty ; 

 hence, some called them Lemon Padangh. that is weapon 

 lemons. If the Malays and Macassarese clean their swords 

 and weapons either with the juice of this, or with any other 

 thing whatever, they are afterwards in the habit of giving 

 them a blue tint. This can be done as well by the juice of 

 these lemons as by that of Lemon nipis, if corrosive sub- 

 limate (sublimatus mercurius) be added to it, and which is 

 called by them Warangau. By this composition the 

 weapons are preserved from rust, but at the same time it 

 poisons them. Certainly lemons are very useful for cleaning 

 and brightening all sorts of copper things, either with their 

 juice alone or mixed with charcoal, and afterwards freely 

 washed in water and dried in the sun. 



" It can also be used in preparing Cassomba. They may, 

 however, prefer other lemons for this, as they obliterate more 

 effectually the smell of dyed clothes than this taurine variety. 

 Both these fruits here described, however, become covered 

 with a soft gummy secretion. These and other acid lemons 

 are used by the people of Macassar for washing their clothes, 

 for which purpose they take a larger proportion of juice than 

 * By "aquam fortem" Rumphius probably meant alcohol. 



