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" Its juice is rarely used, excepting such as the Amboynese 

 use with their Papeda porridge, but mostly for the prepara- 

 tion of the Cassomba pigment. Then its skin and juice is 

 cooked up with other medicines to enhance their power, 

 especially with bitter potions, which are given to clear the 

 body and correct bad humours. With its rind the head is 

 rubbed after washing it, as has been stated si Lemon Purrnt, 

 but care should be taken that the juice neither touch the 

 skin, nor drop on the body." 



Observation. 



Under the name of Lemon Swangi it occurs in Valent. 

 Amboinae descript, p. 190. (Vide pi. 226, fig. c of Atlas.) 



(A) Chap. 39, p. 107, vol. ii. 



" Limonellus. 



" Limon nipis. 



" Dutch Liemis Boom. 



" Of all the acid lemons this is the most common and 

 most used (vulgatissimus et usitatissimus). Its trunk is more 

 slender than that of the foregoing (Lemon Swangy) ; scarcely 

 thicker than one's leg ; mostly crooked and bent, having only 

 few branches, which are crooked and spread out, and which 

 bear numerous very short and spiny branchlets, the whole 

 forming an extended and irregular head. The leaves are 

 smaller than in any foregoing ones ; about three inches long, 

 with a small but very distinct cordate part, or winged petiole 

 ('parva, sed notabili cordata parte'; according to picture 

 about -^th of the whole leaf). At the edges they are slightly 

 serrated and of a much pleasanter green than other lemon 

 leaves. The spines which are long and slender are firmly 

 joined to the leaf insertions. The flowers are similar to 

 those of the foregoing with five whitish oblong petals (his 

 picture, however, shows only four petals), turned outwards, 

 gathered together, and exhaling in the morning a grateful 

 odour like those of Lemon Martin. The fruit is much 

 smaller than the preceding : of the size of an apricot, 

 globular, without tubercles, but some instead have a marked 

 furrow, and mostly near the stalk, or in the inferior extremity 

 (apex), with a few tubercles resembling warts. At first the 

 fruit is green and then citrine colour. Its skin is very 



