318 Appendix. 



occur ; not, however, so many as are made out by the below 

 mentioned authors. Indeed, from the subsequent chapter, 

 40, (Limonellus aurarius^} this is clear. 



" Many species of Limonelli, or varieties, are enumerated in 

 Sloan, Catal. pi. Jam. p. 21 1, which are grouped with these, and 

 which are recorded in Thes. nostro Zeyl., p. 143, where chiefly 

 Indian species occur. Again, see Ray Dendr., p. 80 ; Plukn. 

 Almag., p. 239 ; Ferrar. Hesper. Belgic., p. 209 ; J. Commelin 

 Hesper. Belgic., p. 9 ; Valent. Amboin. descript., p. 190, &c." 



(Nota bene. There can be no doubt whatever that, both 

 from its picture and its description, this Limonellus, or Limo 

 tennis, of Rumphiur,, Limon nipis of the Malays, is identical 

 with the kagJizi nimboo of India, and the Lime of Monserrat 

 the C. medica van acida, of Brandis and Hooker. I 

 have entered into all the details of the uses of this lemon 

 nipis which Rumphius gives, not because they are of much 

 value at present, but because I thought them of some im- 

 portance, to show to what extent this kaghzi nimboo was 

 used in the Malay archipelago. It was not used only as a 

 condiment in food, and preserved in sugar as a sweetmeat, 

 but also used in medicine, and in the arts. Now, in order 

 that 210 years ago it should be there (vulgatissimus et 

 usitatissimus), it must at least have been known there pro- 

 bably some hundreds of years before, to spread all over 

 those islands, and to have been found of use in the arts and 

 in medicine. Nevertheless, although found " from Java to all 

 the East Indian islands," it was not found in forests, but every- 

 where near habitations, and carefully cultivated. 



Under those circumstances, there are only two ways of 

 looking at it : (d) Either it was an indigenous variety, pro- 

 duced in course of cultivating other kinds, and raising them 

 from seeds, as varieties are often thus produced in Europe and 

 elsewhere ; or (b) it was introduced " tale quale " from else- 

 where. This lime is common to both Continental India 

 and Ceylon, and to the Malay archipelago. There are other 

 things which are common to both localities, such as "Capas" 

 (cotton), and Cassomba ("Kussumb," Carthamus tinctorius), 

 and Krissen (Kreese). There must therefore have been 

 trade between these two places in olden times, especially 

 along the coast of the Malayan peninsula, Burma, and 



