320 Appendix. 



In Ternate, Lemo Tinagara ; in Macassar, Lemo Bulcyu ; 

 in Amboyna, Ussi Helawan. 



" It is found in Celebes, Ternat<, and Amboyna ; but in none 

 does it grow abundantly. These lemons are not used in 

 food, but mostly by goldsmiths, for cleaning every kind of 

 golden article, which they afterwards intend to cover with 

 pigment. For this purpose they use this lemon in preference 

 to others, hence its name. They are also mixed with medi- 

 cines and juices, and used for clearing eyes, for which they 

 are better than others, as they are not so sharply acid and 

 irritating. Where plentiful, there they are also used for 

 washing the head and body, not so much for cleaning it, as 

 to give it a nice scent. 



" Compared to other lemon kind, the branches of this have 

 many spines, short, thick, and hard.* The leaves drop off 

 rather readily, and one part of the leaf easily separates from 

 the other, and falls off (the leaflet separates from the winged 

 petiole) ; so that the remaining part looks like the leaf of 

 some other tree. The leaves, if crushed, have not much of 

 the scent or taste of lemon leaves. ( Vide pi. 227. figs, c, c 

 of Atlas.) 



Explanation. 



Also described in Valent. Amboinae, p. 190, under the 

 name of Lemon A mas. 



(Nota Bene. This lime is thin-skinned and very small, with 

 very acid juice, like a small kaghzi nimboo. But the rind and 

 the spotted leaves have not a pleasant scent, although the 

 character of the fruit has much of the kaghzi nimboo ; the 

 leaves are more like those of the C. hystrix, that is, supposing 

 the whole leaf to be 3 inches, its winged petiole or cordate 

 part would be I inch, or about one third of the whole. Thus 

 Limonellus aurarius appears to be half way between the C. 

 hystrix and the Limonellus proper, or kaghzi nimboo?) 



(/) Chap. 40, p. no, vol. ii. 



" Limonellus Madurensis. 



" Lemon Madura. 



" Dutch Madurase Liemis Boom. 



* If I have read Rumphius rightly, before he said with regard to 

 spines, that there were not many of them (nee ita frequentes), all citrus, 

 however, have more or less spines. 



