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they may not have given Rumphius any chance of seeing its 

 orange colour. The same happens to the Kandy orange, 

 which is eaten while green, and therefore never seen when of 

 an orange colour.) 



(/) Chap. 41, vol. ii. 



"Aurantium acidum. 



" Lemon Itam. 



" Dutch De Zunre Oranje-Appel Boom. 



" Having described all the species of Indian acid lemons, 

 there remains for us to treat also of the fruit of oranges, 

 which constitute a peculiar genus, and which can by no means 

 be produced from the foregoing kinds, either by artificial 

 budding or grafting, as some Europeans have falsely thought 

 and wrote. Moreover, these fruits throughout India grow in 

 natural soil and among people who are not acquainted with 

 the art of grafting and understand it not. Therefore I am 

 certain that in the western part of the world this art (of pro- 

 ducing oranges from lemons) had at no time been practised. 

 Equally in Mauritania and Guinea, as in West India, and its 

 islands, all the forests of these oranges occur growing spon- 

 taneously, and germinated there by their own natural power. 

 These Eastern fruits, however, although they may differ 

 somewhat from those in the West, as we shall show in the 

 following pages, are divided into acid and sweet kinds. 



" Therefore to begin with, acid oranges, commonly called 

 Lemoen Itam, grow into tall trees, the trunks of which are 

 rather thick, not round, but angular, and divided by furrows. 

 The tree has many branches, and the leaves, after the 

 pummelo, are the largest. The cordate part is small com- 

 pared with that of others. The whole leaf, however, is 4 or 

 5 inches long, of which the cordate part is of the size of the 

 width of one's finger, and very narrow. At the edge, the 

 leaves are almost non-serrate and acuminate. They are 

 smoother and of a darker green than in the foregoing kinds. 

 They are distinguished by strong and sinuous transverse 

 nerves, and if crushed they emit a strong sulphurous* scent. 

 The spines are longer than in any other kind, and of the 



* The scent of the Seville orange leaf, which this appears to be, is 

 " sui generis/' strong and aromatic. 



