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" The other variety of this orange is a little smaller and 

 smoother, depressed at both ends, more like the Spanish 

 orange, externally covered with minute foveoli, and with a 

 thin skin, thicker round the stalk. The skin is also easily 

 separated from the pulp, which is like that of the larger 

 variety. This orange becomes yellower when on the tree, 

 and, if kept for some time, becomes completely yellow, like 

 true oranges. These trees, in Amboyna, are not productive ; 

 at least, they do not fruit every year. The trees, moreover, 

 must be of full age before they bear fruit. They like the 

 plains, and full exposure to the sun. Those that grow on 

 the cold hills of Amboyna mature their fruit very slowly, 

 and are mostly acid. These same trees do not grow to a 

 very old age; they often give out an acid fluid, and exude 

 gum copiously. Then, for one or two years, they give a large 

 crop, which turns yellow on the tree, and afterwards the tree 

 dies. This evil can be somewhat prevented, but only for a 

 short time ; if, for instance, the tree be so perforated, as to 

 part with its superfluous sap. Others, on the contrary, drive 

 a strong iron nail into the trunk. 



" In Latin it is called Aurantium sinense. In Belgian, 

 Sinese appels. In Malay, Lemon Manis Tsjina, which name 

 is applied best to the last or smaller variety, since it grows 

 more frequently in China, and is preserved in sugar by the 

 Chinese, and sent everywhere. 



" Some, however, as has been stated, call these fruits sweet 

 oranges of Amboyna, especially the first kind, which is 

 mostly cultivated by the Amboinese on their hills. By the 

 Portuguese it is called Laranza ; and in Spanish, Naranza ; 

 but by the Indian Portuguese Limondoce. The true Latin 

 name of this kind is Malum aureum, and Hespericum, from 

 which some think that Pomttm aurantium, and the Italian, 

 Pomeransi, are derived. I, however, think that all these 

 names have had their origin from the new Greek word 

 vfpaiTiov, and this from the Arabic ncrang, or Persian naring 

 or naran, which word denotes this fruit ; and which, without 

 doubt, the western Arabs (CEthiopes) once introduced into 

 Spain, afterwards degenerating into Naranza. The new 

 Latins, however, being ignorant of the origin of its name, 

 call it Aurantium, which squares better with the golden 



