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colour, and the name of Pomi aurei. By the Javanese it is 

 called Djerroc Leeki ; in Macassar, Lemo Songalea, that is, 

 Chinese lemons ; but in Amboyna they are called Massussu, 

 and by the Chinese, Tyng-Cam. 



"Some Romans attributed to Palladio the honour and glory 

 of first introducing into Italy the Asiatic citrons and lemons. 



" This is very true of those fruits, but by no means true of 

 the oranges, as the name of Hesperium Pomum amply shows 

 that it came from the western parts of the world. The 

 oriental, and especially these Indian oranges, do not differ 

 in the least from the Spanish or occidental oranges, either in 

 foliage or green colour of the fruit.* It is easy to see that 

 neither the western oranges were propagated from the 

 eastern, nor the eastern from the western ; and much less 

 so were both of these produced artificially by grafting from 

 citrons. 



" They are found in almost all these oriental islands, from 

 Java, Celebes, and the Moluccas, to Amboina. 



" Many eat them raw on hot days to revive the stomach, 

 but they act best on an empty stomach. The Chinese, in their 

 own country, have very elegant round oranges of the second 

 variety, which are smaller than the common kind. These 

 they preserve whole in sugar, by making fissures in them, 

 and flattening them into the form of large discs. In these 

 little or no bitterness can be detected. They fill jars with 

 them, and export them to other places. The Chinese in- 

 habitants of Java preserve them in a similar manner, but, 

 they do not know how to cover them so elegantly with sugar 

 as they do in China. The Chinese also send these same 

 oranges, wholly dry, wrapped in paper, to other countries ; 

 they are very grateful to the sick." ( Vide pi. 1 16, (A) figs, a, b t 

 c, and d, of Atlas ; also, pi. 93, fig. ft which are the same.) 



Observation. 



This tree is called Mains aurantia sinensis by Jon stone, 

 in Dendrol., p. 26, and in Sloan, Catal. pi. Jam., p. 211 ; and 

 Aurantium sinense by Ferr. in Hesper., p. 430. It is that 

 which is called Malus aurantia humilis by Casp. Bauh. in 



* It is probable that Rumphius had not noticed the difference between 

 the Portugal orange and the suntara type of orange. 



