Appendix. 339 



No. 47. 



Mr. R. Blechynden, Junior Secretary to the A. H. S. of 

 India, kindly sent me the following information. He thinks 

 that Comilla, or Kumilla, the capital of Tipperah, the district 

 near Dacca, on the east and south of Mymensingh and 

 Sylhet, is close enough to the Khasia hills to make the 

 suggestion, that oranges may be found wild there, plausible. 

 He, however, adds that Dr. Hunter, in his statistical account 

 of Bengal, says that the Pati nebu and limes are products of 

 Tipperah, but oranges are not common. 



(NOTE. I have a suspicion that neither kamla nor suntara, 

 are names of Indian origin, but probably take their origin 

 from the Chinese Kam and Seng?) 



Mr. Blechynden further says that " from the few words 

 with which Roxburgh, in his ' Flora Indica/ dismisses the 

 subject of oranges, it would appear that they were very 

 little known in Calcutta in his time." He says : " As they 

 do not thrive in any part where I have been stationed, I 

 cannot well enter into any satisfactory account of them.'' 

 Yet, in the " Hortus Bengalensis," it is stated that plants were 

 in the Botanic Garden (Seebpore) before 1794, and that they 

 were introduced from Sylhet. 



In Robinson's Assam (1841) the native names for different 

 kinds of citrus are given ; they are many, divided into acid 

 and sweet limes, sub-acid and bitter lemons. He also gives 

 two shaddocks, three citrons, and three oranges. (Vide 

 Appendix, No. 54.) 



No. 48. 

 Dr. Maglieris decoction of lemon. 



Cut a lemon into thin slices, peel and all ; add three 

 breakfast-cups of water, and boil on a slow fire, and in a 



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