350 Appendix. 



and bulging out the circumference of the carpel also, on 

 both sides of the mid-ribs, c, c, as well as tearing open some 

 of the carpels. 



PL 72, fig. c, shows an instance in which the attachment 

 of the juice-vesicles was not only on the circumference 

 portion of the carpel, but half way up its sides to B, B. 



PL 1 06, fig. c, shows the usual attachment of the vesicles 

 on the outer wall cf, while the two sides, which have gradually 

 stretched like India-rubber membranes, are free of vesicles. 



As will be seen in the suntara group, one of the characters 

 of this variety is a hollow centre, when the fruit reaches 

 maturity. 



In pis. 125, e and 126, b, is shown another effect of ex- 

 pansion. At a certain period of maturity, and after the pulp 

 carpels have been dragged from the central column, their 

 expansion is arrested, while that of the skin or rind goes on, 

 so that the latter is also dragged away from the pulp carpels, 

 leaving a hollow space between the pulp-ball and the skin. 

 These oranges have a curious puffy feel, and the pulp-ball 

 rattles within them. 



No. 63. 



In the British Museum, Assyrian Court, Nimroud, among 

 the basso-relievos with cuneiform inscriptions, are Nos. 2, 21, 

 23, 24, 25, 29, 33, 34, 38 and 39. In these occur figures, 

 making what have been called "mystic offerings." In all 

 cases the figure has a basket in one hand, and in the other 

 something like a large pine cone. This appears to be rather 

 a citron than a fir-cone, as has been supposed. In one case 

 the mammilla of the citron at the apex is clearly traced. The 

 sculptor has shown the warts of the citron as uniform, much 

 as he has shown the curls of the hair as a series of uniform 

 nodules. These basso-relievos are put down as contemporary 

 with the reign of Assur-na-sir-pal, about 880 B.C. Probably 

 the Jews may have obtained the idea of using the citron in 

 some of their religious ceremonies from the Assyrians during 

 their captivity in Babylon. The citron appears to have been 



