PLATE XL VI 



Other specimens of the Malta orange type. 



a and b are called the Suez orange, by Mr. C. Nickels, of the Passewa factory, Jaunpore. 

 He obtained the fruit in Suez, and from their seeds grew this specimen at his 

 factory. I received it on the 30th January. It was of a bright orange colour, 

 evidently ripened on the tree; smooth and only slightly foveolate. When cut the 

 perfume of the fruit is distinctive, and that of the Malta orange type. Pulp of a 

 deeper orange than others of this type grown in India, and as deep as that of the 

 Zanzibar orange ; juice abundant, and of a delicious, sweet, and sub-acid flavour. It 

 is one of the best oranges of this type which I have tasted in India. The pithy 

 part of the skin was of a yellowish- white ; the rind only aromatic, scarcely bitter 

 or pungent, 



c is a rain leaf, well developed, and d a spring leaf. 



' is an orange of this type which I obtained on the SS. Chunda (B. I. S. N. Co.), said to 

 have been purchased at Madras about five or six weeks before. It had a thin skin, 

 abundant sweet juice, and many seeds, with a solid centre. It was of the Malta type. 



