PLATE L . 



Malta blood orange, from the Horticultural Garden, Lucknow. 



a and b is a large, thick-skinned specimen, deeply foveolate, and coarsely chagrined. Pulp 

 orange, streaked occasionally with blood colour ; juice not abundant, and without much 

 flavour ; seeds white when cut. 



c and d is a smoother and thinner skinned -specimen, of an orange exterior, and only foveolate. 

 Pulp pale orange, streaked with blood colour. The flavour of the Malta type of 

 orange is sai generis, and different from the flavour of the Suntara orange type. 

 This was imported from Malta in 1863 ; it never showed in Lucknow more blood 

 colour than mere streaks, showing probably something was wanting either in the 

 soil or mode of cultivation. It may be also that the trees sent were not of the 

 full-blooded variety. 



f is a rain leaf, and / and g are spring leaves. The scent of the Malta orange leaf is feeble, 

 and different from that of the Seville, and of the Suntara type. 



