PLATE OX VII, 



a and b is a true Mandarin orange, plucked at Etawah, in the unripe state in September. The 

 exterior is deep green, coarsely chagrined, and shiny, as if varnished. Pulp, when 

 unripe, is pale orange-yellow ; juice abundant, of a pleasant sweetish sub-acid. 



c is a typical rain leaf, decidedly and distantly serrated in its tip-half with spine ; d, e, and s 

 are spring leaves, apparently entire. A whole branch had leaves averaging from 

 g to h. 



On the same branch I found spines from ^ an inch long to less than inch, 



t is a myrtle leaf of the rainy season. A leaf of myrtle and one of Mandarin could scarcely 

 be distinguished by the eye. 



j, is taken from Risso's monograph. He called it "Bigaradier a feuilles de myrte." "It has 

 a shiny chagrined skin, sometimes larger than that pictured; pulp orange-yellow, 

 sweet and sub-acid." 



It appears to me not improbable that this Bigaradier of Riaso and the Mandarin 

 orange are identical. 



NOTE. In Andrew's Repository there is a picture of a Mandarin orange called C. nobilis. 

 It has immense leaves and very large flat fruit. If this be a true Mandarin, climate and culture 

 have made a great change, both in its leaf and fruit 



