PLATE OLXXXIII. 



Specimens of the Malta lemon type, received through Mr. R. Blechynden, Sec. A.H.S. of 

 India, and grown in Mr. Stalkartt's garden at Goosery. 



o, c, d are forms usual in the Malta lemon. They came in July, and were ripe. Therefore, 

 they are probably of the Dumrez crop. Mr. Stalkartt states those of the spring 

 crop are rougher. 



b is the section of a ; e is a typical spring leaf ; / and g, other spring leaves ; h is the spine 

 of the branch that came with them. 



I at first thought this stock may have been obtained from Lucknow ; but it is 

 not so. Mr. Stalkartt vouches for the trees having been in his garden since he 

 came to India, in 1833. Mr. Blechynden thinks it probable that the old plants 

 in the Society's garden may have been obtained from him. He adds that Firminger 

 alludes to this lemon, and thinks it the "common Spanish," and gives Korna neeboo 

 as the native name. And that, in the Hortus Bengalensis of Roxburgh, published 

 in 1814, the Korna neeboo is given as the Citrus medica, " common lemon," and the 

 date of its introduction into the Botanic Garden is given as 1796. The Goosery 

 lemon trees are not improbably some of its descendants. All the characters of the 

 Goosery lemon are those of the Malta or Spanish lemon. Nevertheless, it may be 

 also an improved form of the Assam lemon, Joratenga (?). (Vide Plate CCXXXIX., 

 fig. a.) The Goosery lemon just floats in water. 



