PLATE OCXXIV, 



a and 6 is another doable lemon, which I also got from an English shop. It also came 

 from Palermo. I give it here, because it also shows the amalgamation of the two 

 centres, producing one elongated centre. This specimen had many perfect seeds, and, 

 therefore, this fasciation of the two ovaries might possibly be reproduced through the 

 seeds, and by selection fixed into a large citrus variety, as in Plates LXXIL and 

 LX XXIII. A double fruit would naturally take the fancy of Orientals; they have 

 their own game of Philippine, and, if they obtained seeds, they would almost surely 

 sow them, to obtain a continuance of this doubleness. I think it probable that many 

 large kinds of citrus may have originated in this way, and by selection perfected, so 

 as to lose all trace of their double origin. 



c, d, and e are the leaves and spines of a wild citrus, found by Mr. Duthie, "growing in the 

 Sarjoo Valley; elevation, 2 to 8,000 feet. It had all the appearance of wildness, there 

 being no villages anywhere. There was a small stream, beside which it was growing, 

 and by which the seed was most likely conveyed from some village above." Ranikhet, 

 9th September, 1886. (Vide Webster's lemon, Plate CC.) 



