PLATE 00 XLIII 



a and b are a large pumelo-like variety of Bed (Mgle Marmelos) called Bara Bcel. The hard pithy 

 substance which occupies the whole interior of the fruit, is sweetish and aromatic, of 

 the colour of pale orange carrot. In the case of the Bcel fruit, this pithy matter has 

 forced itself between the pulp carpels squeezing and separating them, and invading 

 also the centre of the fruit. In fact, it is the principal part of the fruit. While in 

 the citrus, the pulp vesicles with their enclosing pod-membrane form the principal part 

 of the fruit. By their excessive growth, they have kept the pulp carpels close together, 

 and so have prevented the pith from invading the centre also. In the citrus, this 

 pithy substance could only grow externally by expanding the rind, and so creating the 

 thick skins of the pumelo, citron, and Kathairee nimboo, and others. 



e shows the interior of the gum-carpel, with its gum-cells, and the seed c', with its large placenta. 

 In October this Bcel was pale green, and might have become larger when ripe. It 

 was studded with oil-cells of two sizes, with intermediate white dots. 



