306 BENGAL PLANTS. 
147. Citrus Linn. 
Shrubs or trees, usually armed with spines; leaves 
1-foliolate, coriaceous, evergreen, petiole usually winged; sti 
Flowers axillary, solitary or in small cymes or panicles. 
cupular or urceolate, 3-5-fid. Petals 4-8, linear-oblong, thick 
cate. Stamens numerous (20-60), inserted outside the large 
ed, 
septa; cells few-seeded and filled with transverse fusiform 
cells. Seeds horizontal or pendulous ; testa coriaceous of 
branous; albumen 0; embryo with large fleshy cotyledons. — 
Young shoots glabrous ; leaflet glabrou 
Twigs purple ; flowers pinkish, often a weetidt fruit with usu 
skin and mamillate ; juice subacid (typica) or very acid :— 
Leaflet ovate ; petiole distinct, margined or winged; fruit medion 
medica var. 
Leaflet ne oe petiole very short, linear or slightly oo 
fruit small is... medica var, 
Twigs peace white; flowers white, always hermaphrodite ; P if 
usually broadly winged ; fruit medium, with usually thin skin and 
mamillate Aue 
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Coeeesessecoes 
panne shoots and nerves of leaves beneath pubescent; flowers —_ 
ts large 
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288, Cirrus MEDICA Linn.; F. B. I. i. 514; E. D.C. 1270. y 
Trpica. C. medica, F. I. iii. 392 partly. 
Cultivated very sparingly. 
A ag tree. Beng. Beg-pura; Hind. Bijaurs- 
Citr 
288/2. Var. “won F B. I. i. 515; E. D, 0. 1286. ©. 
. lii, 892 
Pathe not en 
small tree, Beng. Karna-nimbu. The Lemon. 
288/3, be acipa Brandis; F. B. I. i. 515; E. D. © 
acida F. T. iii. 390. 
pee extensively in numerous forms, the tw . 
being the Pati-nimbu, or ‘ common round Lame 
