SIMARUBEA. 307 
the Kaggi- ree or “long small Lime”; the latter is 
especially used. 
A bush. Hong Nimbu. The Indian Lime. 
289. Cirrus Aurantium Linn.; F. I. iii. 8392; F. B. I. i. 515; 
D.C: 1282. 
Cultivated, but only thrives well in the western parts. 
A small tree. The Bengali name seems to show that the 
earliest knowledge the habiives of Bengal possessed of the 
Orange was derived from the kingdom of Comilla to the 
east and not from tion India. Beng. Kamila-nimbu ; 
Hind, Narangi. The Orange. 
290. Crrrus pecumana Linn.; F. I. iii. 393 5 F. B. I. i. 516; 
E. D. 
Cultivated + very largely. 
tree. The Bengali name here again indicates pretty 
clearly that the first knowledge of the fruit in our area 
was derived from the Malay Islands. Beng. Batavi- 
nimbu. The Shaddock 
Order XXXI, SIMARUBEZ. 
Trees or shrubs, bark almost always bitter. Leaves alternate, 
ehiag ~ agit rarely simple, often very large; stipules 
deciduous or 0, Flox wers regular, small, 1- sexual or polygamous, 
rarely oe axillary. Disk annular or elongated, simple 
or lobed, rarely 0. Sepals united in a 8-5-lobed calyx, lobes 
valvate or imbricate. Petals 3-5, very rarely 0, hypogynous, 
valvate or imbricate. Stamens as many or twice as many as 
it rarely numerous ; filaments inserted at base of disk, free 
€n with a basal scale ; anthers 2-celled ; dehiscence ‘oreieanes 
Ie SEMPER Ree gees oe SPT hy Sic Gee Tee Ne gee piece eet.” Woe ee a a he ae ds ae ges al ka ia lc i eh es Si 
smooth, 1-6-celled ovary; styles 2-5, free or more or less uni en, 
ary 
each cell rarely more, anatropous with raphe ventral. Fruit 
usually of 2-6 separating indehiscent carpels, occasionally sama- 
toid, or dehiscent capsular, sometimes indehiscent drupaceous. 
Seed usually solitary, erect or pendulous; albumen fleshy, rarely 
Scanty or 0; embryo straight or curved. 
*Leayes oewaly pinnate ; calyx 5-fid ; ovary deeply lobed ; fruit of rs 
Samaras ; a lofty unarmed tree [p. 308]......--sesrre-srerrerseeret® Ailanthus. 
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