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SEVILLE ORANGE. 



Family: HESPER\D\AE.[Translator's note: now Rutaceae.] 

 Reproductive system: POLYADELPHY, ICOSANDRY. 



The cultivated Seville orange tree, Citrus aurantium, LlNN., originally from India, 

 grows in open ground in several southern provinces of France and it appears to be 

 naturalized there. The trunk, about fifteen feet high, has limbs and branches that form a 

 rounded top. The leaves are alternate, persistent, oval-lanceolate, very entire, and 

 articulated on their petiole, which has a leaf-like wing. The flowers are white, fragrant, 

 and form clusters. The calyx is small with five lobes; the corolla has five oblong petals. 

 An unspecified number of stamens are joined at their filaments into two or more bundles 

 and insert between the calyx and a sort of platform supporting a free ovary that's crowned 

 with a style and a rounded stigma. The fruit is a round hesperidium; its rind contains a 

 very aromatic essential oil. It's divided by membranous partitions into several internal 

 compartments, each one of which contains several seeds. 



FLOWERS: in June, July, and sometimes during another part of the year. 



RANGE: the East Indies. 



NOMENCLATURE. German, der pomeranzenbaum, die pomeronze. Dutch, 

 orangeboom. Danish, pomeranstrcee. English, the orange tree. Italian, melarancino. 

 Portuguese, larangeira. Russian, pomeranzowoe derewo. Hungarian, narants. Arabic, 

 narendj hcelu. Proven9al, laurangie. 



USES. Everyone is familiar with the fragrance of its flowers and the delightful 

 sweet flavor of its fruit. One variety 



