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PLATE DCVIII. 











CITRUS 



LI 





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Mandarin 



range 













CLASS XVIII. ORDER III. 



rOLYADELVIUA ICOSANDRIA. Many Sets of Chives. Threads from 









-fa 







the Caly 











GENERIC CHARACTER. 







Calyx 5-dendatus. Corolla 

 20 in cylindrum passii 



Stamina 

 Stylus 







1. Bacca 9 — 12-locularis, pulpS vesicu- 



Jari. 



Cup five-toothed. Petals five. Stamens about 

 twenty, generally united at the base. 

 Shaft 1. Fruit Q- to 12-celled, the pulp 









variously divided. 





SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 





Citrus petiolis sublinearibus, fructu lateseente 

 depresso. 





Citrus with nearly linear leafstalks -, the fruit 

 broad depressed. 







Citeus nobilis, inermis, ramis adscendentibus : petiolis strictis, fructu tuberculoso subcouipresso. 

 W* Lour. Flor. Cochinchin. 2. p. 56g} ,., • ,-■■■". 







REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 





1. The empalement. 



2. 



pointa 





tgnified 



m 



4. Seed-bud and pointal. 



5, A horizontal section of the fruit 









The drawing of this remarkable Orange, which has so long been a desideratum in this country, was 

 taken at Wormley-bury in the beginning of last May. The plant is a native of China, and Mr.' Ear- 

 row informs us, that he found the fruit very common when on his travels in that country, and in 

 much higher estimation than the common Orange by the Chinese, who call it Mandarin Orange (an- 

 wermg nearly to the English epithet of noble) by way of pre-eminence. The same gentleman also 



informs 



fore the more singular that it has been so long in reaching this country. 



Loure 

 Mandarin 



he inform, us, grows to a moderately sized tree, and particularly notices the superior excellence and 

 the depression of the fruit, whose common size is about five inches across. The plant at Sir Abraham 

 Hume • » as yet only about five feet in height, and was imported from Canton in 1805. 



stmguished from the common Orange 





between 



effort. 





























