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vate or irregularly globose, the size of a citroon or larger, very 
uneven and warty, almost juiceless, with a thick yellow skin. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the Martaban hills east 
of Sittang; also on the hills of Upper Tenasserim. Often cultivated in native 
gardens.—s.—SS.—= Metam ? 
8. C. aurantium, L.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 515; Brand. For. Fi. 
53.—An evergreen tree (25—30+8—10 + 3—4), armed with short 
straight axillary spines, all parts glabrous ; leaves ovate- to oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate, 23-33 in. long, crenate-toothed or almost 
entire, glabrous; petiole 4-6 lin. long, narrowly winged; flowers 
rather large, by 2 or more in the axils of the leaves, white, = 
ed, with a 
skin usually easily separable, the cells filled with vesicu- 
lar sweet, btiter, or acid pulp. 
Has.—Rarely cultivated in villages.—Fr. C8. 
4. C. medica, L.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 514; Brand. For. Fl. 51.— 
Shouk-ta-kwah.—A large much-branched evergreen shrub or small 
tree, usually much armed with shorter or longer axillary straight 
thorns often longer than the petioles, all parts glabrous; leaves oblong 
er sometimes obovate, blunt or acute, variable in size, but usually 2-4 
in. , more or less crenate, glabrous, the petioles very short and 
slender, not or slightly winged or bordered ; flowers large, white, 
usually tinged with purple, usually by 2 or rarely by 3 or solitary 
in the axils of the leaves, on a very short and often quite reduced 
peduncle ; petals 5, oval-oblong, 8-10 in. long ; stamens about 30-50, 
the filaments free or polyadelphous ; ey with a long thick style ; 
_ berries obovoid or oblong, termina yy a knob, with a coarse 
wrinkled citroon-coloured skin, the vesicular pulp greenish or yellow- 
ish, acid. ; 
Has.—Cultivated in villages —Fl. H.S.; Fr. R.S.—SS.=Sis. 
REMARKSs.—Wood rather heavy, fibrous, but close-grained, soft, white. 
5. Cc. nobilis, £ ALS FI 
515).—A small slender pee aon tree, 15 to 25 ft. high, rarely a 
shrub, more or less armed with very small axillary straight thorns, 
rous; leaves small, oblong, or elliptically oblong to 
all ab: 
oval and sbiosg-tieabeclals, about 2-4 in. long, acute or blunt, more 
or less erenate, glabrous, the petiole rather short, but slender, very : 
