( 12 ) 



3-celled, a rather handsome tree of robust habit. Gardens Da- 

 poorie and Hewra. 



3. Triumfetta Baeteamii, Linn. sp. 638. — We insert this as 

 the produce of Calcutta seed. Itnowgrows at Dapoorie, but is 

 yet too immature to enable us to solve the doubt which continues to 

 hang over this plant, viz. as to whether it be a Urena or a Trium- 

 fetta {videDon's si^st. 1, p 54). 



XVI.— AURANTIACE^, DC. Prod. 1, p 535. 



THE ORANGE TRIBE, Lind. Nat. Syst., p 123. 



TRIPHASIA, W. and A., Hexandria Monogynia. From tripha- 

 sios, in allusion to the tricleft calyx. 



1. T Trifoliata, W. and A. 323; Bot. Rep. t. 123; Citrus 

 Parva Dulcis, Sonnerat It. t. 63. — An ornamental shining-leaved 

 shrub, common in gardens. It is a native' of China, and is 

 not found in Southern Concan, as erroneously stated in the 1st 

 edition. 



MURRAYA, Decandria Monogynia. Called from Murray, 

 Professor of Botany at Gbttingen. 



2. M Exotica, W. and A. 335.— "Koontee" (?). We have never 

 heard this name. Wight Ic. No. 6, t. 96. 



3. Camunium Chinense, Rumph. Arab. t. 18,/. 2. — A pretty 

 shrub, with white fragrant flowers. Native of China. Dr. Royle 

 remarked that it is found all along the jungly forest below the 

 Himalayas. 



COOKIA, Decandria Monogynia. Named from Captain Cook, 

 the celebrated voyager. 



4. C Punctata, Rumph. Amb. 1, «. 55; W. and A. 338.— 

 " Wampee," Chinese. Found in gardens, Bombay (?), also at 

 Hewra and Dapoorie, Deccan. A Chinese tree ; fruit the size of 

 a marble ; pleasantly acid for tarts and preserves. 



CITRUS, Polydelphia Polyandria. Origin of name unknown. 

 Lam. t. 639; Gaert. t 121. 



5. C Decumana, W. and A. 343 ; Rumph. Amb. 2, t. 24.— 

 " Pamplenoose," Shaddock. Native of Eastern Islands ; now most 

 successfully cultivated in Bombay, at Goa, and in some of the 

 Soonda Ghaut gardens south of it, as at Woolvee; rinrl of the fruit 

 is so good a bitter, that by many druggists it is made to supply the 

 place of the inore expensive Gentian root for Tinct. Caveat Emptor !' 



6. C AuRANTiUM, W. and A. 3-13. — This choice fruit is now 

 found as a common article of cultivation in gardens at Poona, 

 Ahmed nuggur, Aurungabad, and Kunhur. The Kunhur Oranges 

 bear the palm as to size, juiciness, and flavour; does not succeed 



