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well in Bombay, which, however, receives large supplies of the 

 delicious orange of Mosambique from thence. 



The varieties of the Orange cultivated in Western India are: — 



\st. — The Mosambique, as now naturalised in India. 



27id. — The Cintra, of Portuguese origin, as the name denotes. 



3rd. — The China, or red, loose-skinned Orange. 



4th. — The Cowla, inferior to the above three. 



&th. — The small China, very delicate in frame, but dry. 



7. C LiMETTA, Risso. Ann. Mus. 20, p 1 95 ; Don's syst. 1 , p 

 5^9. — Sweet Lime. The original habitat of this it is difficult to 

 trace, us it has been so long cultivated in India ; is found in 

 gardens from Shikarpore to Ceylon ; insipid, but the young plants 

 afford the best grafting or budding stocks. 



8. C Behgamia. — Sour Lime ; much cultivated as a sales- 

 product in most native gardens. Eaten daily with salt as a 

 remedy in Spleen diseases, it is of the utmost importance. This 

 we state on repeated experience. 



9. C Medica, Risso. Ann. Ser. 20, p 199.— The Citron; fruit 

 coarse, but very valuable as an adjuvant to medical treatment 

 in low fevers. In Yucatan, where, owing to the limestone soil, bad 

 fevers are common, it is reckoned a specific. In Western India we 

 have not the art of forming the fingered Citron so common in China. 



10. C LiMONUM. — Portugal Lemon; cultivated at Dapoorie, 

 where it yields fruit of a fair size, and good flavour. We have thus 

 done our best to reduce into order and intelligibility this very 

 difficult genus, as it appears in India. We have not been fortunate 

 enough to meet with, or hear of, tlie Maloonga mentioned in p 25 

 of Graham's list, but information is solicited regarding it and any 

 other exotic varieties of the tribe which we may have overlooked. 



AGLAIA, Linn., Monadelphia Pentandria. The name of one 

 of the Graces expressive of beauty. 



11. A Odobata; Opilia Odorata, Spr. p 936; Roxb. Fl. — A 

 native of China ; leaves ternate and pinnate ; flowers in axillary 

 racemes, very small, yellow. In gardens, Bombay. 



XVII.— SAPINDACE^, DC. Prod. 1, p 601. 



NEPHELIUM, Octandria Monogynia. Old name of Burdock, 

 on account of the rough fruit. 



1. N LiTCHi, Roxb. FL 2, p 259. — Litchee Tree; native of 

 China, now common in gardens in Bombay ; dies off inland. 



2. Blighfa Sapida, Octandria Monogynia. — Akee Tree; 

 native of Africa; has pinnate shining leaves, bright-red pear-like 

 indifferent fruit. Parell and Dapoorie gardens ; fruit can only 

 be eaten fried, and is insipid. 



