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 pink flowers 1 in, long, narrowly ellipsoid, rough fruit 7 in. 

 long, of which the upi)er 2 in, are contracted into a long 

 conical mamilla, the rind is very thick, and the pulp pale 

 yellow. The petals pass into stamens, which would suggest 

 its not being indigenous, iDut Hooker did not doutt its being 

 so when he gathered it , mainly on dry sunny slopes totally 

 unsuited for any kind of cultivation, whei-e it formed large 

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Varieties 



Variety 1, Medica proper ; leaflet oblong ; petiole 

 short, margined or not ; flowers usually numerous, fruit large , 

 oblong or obovoid, mamilla obtuse, rind usually warted , thick , 

 tender, aromatic, pulp scanty subacid--the citron (Bengali- 

 Jainbir); origin India, cultivated for more than two thousand 

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Variety 2, Limonura j leaflet ovate, petiole margined or 

 winged, fruit middle sized ovoid yellow, mamillate, rind thin, 

 pulp abundant, acid--the lemon (Bengali-Sora lemboo)-: origin 

 India, cultivated for more than two thousand years. 



Variety 3. Acida ; leaflet elliptic oblong, petiole many 

 times shorter than the leaflet, linear or obovate, racemes 

 short, flowers small, petals usually 4, fruit usually small 

 globose or ovoid, with a thick or thin rind, pulp pale, sharply 

 acid. The large fruited sorts of this appear to assume 

 the form of the citron, and the small to approach the West 

 Indian lime , which is however described as a bus h with 



