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Chittagong, the Western Ghats, and Satpura range in Central 

 India. 



A shrub or small tree, flowering and fruiting at most 

 seasons growing where, says J. D. Hooker, I found it on 

 steep hill-sides (in Sikkim). Young shoots glabrous, purple. 

 Leaflets glabrous, 3-Gin., elliptic ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; 

 petiole naked or winged. Flowers 6-10in., a raceme, small or 

 middle-side, often unisexual. Stamens 20-40 ; petals generally 

 more or less pink. Fruit globose, ovoid, or oblong, often mamil- 

 late at the apex. The stam'ens are 25-55, says Brandis. Brandis 

 found it, says he, (1) apparently wild in the outer valleys of 

 Kumaon (1875) ; {2) in the outer valleys of Sikkim (1879) ; 



(4) Damrahal, Garo Hills (1879), a tree of 6ft. girth, 40ft. high; 



(5) upper Yunzalim Valley above Lomatee, in swamps and near 

 streams (1880). Reported to be wild in the Eastern Dun, on 

 the Satpura Hills and the Western Ghats in the Bombay 

 Presidency (Talbot), Chitagong and on the Khasi Hills (H. K. 

 and W.). 



Of the more cultivated forms may be mentioned the 

 following four varieties :-— 



Var. 1 C. medica proper, the Citron. Var. II. C. Limo- 

 num, the Lemon. Var. III. 0. Acida, the sour lime of India. 

 Var. IV. O. Limetta, the Sweet Lime of India. 



Variety I. C. Medica proper, the Citron. Boxb. 590. Leaflet 

 oblong, petiole short, margined or not, flowers usually numerous ; 

 fruit larger oblong or ovoid, or irregularly shaped, mamilla 

 obtuse, rind usually wartecl, thick, tender; very aromatic, bitter, 

 scanty subacid pulp. 



Sans. : — Matulunga ; phala pura ; bega pura. 



Vern. : — Bijaura ; limbu ; Kutla ; baranimbu (H.); Beg-pura ; 

 lebu ; nebu ; bijaura; honsa nebu (B.); Bajauri nimbu (Pb).; 

 Bijoru; turanj ; balank (Guz.); Bijapura ; mahalunga ; bijori ; 

 binu (Roxb) ; Mahalung (M.) ; Turanj (Dec.) ; Elumich cham- 

 pazham ; narttam pazhain (Tarn.) ; Nimma pandu ; naradabba 

 (Tel.); Nimbe hanu ; limbu (Kan.) 



Pai'ts used : — The rind, pulp, seeds and leaves. 



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