268 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



elimichura pullam (Tam.); Nimma-pandu ; nemmapundii (Tel.) 

 Nimbe hannu (Kan.). 



Habitat : — Wild in the warm valleys of the outer Hima- 

 layas. Cultivated all over India. 



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. 



Part used : — The juice. 



Use : — Native practitioners consider lime-juice to have 

 virtues in checking bilious vomiting, and believe that it is 

 powerfully refrigerant and antiseptic (Ainslie.) 



Fresh lime-juice often proves effectual in relieving the irri- 

 tation and swelling caused by mosquito-bites (Dr. Thornton 

 in Watt's Dictionary.) 



Var. IV. C. limetta, B.C. h.f.b.l, i. 515. 



Sans. : — Madhu Karkatika. 



Vern. :— Mitha nebu ; nembu ; mitha amritphal (H.); Mitha 

 nebu(B); Mitha-nimbu (Pb.); Mitha limbu (Guz.); elemitcuhm 

 (Tam. ; Nemma-pandu ; gajanimma 'Tel.). Eriimitchi narracum 

 (Mai.). Sakar-Nimbu (Marathi ; Bombay}. 



Habitat: — Cultivated in most parts of India. 



Leaves and flowers as in Var. acida ; fruit globose, 3-5in, 

 diam., rind very thin, smooth, adherent'to the pulp. Flowers pure 

 white, at times tinged pink. The pulp is never acid, even in 

 early stages of the fruit. Juice sweet, abundant, refreshing, " not 

 aromatic," say Brandis and Hooker. I find it slightly aromatic 

 with the faint flavour of the rose as grown in the Bombay and 

 Dekkan gardens. (K. R. K.). 



Use : — Extensively used as refrigerant in fever and jaundice 

 (Watt). 



238. 0. aurantium, Linn, h.f.b.l, i. 515, 



Habitat : — Hot valleys along the foot of the Himalaya and 

 from Garwhal eastwards to Sikkim and in the Khasia Mountains ; 

 Manipur; mountain forests in the Peninsula. 



