Jfalantia.] 



21. TlUTACEiR. 



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Western Peninsula from the Konkan to Ceylon. A large shrub or small 

 tree, common in some of the N. Kanara forests ; gregarious in the 

 evergreen forests near the Ainshi Ghat. Flowers in the cold season 

 from Nov. Fruit ripe in April. Fruit globose, size of a cherry, deeply 

 pitted, pedicels -i in. 



3. A. ceylanioa, Oliv. in Jour. Linn. Soc. Y. Suppl. II. 25 ; FI. Br* 

 I. 1. 512 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 46. 



Western Peninsula from the Konkan southwards, Nilghiris, Ceylon 

 and Malacca. A large spinescent shrub, common in the N. Kjlnara and 

 Belgaum evergreen ghat forests. Flowers during the cold and hot 

 seasons. Fruit hot and rainy seasons. The larger leaves and fruits, 

 the longer and more slender spines and some slight differences in the 

 flowers, separate this species from A. racemosay TF. A. 



13. CITRUS, Linn. 



Evergreen spinous shrubs or trees. Leaves simple^, 1-foliate 

 coriaceous ; petiole often winged. Flowers white or tinged with red* 

 sweet scented. Calyx cup-shaped, 4-5 cleft. Petals 4-5, thick, with, 

 glandular dots ; imbricate in bud. Stamens 20-60 ; filaments more 

 or less connate. Ovary many-celled on a large annular or cup-shaped 

 disk ; style terete, deciduous with a capitate, lobed stigma ; ovules 

 axile, biseriate, 4-8 in each cell. Berry globose^ fleshy, many-celled, 

 with membranous septa filled with fusiform, distended vesicles. Seeds 

 few in each cell ; testa leathery ; albumen ; embryo straight ; 

 radicle short ; cotyledons thicks fleshy, oily, often unequal ; often 2-3 

 embryos in one seed. 



All parts glabrous. Fruit vesicles concrete. 



Petals coloured. Flowers often unisexual . . 1. C. medica. 

 Petals white. Flowers bisexual 2. G. Aurantium, 



Young shoots and nerves of leaves beneath pubes- 

 cent. Fruit vesicles distinct 3. C. decumana. 



1. G. medica, Linn. ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 514; Brandis For. Fl. 52; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 13, Citron, Lemon, Sour Lime, Sweet Lime. 

 Nimhu, mitlia nimbu, hijapara, mahalunga, hijori, Vem. 



Universally cultivated in tropical and sub-tropical regions. 



For a full account of the origin of the cultivated oranges and lemons 

 see DeCandoUe's Origin of Cultivated Plants, pp. 3 76 — 188. 



2. a Aurantium, Unn.', Fl. Br. I. 1. 515; Brandis For. Fl. 63; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 12, Sweet Orange. Narangi, H. Culti- 

 vated in the Deccan. 



3. a decumana, L. ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 516 ; Brandis For. Fl. 55; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 12. Shaddock, Pumelo. Indigenous in Java. 

 Cultivated throughout the Presidency. The fruit arrives at great per- 

 fection along the coast of North Kdnara and Konkan. 



