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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The Poetugal Orange Group. 
The Portugal Orange, of which the British markets are now full, with 
its variations, the seedless oval Orange of Malta, and the oval Orange of 
Jaffa, also seedless, and the Blood Orange, &c., are sufficiently well known 
to need no description. 
I am informed that in Malta there exists a unique Orange of the same 
group, but which is never sour from beginning to end, but sweet and 
juicy. It is called there " Loomi-Larenj." I have never met with an 
Orange of this description in India. It would be worth while getting 
hold of it for the purpose of multiplying it and bringing it into commerce. 
Such a unique Orange, I believe, has never appeared in the English 
market. 
In India I met with two varieties of this group ; both are fine and 
worthy of being more generally known. The one is the "Bandir"of 
Tanjore, a large Orange, 12 in. in girth or so, with a yellowish-orange 
skin when ripe. The other is the " Mussembi " of Poona. Its name is 
evidently a corruption of Mozambique, and it goes to the Bombay market. 
The exterior is orange-yellow, and is covered with longitudinal furrows 
from base to tip. Natives say this can be kept on the tree for a whole 
year without deteriorating. 
The Suntara Group of India. 
The loose-skinned " Suntara " Orange of India, as far as I know, has 
only appeared once in the London shops. There is a considerable trade 
in this Orange in India itself. 
There are two widely spread varieties of it. The one is called 
" Nagpore " Orange, some of which find their way to Bombay. It is this, 
I believe, which, on one occasion, was sent to London. 
The other is the " Sylhet " Orange, which mainly goes to Calcutta, 
and is grown solely from seed. 
The fruit of the two differs little, but the tree of the former has a 
spreading form ; while that of the latter is upright, somewhat in the 
fashion of a Lombardy Poplar, although, of course, not so tall by any 
means. 
There are other good varieties of this group which are little known. 
One is grown in Lahore, the fruit of which is distinctly pyriform (see 
Oranges and LemoJis of India and Ceylon, Plate cix.). It is wrongly called 
' Kama ' in Lahore. Another is the ' Jawa-narun ' of Ceylon, resembling 
a purse with a much-puckered surface. 
A still more interesting variety is the green Orange of Ceylon, called 
there ' Konda-narun.' It is invariably eaten in its green state. Eum- 
phius mentions an Orange which is green when quite mature, and if left 
on the tree till it colours becomes, he says, worthless. But in an experi- 
ment which I made with these green Oranges in 1884, I found them 
better flavoured and more juicy as they turned yellow. 
Both the ' J{\wa-narun ' and the green ' Konda-narun ' are pictured in 
Miss North's Gallery at Kew, No. 266. 
In Ceylon, a number of the varieties-of the ' Suntara ' group are called 
