CITRUS. 
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y. acida ; Engl, the W. I. Lime ; Port. Limao de Gallinha. 
Habit of a and /3 ; fr. small globose even, mamillated, pale y . ; 
rind thin, pulp very acid. — C. acida Roxb. C. medica var. 2, 
C. Limon Lour. ii. 465. — Small tree or sbr. Mad. reg. 1, 
cult. rrr. In one or two gardens at Funchal. — Fr. 1-1^ in. 
diam. 
C. Peretta Risso i. 418 seems to differ from this only in its 
pear-shaped fr. 
ttt 3. C. Aurantium L. 
Arboreous armed or thorny ; branches close crowded form- 
ing usually a compact round bushy head; petioles broadly 
winged ; 1. ovate-oblong or elliptic acute or acuminate ; fl. nu- 
merous in thick clusters subracemose pure white ; fr. globose 
more or less flattened at the poles ; rind soft more or less acrid 
or bitter adhering to the more or less high-coloured pulp. — 
Desf. ii. 215 ; Brot. ii. 282. C. Aurantium and C. vulgaris DC. 
i. 539 ; Presl 188. C. Aurantium and C. Bigaradia Risso Hist, 
i. 349 and 378. — Principal Madeiran varr. : 
a. aurea\ Engl. Orange or common Orangey Port. Laranja 
(the tr. Laranjeira ); Fr. and Germ. Orangey Ital. Aranda or 
Melarancia ; Sicil. Arandu. 
A tree 20-40 ft. high with thick very dark-gr. foliage ; fr. 
flattened at the poles golden or reddish-y. ; rind even, mostly 
thickish, rather bitter, pulp sweet. — C. Aurantium Lour, ii. 
466 ; DC., Presl, Risso, 11. cc. — Tr. per. Mad. reg. 1, 2, cult, ccc ; 
PS. reg. 1, 2, rr. In gardens in Madeira everywhere ; in the 
north often attaining a height of 60 ft. Fl. Febr.-April. Fr. 
Aug.-April. — The oranges of the north of the island (Santa 
Anna, S. Jorge, S. Vicente, Porto da Cruz, &c.), and of these 
more particularly a sort called Laranja de embigo, are much 
better than those of the south, and are less infested with the 
maggots or larvae of the destructive Orange -fly ( Ceratitis citri- 
perda Macl. Zool. Joum. iv. 482. t. 15) and other Tephritidan 
or cognate Diptera. — Several subvarieties and monstrosities are 
cultivated occasionally, such as the Shaddock (C. decumana~Li), 
the Maltese, St. Michael, the Double orange, the Forbidden 
fruit, &c. 
/3. Bigaradia ; Engl. Seville or Bitter Orange ; Port. Laranja 
azeda ; Fr. Bigarade ; Germ. Pomeranze. 
A tr. 20-30 ft. high ; fr. as in a, but with a very bitter rind 
and pulp. — C. vulgaris DC., Presl, 11. cc. ; C. Bigaradia Risso 
1. c. — Tr. per. Mad. reg. 1, 2 ; cult. c. Gardens and vineyards 
here and there general, but much less abundant than a. Fl. 
April, May. Fr. Jan., Febr. — Fr. used for making marmalade 
and vinegar ; sold very cheap, often at 20 d. per hundred. 
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