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13 . AURANTIACEiK. 
ttt4. C. nobilis Lour. 
Unarmed ; petioles simple or narrowly marginate not winged ; 
1. lanceolate or elliptic acuminate mostly quite entire ; fl. pure 
white ; fr. much depressed and concave at the poles ; rind soft 
not at all bitter or acrid, easily separating from the sweet high- 
coloured pulp. — Lour. Fl. Coch. 466 ; DC. i. 540. C. Aurantium 
var. Mandarinum Risso i. 378. Var. 
(3. tangerina ; Engl. Tangerine Orange ; Port. Laranja Tan- 
gerina. 
A dwarfish shr. of delicate habit and foliage with slender 
crowded branches forming a loose light head ; fr. small remark- 
ably concave or umbilicate at the poles with the axis very short, 
more or less strongly torulose or ribbed at the base, rind very 
thin. — C. nobilis 8 minor Bot. Beg. t. 211. Shr. per. Mad. reg. 1 ; 
cult. ■£. Gardens in and about Funchal chiefly; introd. from 
Lisbon. Fl. March-May. Fr. Dec.-Febr. — A small elegant 
dwarf shr. not above 4 or 5 ft. high of a delicate habit with 
small 1. and fl. slender graceful tressy branches and light-gr. 
foliage. L. narrow, acuminate, the tip retuse. Fl. in all stages 
pure white small and delicate highly fragrant 2-3 in a cluster, 
subternate ; pet. dotted with gr. ; stam. 15, in 4 or 5 sets. Fr. 
rather small 1|— 2 in. diam., axis not more than half the trans- 
verse diam., deeply hollow at the poles, usually ribbed like a 
melon at the base, the ribs disappearing upwards ; deep red-lead 
colour with a somewhat rank strong fragrance like common 
Orange-flowers and Bergamot ( Monarda Jistulosa L.). Bind 
singularly thin and fragile, separating cleanly and very easily 
from the pulp, of a tender almost granular substance, and with- 
out the usual leathery or spongy inner lining, abounding with 
volatile oil and coarsely dotted with large conspicuous oil-glands. 
Pulp composed of rather large sacs or vesicles, deep full orange 
or red-lead colour, sweet but neither very juicy nor high-fla- 
voured, though highly fragrant and much esteemed by many 
for its Bergamot-like aroma, and still more perhaps for its 
elegance, the cells or carpels, which are very small narrow 
and numerous, often 10-12, being separable as neatly and easily 
from each other as from the rind. In the middle of the fr. is a 
large vacant space left bv the recession of the edges of the carp., 
and only partly filled with soft white cottony fibres. Seeds nu- 
merous and large; cot. greenish, not white as usual. — Raised 
from seeds it maintains constantly and steadily its peculiar 
characters. Grafted on a common Orange (C. Aurantium a.) 
stock, it becomes altogether larger (15 ft. high) and more 
robust, with rather darker foliage and larger fr., remaining other- 
wise; unchanged. For use, this is the best mode of treatment ; 
for seedling pi. are not only longer in coming into bearing, but 
their fr. is smaller, and the crop is more scanty and precarious. 
