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0 RANGE TREE. 
(L’Oranger, Fr.) 
Natural Order , Aurantiaceje, (Correa.) Linncean Classi- 
fication , POLYANDRIA M9NOGYNIA. 
CITRUS * (Linn.) 
Calyx 5-cleft, persistent. Petals 5 or more, oblong, spreading. Stamens , 
filaments about 20 to 60, forming a cylinder and disposed in several 
sets. Germ superior, style cylindrical with a capitate stigma. Berry 
many-celled, inclosed by a fleshy glandular rind, the cells 9 to 18, sepa- 
rated from each other by membranous envelopes, pulp watery, contained 
in numerous utricular vesicles. Seeds oblong, attached to the inner 
angle of the cell, albumen none. Pmbryo straight, the seed leaves or 
cotyledones large and thick, often more than 2. 
Trees or shrubs of tropical or mild climates, chiefly indigenous to 
eastern Asia, India, and China, with a single species in Guiana, (tropical 
America.) Leaves alternate, solitary, articulated to the summit of a 
petiole which is usually margined or alated, the axils of the leaves, in the 
uncultivated state, usually produce simple spines. 
* Derived from Ktrpioc, the Lemon, and airptov, the Citron, which among 
the Greeks and Romans included also the Cedar or some similar tree, 
which they probably associated from the fragrance of its wood. 
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