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TH ALAMIFLOltiE. 
usually very distinctly marked. Embryo straight : 
cotyledons thick, fleshy : plumule conspicuous. — De 
Cand. and Lindl. 
Almost all the plants belonging to this tribe are natives of 
the East. Several species, however, have been very generally 
cultivated, and are now naturalized in different tropical coun- 
tries. The wood is universally hard ; all parts abound in a 
volatile fragrant oil ; and the pulp of the fruit is more or less 
acid. 
I. Triphasia. 
Flowers with the proportion of the parts ternary. 
Stamens 6, free, rarely 5 and then the fifth opposite 
to a petal larger than the rest. Anthers subsagittate. 
Fruit 3-celled, 3-seeded. Embryos several in each 
seed. — De Cand. 
1. Triphasia trifoliata. Three-leaved Triphasia. 
Leaves 3-foliate. 
Limonia trifoliata, Linn. mant. 237 Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 4G3. 
— T. trifoliata, De Cand. Prod. 1. 536. 
HAB. Cultivated. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
This is a very common slu-ub in our gardens. It generally 
receives the name of the Chinese lemon. The fruit is red and 
juicy, the size of a small gooseberry, of an oval shape, and of 
an insipid taste with an aromatic flavour, by no means palata- 
ble. It is furnished with straight axillary spines, and, were it 
not so slow in its growth, it might be employed to make a strong 
and beautiful fence. It is a native of China, Cochin-China, and 
India. 
II. Limonia. 
Flowers with the proportion of the parts quater- 
nary or quinary. Calyx 4-5-partite. Petals 4 - 5 . 
Stamens free, double the number of the petals, some- 
times equal. Fruit berried, pulpy, 4-5-cell ed : cells 
1 -seeded. — De Cand. 
Name, from li/moun, the general designation in Arabic for 
the orange tribe. 
1. Limonia citrifolia. Lemon-leaved Limonia. 
Leaves simple and trifoliate, leaflets ovato-oblong 
