AURANTIACEJE. 131 
Pampel-mces, Rumph. II. t. 24. f. 2 .— De Cand. Prod. I. 539. 
— Bot. Misc. I. 303. 
IIAB. Cultivated. 
FL. February — May. 
A tree 12-18 feet in height ; crown flat ; branches spreading, 
towards their extremities 3-gonal, anguloso-sulcated, and pu- 
berulous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 5-6 inches long, and 
2j-3 inches broad, pellucido-puactate, glabrous and shining 
above, and distinctly pubescent beneath and ciliated especially 
when young : alae of the petioles broad, crenulated, minutely 
ciliated. Spines usually awanting. Racemes subterminal, ax- 
illary, rather longer than the petiole, 3-9-flowered : flowers 
large, white, fragrant, pedicelled, furnished at the insertion with 
a small lanceolate bractea: peduncle angulose, as also the pedi- 
cels pubescent. Calyx irregularly 4- rarely 5-fid. Petals 4, 
rarely 5, oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, externally virido-punctate, 
internally longitudinally sulcated. Stamens 30-35. Disk an- 
nular. Ovary stipitate, globose, green, minutely puberulous : 
style terete, club-shaped : stigma subcapitate, turbinate. 
There are two varieties of Shaddock. In var. a. tnali/ormis, 
the fruit is globose, with the pulp of a pale pink colour, ap- 
proaching to a very light yellow. In var. f3. pyriformis, the 
fruit is more or less pear-shaped and the pulp is of crimson 
colour more or less intense. The second of these varieties is 
the most esteemed, being sweet and juicy, and having only in 
a slight and palatable degree the acridity which abounds in the 
first. There are very few good Shaddock trees in the Island. 
I may remark that I have always found the pear-shaped variety 
good, whereas it is seldom the case with the round-shaped 
fruit. There cannot be a doubt, but that if budding, as is done 
in China, were more generally practised, instead of trusting to 
propagation by the seed, that the fruit would be much improved. 
This tree is a native of China. It was first brought from 
that country to the West Indies by Captain Shaddock, whose 
name has since been given to the fruit. 
7. Citrus Paradisi. Forbidden Fruit. 
Petioles alate, leaves oval rounded crenulated 
glabrous, stamens 25, fruit large. 
This is a tree of a handsome appearance, about 30 feet in 
height, with branches suberect, and sharp at the apex. Leaves 
oval, rounded, crenulated, glabrous : petioles subalate. Spines, 
for the most part short, axillary. Flowers peduncled, axillary, 
either solitary or in a raceme of from 2 to 6. Bracteas one at 
the base of each pedicel, concave, lanceolate. Peduncle glab- 
rous, half-an-inch long. Calyx irregularly 5-fid, faintly ciliated. 
Petals 4, lineari-oblong, rounded. Stamens 25-26. Fruit 
sweetish, subacid. 
