N. 0 ItlJTAOHJi. 
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Chittagong, the Western Gliats, and Satpura range in Central 
India. 
A shrub or small tree, flowering and fruiting at most 
seasons growing where, says J. D. Hooker, I found it on 
steep hill-sides (in Sikkim). Young shoots glabrous, purple. 
Leaflets glabrous, 3-Gin., elliptic ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; 
petiole naked or winged. Flowers G-10in., a raceme, small or 
middle-side, often unisexual. Stamens 20-40 ; petals generally 
more or less pink- Fruit globose, ovoid, or oblong, often mamil- 
late at the apex. The stamens are 25-55, says Brandis. Brandis 
found it, says he, (1) apparently wild in the outer valleys of 
Kumaon (1875) ; (2; in the outer valleys of Sikkim (1879) ; 
(4) Damrahal, Garo Hills (1879), a tree of 6ft. girth, 40ft. high; 
(5) upper Yunzalim Valley above Lomatee, in swamps and near 
streams (1880). Reported to be wild in the Eastern Dun, on 
the Satpura Hills and the Western Ghats in the Bombay 
Presidency (Talbot), Chitagong and on the Khasi Hills (H. K. 
and W.). 
Of the more cultivated forms may be mentioned the 
following four varieties : — 
Var. 1 C. mediea proper, the Citron. Var. II. C. Limo- 
num, the Lemon. Var. III. C. Acida, the sour lime of India. 
Var. IV. C. Limetta, the Sweet Lime of India. 
Variety I. C. Mediea proper, the Citron. Eoxb. 590. Leaflet 
oblong, petiole short, margined or not, flowers usually numerous ; 
fruit larger oblong or ovoid, or irregularly shaped, mamilla 
obtuse, rind usually warted, thick, tender; very aromatic, bitter, 
scanty subacid pulp. 
Sans. : — Matulunga ; phala pura ; bega pura. 
Vern. : — Bijaura ; limbu ; Kutla ; bara nimbu (H.); Beg-pura ; 
lebu ; nebu ; bijaura; honsa nebu (B.); Bajauri .nimbu (Pb). ; 
Bijoru ; turanj ; Mlank (Guz.) ; Bijapura ; mahalunga; bijori; 
binu (Roxb) ; Mahalung (M.) ; Turanj (Dec.) ; Elumich cham- 
pazham ; narttam pazham (Tam.); Nimma pandu ; naradabba 
(Tel.); Nimbe hanu ; limbu (Kan.) 
Parts used : — The rind, pulp, seeds and leaves. 
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