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An arboreous, rarely shrubby, small, slender tree ; young 
shoots glabrous, greenish-white. Leaves glabrous, 3-6in., 
elliptic or ovate, acuminate ; petioles naked or winged ; wings 
often obovate, as large as the blade or nearly so. Flowers 
pure white, scented more or less ; bisexual. Stamens 15-30. 
Fruit globose-, often depressed, 2in. diam., generally oblate, 
not mammillate. 
Of the more commonly cultivated forms are : — 
Var. I. Aurdntium proper. C. Aurantium, Linn, h.f.b.i., 
i. 515 ; Roxb. 590. The Sweet Orange. Petiole naked or winged, 
pulp sweet, rind yellow, rarely red in India. 
Sans. : — N&garanga. 
Fern. : — U&rangi ; Santard (H.); Kamate nebu ; n&rangi (B.); 
Suntala (Uriya) ; Ndrangi (Guz. and Mar); Kichilli ; chech u ; 
collungie pullam (Tam.); Ganjaninuna ; naranga pandu (Teh); 
Kithaboippe (Kan.); Mdhura-naranna (Mai.) 
Habitat : — Cultivated in India. 
Parts used : — The f ind and flowers. 
Uses : — The dried outer portion of the rind of. the fruit pos- 
sesses stomachic and tonic properties. If is useful in atonic 
dyspepsia, and general debility. * The water distilled from 
orange flowers is employed, in one or two fluid ounces, as an 
antispasmodic and sedative in nervous and hysterical cases 
(Ph. Ind.) 
The Mahomedan writers describe the rind and flowers as 
hot and dry, the pulp cold and dry, and recommend the fruit in 
colds and coughs, when febrile symptoms are present. The 
juice is valuable in bilious affections, and stops bilious diarrhoea. 
* * The peel is useful for checking vomiting, and the preven- 
tion of intestinal worms. Orange poultice is recommended in 
some skin affections, such as psoariasis, &c. Oranges are con- 
sidered to be alexipharmic and disinfectant ; orange-water 
stimulating and refreshing. The essence is extracted by oil 
from the rind and flowers, and is used as a stimulating liniment 
(Dymook.) 
