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fingered Lemon, which has a solid fruit without any cells or pulp, and is divided in the middle into five or more 
long round parts, a little crooked, and having the appearance of the human hand, with the fingers slightly bent. 
The limes used in making punch are a small round variety of the Lemon. 
4.—CITRUS PARADISI Macfayden. THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT. 
Synonymes.—C. Limonum Paradisi Risso; Pomum Paradisi Fern. 
Speciric Cuaracter.—Leaves oval, rounded, crenulate, smooth ; petioles winged. Fruit large, subacid. (@ Don.) 
Description, &c.—The tree of this species has numerous branches, and the leaves are much longer and 
narrower than those of any other kind of Citrus. ‘The flowers are large, and have from four to seven unequal 
petals, which are tinged with purple like those of the Lemon. The fruit is very large, with a very thick rind, and 
scarcely any pulp, but what there is contains a very acid juice, and only two or three seeds. There are two 
varieties of this species, both of which are natives of Jamaica, where they form trees thirty feet high. The fruit 
makes an excellent sweetmeat, but is not good to eat uncooked. 
5.—CITRUS AURANTIUM Risso. THE ORANGE. 
Varietirs.—C, A. sinense Risso, the China Orange; C, A. flore- | oblong, acuminate, with a blunt point. Flowers with twenty or 
pleno Risso, the double-flowered Orange; C. A. Hierocunthicum Risso, | twenty-two stamens. Fruit globose, with a thin rind, and a sweet 
the Maltese Orange; C. A. minutissimum Risso, the Kin-kan Orange; | pulp. (@. Don.) 
C. A. ilicifolium Risso, the Holly-leaved Orange; C. A. nobile Risso, Eneravines.—Nouveau Duhamel, vol. vii, t. 35, fig. 3. Of the 
the Mandarin Orange. variety C. A. nobile, Bot. Reg., t. 211. 
Speciric CHaracter.—Petioles almost naked. Leaves ovate- 
The Sweet Orange forms a noble tree, growing to the height of from twenty to forty feet. 

Description, &c. 
The trunk is naked at the bottom, and the branches form a tuft at the top. The flowers are white and very 
fragrant, and as they continue appearing for several months together, the tree has almost always flowers and fruit 
on it at the same time. ‘The species is a native of Asia, but it has been long cultivated in the South of Europe, 
and many of the varieties have been originated there. These varieties are very numerous, but the best of them are 
the following :—the China Orange, which is the kind most generally sold in the market, and which not being so 
sensitive to cold as the other varieties, is grown in the open air in great quantities at Nice and in the Azores; the 
Genoa Orange, which is imported in great quantities from Genoa, and which has a thick rind, commonly marked 
with a little ridge down one side: this orange is considered very inferior to the preceding variety. The double- 
flowered Orange has flowers composed of ten petals, the pistil is usually divided in two parts at the top, each 
bearing a yellow stigma, and the pulp of the fruit is formed of a double range of cells, unequal in size, but all full of 
very sweet juice: this tree is very seldom cultivated. The Maltese Orange has a very thin rind, and the pulp, 
which is at first of a golden yellow, becomes of a deep red when it is ripe; the juice is very sweet, and the seeds 
are very small. The small-fruited Orange has lanceolate leaves, and very long petioles; the fruit of this variety is 
not much larger than a cherry ; it is very ornamental, but the juice is acid. The Mandarin Orange has both the 
rind and the pulp of the fruit reddish ; it has sweet juice, and a sweet eatable rind, which adheres so loosely to the 
pulp as to be separable from it by the slightest effort, and which, when ripe, often separates naturally. There 
are many other varieties, but these are the most important. ‘The Sweet Orange trees are generally propagated by 
budding or grafting on the Citron or the Seville Orange, as when Sweet Oranges are raised from seed, they do not 
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