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CITRUS nobilis. 6. minor. 
Dwarf Mandarin Orange-Tree. 
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POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. AuRAntiaA. Jussieu gen. 259. Div. II. Fructus polysper- 
‘mus baccatus. Folia punctata. Aurantia vera. 
CITRUS. Cal. 5-fidus parvus. Pet. 5, basi lata, inserta circa discum 
hypogynum, patentia. Stam. eidem disco imposita: anth, circitér 20, 
filamentis connatis in varia corpora, in cylindrum dispositis basi appressis. 
Stig. globosum. Bacca cortice carnoso vesiculis (glandulis miliaribus oleum 
fragrantissimum fundentibus Gertn.) innumeris papuloso, multilocularis, 
loculis 9-18, membrana propria distinctis, intis cellulosis pulposis & 1-2- 
spermis: sem. cartilaginea angulo interiori affixa. Arbores aut Jrutices sem- 
pervirentes ; fol. petiolo sepé marginato ; spine in pluribus axillares solitari@ ; 
pedunculi azillares aut terminales, 1-v. multiflori. Embryo rectus assurgens, 
in C. Aurantii vulgaris semine triplex distinctus nulla membrana interpositd. 
Juss. 
C. nobilis, petiolis sublinearibus, fructi depresso. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4 
4:20. 
Citrus nobilis. Lour. cochinch. 2. 466. 
Acrumen nobile chinense. Galles. citr. 175. 
(«) major. Andrews’s reposit. 608. 
(8) minor. Supra. 
Arbor mediocris, ramis ascendentibus. Folia lanceolata, integerrima, 
sparsa, nitida, obscuro-viridia, graveolentia ; petiolis linearibus. Flos albus, 
5-petalus, odoratus ; pedunculis multifloris terminalibus. Bacca compresso- 
rotunda, subnovemlocularis, intits et foris rubra, cortice crasso succoso, dulct, 
eduli, tuberculoso-inequali. Sinensi vulgari duplo major est, diametro 
5 pollices equante. Citrorum omnium gratissima. Loureiro de varietate («) 
majore: loc. cit. 
An entirely distinct species from the common China- 
Orange (Cirrus Aurantium). In the large variety (~) the 
fruit is deemed the most valuable of the genus, and called 
the Mandarin-Orange in virtue of its superiority. Both the 
large and small varieties were introduced by Sir Abraham 
Hume, by whom Mr. Edwards was favoured with the 
specimen from which the drawing has been made. Native 
of Cochinchina; cultivated at Canton. The fruit of the 
Jarge sort sometimes measures five inches in diameter, and 
has a rind of deep saffron-colour. In Aurantium the petiole 
of the leaf is edged by broad wings and of an obcordate form; 
in nobilis it is linear with an extremely narrow straight 
edging; in the former the fruit is nearly spherical, inthe 
latter considerably depressed, so as to be of greater breadth 
