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CITRUS. Aurantium; y: myrlifolia. J Z 
| Myrtle-leaved Orange-tree. 
POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Aunantia. Jussieu gen. 259. Div. II. Fructus polysper- 
mus baccatus. Folia punctata. Aurantia vera. Tr Aa 
CITRUS. Supra vol. 8. fol. 211. } ae x4 
‘C. Aurantium, petiolis alatis, foliis acuminatis, caule ‘arboreo. Thunb. jap. 
205s “ei 
Citrus Aurantium. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 9.1100. Willd. sp. pl. 3.1427. Hort. i 
Kew. 3. 101. ed. 2. 4. 420. . 
(a) Malus Aurantia major. Banh. pin. 436. _ 38 
(8) Malus Aurantia, cortice.dulci eduli. Bank. pin. 436. 
(y) Citrus vulgaris myrtifolia fructti pumilo, medullA acri et amard. Risso 
in ann. du muséum. 20.169. ieee ok 
Citrus aurantium indicum caule et fructt: pumilo, myrtifolium. Gales. citr. 
n°. 22. 134. ; ee a : 
Citrus sinensis. (Frutex parvus foliis myrti.) Persoon syn. 2. 74; (vie tamen 
synonymorum preter forsan Milleri). :* : 
Aurantium myrteis foliis Sinense. Ferr. hesp. 430. t. 433. 
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In the Synopsis Plantarum of Persoon, we find our plant 
separated from durantium as a species; but without the 
statement of any distinction which was not known to every 
botanist, or the pretence of experience. We believe the alter- 
ation to be purely empirical. The plant has been known in 
most of the European collections for at least a century. It 
was familiar to the learned and sagacious editors of the — 
Hortus Kewensis, as well as to Mr. Aiton, the late intel- 
ligent superintendent of the establishment which gave rise 
to that classic work, but has never before been recorded 
as distinct from Aurantium; and until we have proof of its 
being so, it seems safer to let it remain the variety it has 
been usually deemed. eo 2 
In two very recent treatises on the genus, cited in the 
above synonymy, our plant is always spoken of as an un- 
doubted variety of the Common Orange. In one of them it 
is described as a subvariety of the variety known by the 
name of the Dwarf Orange, differing from that in having 
‘the leaves more pointed. It is chiefly cultivated for orna- 
‘ment or curiosity. The Crrrus japonica or Japan Orange- 
shrub, is deseribed with leaves and fruit no bigger than that 
