The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-09-03
vARIETIEs-NO. y.

Acrumen Indicum caue, spinoso. pumilo,
Iamis in aculeo, desinentibus, folio alato, fiore
axillari, solitario, albo ct odoroso, fructu min
no acutissime papillato, cortlce fiavo tenuls-
simo, odore jucundc, carne alba succossa ct
CRATE hcida.
Agrume Nipis.
I.imonellus: Lemon Nipis. (Rumph.)
The agrume nipis appears to represent
both the orange and the lemon, yet diff
fers by many traits wholly its own.
Its stem is very small, its branches end
in a sharp point like a thorn, its leaf is
winged. The flowers, aXillary and soli-
tary, are entirely white and odorous.
The fruit, yellowish like lemon, has
the size and shape Of the apricot, but is
terminated by nipple very much elon-
gated, and singUlarly pointed; its skin,
which is very thin, has pleasant odor,
and covers white pulp full of acid
juice.
John Burman, in his IHesdurus Zey-
loaicus, regards the limon nipis as the
same plant as'the limOniG malus sylces-
iris zeyIanica 5ructu pumilO, of Ceylon-
He writes as anonymous the n1Glus GurGn-
tia fructu Iimoais pusillO dcidissimO, OF
Sloane, and the cdtu-isieru naregGm of
Malabar, of Reede; which is the HmOnte
dcidissimd of Linn9us.
Nicholas Burman, in the Flora indicG
(Which he arranged according to the
system of Liln9us) in connecting to the
citron lemon the Lmonid mdlus sylrestrSs
segtdnica, of the Thesdurus zeylanicus of
Burman, regards it also as one with the
lemons of Amboyna, of Rumphius, (ts-
n,onellus cum cdrietdtibus. Rumph.)
II i easy, 81, sss by examining the de-
ley inner teo siificf among ti6nseives
to -considefedgs e single species. They
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them, but even these hkenesses cannot
make them rank in the same. genus.
Acrumen Alaboinicum fructu anguloso, SPIT
ma bina stipulaIi.
Agrume angueux.
Agrume angulOSO.
Citrus anguista: Citrus petiolis nudis, foliis
ovatis acutis, fructibus angulosis. (Wilde.
nOw.)
Limonellus malaice.
Lemon utan gasagi. (Rumph.)
The angulous agrume is still farther
removed from the European Citrus, and
appears to connect this genus with the
lintOnid by the Mldcus tdurinus of Rum
phius.
Its stem is not larger than ones arm;
its branches are crooked and knOtty the
leaf, resting upon a single petiole, grows
between two thorns, which form a sharp
angle at the point where the budappears,
and the next leaf grows solitary by the
side of the bud, with no trace of thorn;
this arrangement, in the old branches,
alternates in such a way as to make a
leaf without thorn succeed leaf with
two thorns, even to the last shoot, while
the young and the new branches bear
solitary leaves, the double thorn devel-
oping only in old age, as already spoken
Of. The flowers are solitary and white,
resembling those of the Iimon nipis, but
are smaller, and have five petals
We know nothing of its fertilizing organs
The fruit is very small, and sometimes
four, at times five-angled, and flattened
upon the sides; of a greenish color while
young, but occasionally growing yellow
at maturity. A very thin skin encloses
sections full of glutinous juice, with
odor like the linS0n nipis, but not edible.
1t contains four or five seeds.
Rumphius adds that this bush, found
lately in the marshy woods of Mangee
Ilndia,) near the sea, is almost unknown
to the natives, and that it grows in the
salt water which covers the soil at high
tide.
1t is easy to see the connection be-
tween the limOneltGs dngulOsus and the
bj@e@S tdurinuS.
vARIETIES-NO. XII.
Aerumen Japonicum foliis ternatis, fructu
tetrico pulpa glutinosa.
Agrume du Sap0n feufllis ternees.
Agnme GiapOnicO.
Citrus fOliis tematis. Linn.
Citrus tTifolio: Granger feuillis ternecs
[DesfOnt.l
The Citrus TrifOlidtG was the first to
take place among our Agrumi. Lin
n@us regarded it as species of the Cit
rus, and named it in his Systemd Pldnta-
rum, citrus .f0liis ternatis.
Three authors have given us its de-
scriptiOn. Kaempfer first, then Thum-
berg, and finally Loureiro.
Kaempfer paints it as fruit whose
branches are twisted, and leaves ternate
(like clover. The flowers, resembling