The Florida agriculturist., 1884-08-27
CHAPTER III.

Florida A0ricutt0rist.
CHAPTER III.
ART. VI.-Of the Agrupli Of Indid-
Dissertations upon these Plants-Their
description and synonyms.
MOI.
Acrumen nobilis Chinense.
Citrus nobilis. (Lour. FL Coc Sp., 81
Camxsanh, B. Tsem can: Citru inermis, ra.
mis- ascendentibus, petiolis strictis, fructu tu-
berculoso, sub-compreis, It. ., p. 1861
The Citrus nobilis, rare in China, but
abundant in Cochin China, is a tree of
medium size, distinguishing itself par
ticularly by the upward growth Of it's
branches, which are thornless. It's
leaves, scattering, lanceolated, quite
sound and lustrous, are of dark green,
and have strong odor. They have lin
ear petioles. The flowers, arranged in
terminal punches, are white having five
petals and avery pleasant perfume. The
fruit is round berry, a little compressed;
it usually has nine sections, red inside
as well as out. The skin is thick, juicy,
sweet, and covered by unequal tubercles
(warts)
This is twice as large as the Chinese
orange, and is the most agreeable of all.
Acruraen Margarita
Citrus Margarita: Chu tsu a Chau tri: Citrus
ramis ascendentibus. aculeatis, petiolis linear
ibus: baccis locularibus, oblOngis. (Lour.
FL Coch. t. 2, p. 469.>
The Citrus nlargdlita resembles lit
tie the Citrus jopenica, but it differs in
many traits, which make it another spe-
cies. 1t is a shrub whose branches are
straight and thorny; its leaves, lanceo-
late and scattered, are basedupon linear
petioles; its odoriferous flowers having
4 five white petals are joined in small
the branches.
Its fruit (small, oblong, and OF a red
4 Yellow contains but five sections undel
/ very thin skin; the pulp is sweet and
A agreeable.
/ Itcomes from China, above all from
the neighborhood of Canton, and snevel
found in Cochin-C China.
The Citrus of Thmberg, on the con
trary, has winged petiole, and the fruit
has thick skin containing nine cells.
NO. III.
Acrumen Amboinicum caule anguloso, folio
maximo, petiole alato, fore magno, fructr
spherico, compresso, foveolis notato, cOrtice
crocec, medulla adhtshrente, succo viscoso e
Agrume rouge d'Amboine.
rus fusca. (Lour. Fl. Coe, Sp. Ga Cay Baong
Chi xac Ii chi ken.
The red agrume of Amboyna, as vel
as other varieties of this island, and O
II Japan, offers characteristics which meri
notice. We will copy what Rumphiu'
says of it in his herbarium of 1Amboyna
The sour-fruited orange is a tree grow
ing at Amboyna to very great height
Its stem is angulous and as large as tha
of the pumpelmoes, and has a very
strong odor; the thorn is long and sharp
the flower, large and white, having five
petals.
The fruit round and little fattened
is marked by many small spots, and does
not take it's color entirely until it's full
maturity. The skin adheres to tht
pulp, and, the sections adhere anon,
themselves as in the lemons. The pull
is full of gelatinous and acidulateC
juice This species resembles the Citru
fusca of Loureiro, of which it is perhaps
but variety.
Acrumen Sinense fructn ex viridi ntglicanti
medulla subdulci.
Agrume de Ia Chine.
Agrume Chinese.
A1rantium Sinense: Lemon manis Tsjins
(Rumph. Aerb. Amb. part "A. chap. 4l)
The GrantiuDa si,ae'ase which Rumphiu
saw in the islands of Amboyna an,
Banda, appears not to differ from ou
orange:
1t forms fine tree which grows large
than the sour orange; it's straight bran
ehes give to it head, rounded and high
the leaf, long, smooth, with twiste
petiole, has lateral thorn. The fruit
large and round, has skin of blaekisl
green color, which does not adhere a
all to the pulp; its juice is little vinou
and sweetish.
Rumphius observes that there is ais
species of it whose fruit is smaller an,
much sweeter; and three others, Q
which the first makes very large tree
and bears large, sweet fruit; the sec
ond produces fruit covered by tuber
cles, and of which the pulp is scarcel
sweetish; and the third, low shrub
gives small fruit, whose skin is YER
n thin and agreeable. The first, that h
IA calls durGntistm Uerrucossuns, lemon ma
" mis- besdGr appears to belong to our oran
rh ges. The second, called at Banda lemOi