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Citrus (This genus embraces according)

This genus embraces, according to Bentham and Hooker, about five species, natives of tropical India, and broadly cultivated over the tropical regions of the globe. Calyx cup-shaped or urceolate, three to five-cleft; petals four to eight, linear-oblong, thick, imbricated; stamens twenty to sixty. Fruit globose or oblong, fleshy, many-celled. To the species described on p. 335, Vol. I.,the following variety should now be added: C. medica Riversii (Rivers'). Bijou Lemon. fl. white, small.fr. small, globose. l. elliptic, serrated, on short, wingless petioles. 1885. (B. M. 6807.)