POLYADELPHIA ICOSANDRIA. Many Sets of Chives. Threads from the Calyx or Receptacle.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx 5-dendatus. Corolla 5-petala. Stamina 20 in cylindrum passim connata. Stylus 1. Bacca 9-12-locularis, pulpâ vesiculari.
Cup five-toothed. Petals five. Stamens about twenty, generally united at the base. Shaft 1. Fruit 9-to 12-celled, the pulp variously divided.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Citrus petiolis sublinearibus, fructu latescente depresso.
Citrus with nearly linear leafstalks; the fruit broad depressed.
Citrus nobilis, inermis, ramis adscendentibus: petiolis strictis, fructu tuberculoso subcompresso.—Lour. Flor. Cochinchin. 2. p. 569?
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. Chives and pointal.
3. The chives spread open, a tip magnified.
4. Seed-bud and pointal.
5. A horizontal section of the fruit.