A small, somewhat spiny tree, 4 to 6 meters tall; young growth
greenish; leaves elliptic oblong, 4 to 9 centimeters long and about
4 centimeters wide, crenulate; base acute; apex usually emarginate;
petiole scarcely winged, 10 to 15 millimeters long; flowers axillary,
solitary, rarely in pairs, 21 millimeters in diameter, fragrant;
petals white, reflexed; stamens 18 to 20, unequal; filaments united
into groups; ovary globose, 6 to 8 loculed; style slender, distinct;
stigma knoblike; fruit globose, orange yellow, 2 to 4 centimeters
in diameter; skin smooth, thin, brittle, separable from the flesh;
pulp orange colored, juicy, acid, with distinct aroma; juice cells
rather large, short, and blunt; seeds comparatively large, smooth,
plump, sometimes beaked; polyembryonic.
The calamondin is widely distributed in the Philippines and occurs wild
as well as cultivated. The plant makes an attractive, ornamental,
small tree and the fruit may be made into marmalade or utilized
in making ade. There are no particularly distinct forms of this
species. The trees are almost invariably very prolific and almost
everbearing. In Bohol the species is known as "limoncito."
B. A. No. 2332 (Tanauan, Batangas).
Citrus webberii. Alsem.
A shrubby tree with small, sharp spines; leaves averaging 95
millimeters in length, and 32 millimeters in width, oblong-ovate,
crenulate, dark green and shining above; base broadly acute; apex
emarginate, petiole 27 millimeters long; wings rarely exceeding 12
millimeters in width; flowers terminal, rarely axillary, solitary,
20 millimeters in diameter, sweet scented; calyx small; petals white,
reflexed; stamens 19 to 21, about equal; filaments united into groups
of several; ovary small, obovoid, 7 to 11 loculed; style distinct,
slender; stigma small, club shaped; fruit sometimes attaining a weight
of 165 grams, form oblate, 58 millimeters long to 65 millimeters long
to 66 across, to roundish oblate, sometimes compressed and wrinkled
toward base ending in a pronounced nipple; apex a shallow depression,
or mammilate with the circular depression more or less pronounced;
surface smooth to fairly smooth; color greenish yellow to lemon yellow,
lenticels few, depressed; skin thin, the "kid-glove" character more
or less pronounced; flesh whitish to grayish, very juicy, aromatic;
juice cells variable, from short and blunt to medium slender and
tapering to one end; seeds ovate, flattened, smooth, sometimes beaked.
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