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268 elimichum pullam (Tam.); Nimma-pandu ; nemmapúndú (Tel.) Nimbe hannu (Kan.).

Habitat : — Wild in the warm valleys of the outer Himalayas. Cultivated all over India.

Leaflet elliptic-oblong, petiole many times shorter than the leaflet, linear or obovate, racemes short, flowers small, petals usually 4, fruit usually small, globose or ovoid, with a thick or thin rind, pulp pale, sharply acid.

Part used : — The juice.

Use : — Native practitioners consider lime-juice to have virtues in checking bilious vomiting, and believe that it is powerfully refrigerant and antiseptic (AINSLIE.)

Fresh lime-juice often proves effectual in relieving the irritation and swelling caused by mosquito-bites (Dr. Thornton in Watt's Dictionary.)

Sans. : — Madhu Karkatiká.

Vern. :— Mitha nebu ; nembu ; mitha amritphal (H.); Mitha nebu(B); Mitha-nimbu (Pb.); Mitha limbu (Guz.); elemitcuhm (Tam.) ; Nemma-pandu ; gajanimma (Tel.). Erúmitchi narracum (Mal.). Sâkar-Nimbu (Marathi ; Bombay}.

Habitat: — Cultivated in most parts of India.

Leaves and flowers as in Var. acida ; fruit globose, 3-5in, diam., rind very thin, smooth, adherent to the pulp. Flowers pure white, at times tinged pink. The pulp is never acid, even in early stages of the fruit. Juice sweet, abundant, refreshing, " not aromatic," say Brandis and Hooker. I find it slightly aromatic with the faint flavour of the rose as grown in the Bombay and Dekkan gardens. (K. R. K.).

Use : — Extensively used as refrigerant in fever and jaundice (WATT).

Habitat : — Hot valleys along the foot of the Himalaya and from Garwhal eastwards to Sikkim and in the Khasia Mountains ; Manipur; mountain forests in the Peninsula.