We know 2 or 3 species of Citrus as peculiar to Eastern Australia, and Mr. Baeuerlen found a large Citrus fruit drifted down from the upper part of the Fly River in New Guinea, where, therefore, perhaps also some Citrus may be indigenous.
Citrus
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'A giant lemon of Fiji', Leader, 8 November 1890, p. 15. The article is based on a letter from a correspondent in Fiji, and describes a large fruit, the identity of which is uncertain. The article states:
Baron von Mueller has been communicated with on the subject, and is endeavoring to obtain a leafy, flowering branch and a ripe fruit for examination, so that we shall probably know all about it ere long; but without this double material it is, of course, impossible to say whether the Citrus tree is a form of a known species or an endemic specifically distinct congener.
The quotation from M given here is introduced by 'Mr. Horne [in Horne (1881)] adds that the Shaddock and Lemon are in a wild state more common than any other kind of tree in Fiji. On the other hand Baron von Mueller says:—'.
Please cite as “FVM-90-11-00e,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on