in botany. See the article Citrus.—Orange-flowers are justly esteemed one of the finest perfumes; and though little used in medicine, yet the water distilled from them is accounted stomachic, cordial, and carminative. The fruit is cooling, and good in feverish disorders, and particularly in diarrhoeas. Orange-peel is an agreeable aromatic, proper to repair and strengthen the stomach, and give a very grateful flavour to any infusions or tinctures into whose compositions they enter. It is particularly useful in preparations of the bark; gives an agreeable warmth to the infusion; and, according to Dr Percival, considerably increases its virtue.