GRANATEiE. I. Punica. MEMECYLEiE 



653 







They thrive in almost any kind o( soil, and are usually increased by handb. t. 131. h. Sims. bot. mag. 



layers, but young cuttings will also strike root, if planted in a 1832. 



pot of sand, with a bell-glass placed over them, in a little bottom * Jlore-pleno ; flowers double, 



heat. The plants endure our winters in the open air, in a shel- scarlet. More impatient of cold 



tered situation, with very little protection in severe weather, than the single variety. Trew. 



But as they flower during the winter months, the plants are ehret. t. 71. f. 2. 



FIG. 86. 



liable to be injured by the frost, if planted in an exposed situation, 

 they are therefore seen to most advantage under shelter, as in a 

 greenhouse, pit, or conservatory. 



Oeder LXXXVII. 



TE^ 



Far. /3, albescens; corolla white; 

 calyx yellowish ; pulp surround- 

 ing the seeds pale. T? . H. Less 

 impatient of cold than the pre- 

 ceding variety. Andr. bot. rep. 96. 



* Jlore-pleno ; flowers double, 

 white, having the calyx yellow- 

 ish. Tj ' H. This variety is very 

 impatient of cold. 



Far, y^fiavum; flowers yellow. 

 This variety is very rare. 



The rind of the fruit and the flowers of the pomegranate are 

 (f. 86. i.). Stamens numerous ; filaments free ; anthers 2-celled, the parts directed for medicinal use. They are both powerful 



bursting in front, by 2 chinks. Style filiform. Stigma capitate, astringents, and have long been successfully employed as such 



papulose. Fruit large, spherical (f. 86. c), crowned by the limb Y^' externally and internally as gargles, in diarrliocas, &c. The 

 ^/» ., , //• o/- 1 \ • 1 1 • t /• • • IT /• ^Qse m substance is from halt a drachm to a drachm. In mtu- 



01 the calyx (f. 86. d.\ mdehiscent; the fruit is the tube of ^j^^ ^^ decoction to half an ounce. The pulp is subacid, allay- 



the calyx, divided horizontally into two chambers or parts Jng heat, quenching thirst, and gently laxative. 



the species of Pomegranate and their varieties). D. Don, in 

 edmb. phil. journ. July 1826. p. 134. D. C. prod. 3. p. 3. A 

 genus of Myrtacece, Juss. and all other authors. 



Calyx with a turbinate tube (f. 86. a.) and a 5-7-cleft coriaceous, 

 tubular limb (f. 86. e.) ; segments valvate in aestivation. Petals 5-7 



3-celIed ; the dissepiments membranous, separating the cells ; 

 toe placentas of the upper division of the fruit fleshy, reaching 



Common Pomegranate. 

 15 to 30 feet. 



Fl. June, Sept. Clt. 1548. Tree 



ffom the parietes to the centre 



sion progressing irregularly from the bottom of the fruit. 

 Seeds innumerable, exalbuminous, covered with pellucid bac- 

 cate pulp. Embryo oblong, with a short, straight radicle, 

 and foliaceous, spirally convolute cotyledons. This order 

 IS composed of trees or shrubs, with tetragonal subspinose 

 branches, opposite, deciduous leaves, rarely verticillate or al- 

 ternate ; they are oblong-lanceolate and dotless, usually dis- 

 posed in fascicles in the axils. Flowers 2-5, scarlet, almost 

 sessile, rising near the tops of the branches. — This order only 



2 P. na'na (Lin. spec. 676.) leaves linear; stem shrubby. 



Tj . G. Native of the West India Islands, and South America ; 



those of the lower div> about Demerara, &c. Sims, bot. mag. 634. Trew. ehret. t. 71. 



f. 3. Flowers red. Perhaps only a variety of the preceding. 

 The flowers are much smaller than those of the common pome^ 

 granate^ and the fruit is about the size of a nutmeg. In the 

 West Indies, where it is a native, it is planted for hedges, and 

 continues flowering all the year. 



Z)n;fl?/ Pomegranate. Fl. Jul. Sept. Clt. 1723. Sh. 5 to 6 ft. 



Cult. There is no tree more showy than the Pomegranate, 

 when in flower. It is best planted against a wall with a south 

 aspect. All the varieties strike root freely from cuttings or 

 layers; the rarer varieties are sometimes increased by grafting 

 on the commoner kinds. Those varieties most impatient of cold 



consists of one genus, the well-known pomegranate. It differs j^^j better be grown in pots, that tlicy may the more easily be 



My 



in the leaves being destitute of dots, and in protected by placing under shelter in the winter 



^ V * - CD 



^ing without the marginal nerve, also in the economy of the 



fruit, the pulpy seeds, and in the convolute cotyledons ; from Order LXXXVIII. MEMECY'LE^ (plants agreeing witi 



^^lycdnihece in the valvate calyx, and in the anthers bursting Memecyl 



\ 



D, C. prod. 2. p. 5. 



Memec^h 



the indefinite stamens; from 



^ombretdcece in the many-celled ovary, and in the situation of 

 Uie seeds ; from Vochysiece in the indefinite stamens and regular 

 "owers ; and from all in the structure of the fruit. 



Calyx with an ovate or subglobose tube and a 4-5-lobed or 

 4-5-toothed limb. Petals 4-5, inserted in the calyx and alter- 

 nating with its lobes. Stamens 8-10, or double the number of 

 the petals ; filaments free ; anthers incurved, 2-celled. Style 

 filiform. Berry crowned by the limb of the calyx, 2-4-ceIled. 



I. PU^NICA (Punicus, Carthaginian, because it is a native of Seeds few, exalbuminous. Cotyledons foliaceous, convolute. 



*e countries from the north of Africa to Rome ; or from^uwi- 

 ^y, scarlet, from the colour of the flowers). Tourn. inst. t. 



Radicle straight. — Intratropical shrubs, with simple, quite entire, 

 dotless, opposite leaves, which are nearly always feather-nerved; 



S^i' ^j^^^'g^'** no. 618. Gaertn. fr. 1. t. 38. D. C. prod, and axillary pedicellate flowers. This is a very doubtful order, 



but is, on account of its convolute cotyledons, allied to Calycdn- 

 the^e, Granate^^f and Combrctacece, but from the form of the 

 anthers and the number of the parts of the flower, it is nearer 

 related to Melaatomacece, nor is it far removed from Myrtacece 

 in the habit, flowers, and opposite leaves. 



Synopsis of the genera* 

 1 Meme'cylon. Calyx with a globose tube and a bluntly 4- 



8. p. 8. , 



IN. SYST. Icosdndria, Monoffynia. Character the same as 

 ^Jie order. ^ 



1 P. GranVtum (Lin. spec. 676.) leaves lanceolate ; stem 

 arboreous. T2 • H. Native of Barbary, from whence it has 

 l^'grated into the south of Europe, and now as it were become 

 mdigenous. 



^fr*a,rubrum; flowers scarlet, single ; pulp surrounding the 

 ^^t reddish. T2 . H. Wild in the places stated above. 

 *few, ehret. t. 71. f. 1. Pnit. Pt Turn. arb. fr. 22. Schkuhr, 



Poit. et Turp. arb. fr. 22 



