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1. P. Granatum, Zmw. Sp. PI. 676 ; i)C. JVWr. lii. 3 : i?ox5. Ifot^ 



By, 38 ; P/. Ind, ii. 409 ; TTa/Z. Cat. 3G59 ; JT. (^ ^. i^-oc/r. 327 : Wwht 

 111 t. 97 ; Gr^jf: /c, P/. Asiat t. 634 ; ^om. Fl. Orient, ii. 737 ; Brand. For. 

 J^l 241 ; Kurz For. Fl i. 628. P. nana, Linn. ; i?o/^. Mag. 634. 



.^Cultivated throughout India ; probahly wild in the north-west.— Distrib. AVild 

 in Cabul and Persia ; cultivated throughout the warmer regions of the globe. 

 . Leaves commonly 2 by ^-J in., narrower at both ends especially at the base, intra- 

 raarginal nerve distinct or obscure. Flowering calyx about 1 in., mouth | in. broad. 

 rdah ^ in. or more. Fruit often 2 in. diam., containing much red juice round the 

 Beeds. ( The Pomegranate.') 



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, ,. .; Trees, glabrous or nearly so, branches quadrangular or terete. Leaves opposite, 



, • petioled, coriaceous, entire, acuminate, finely nerved beneath with an intraniar- 



j V ^^a] nerve. Rrcemes simple, axillary, erect, the 3-5 terminal panicled ; 



/' flowers small, pedicels short ; bracteoles 3 at the base of each pedicel, minute, 



hnear. Calyx superior, 5-lobed. Petals 6, smaU, triangular, caducous, inserted 



at the top of the calyx-tube. Stamens 10, in two whorls, 5 alternating with 



the petals and 6 others inserted just below ; connective large ; anthers small, 



subterminal. Omry inferior, 5-6-celled ; style straight, stigma simple ; ovules 



■ iQ each cell ]-2, erect. Capsule half-superior, woody, ellipsoid, below aduate 



to the calyx-tube, above loculicidally 3-4 (rarely 6-6-) valved. Seeds erect, 



. oblong, compressed, produced upwards into a "wdng ; cotyledons flat. — Distrib. 

 Species 4-5 from Ceylon, Malacca and Borneo. 



A. Eti-AxiNANDRA. Petals convolute. Ovule I in each cell. 



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■^- A. zeylanlca, T/maites in Hook. Kew Jourm. vi. 66; branchlets 

 " ^^|itely quadrangular, leaves rounded at the base, petiole about ^ in., calyx - 



■ tube without ribs, style very short. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 207. 



Ceylon; Ambagamowa district, alt. 1500 ft.; Thwaites. 



A large tree, dO-60 ft. (Thwaites). Leaves 4 by 2 in., gradually or suddenly 



acuminate. Eaceines 2 in. ; pedicels less than ^ in., hardly lengthened in fruit. 



' V^V/J^ glabrous or microscopically puberulous. Petals falling off in a cap before 



■ expansion (Thwaites). Capsule 1 by | in. ; valves usually 3, very thick, woody. 



■; :-:l B. Naxiaxdua. Baillon. Petals induplicate-valvate. Ovules 2 in each cell. 



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 jae base, petiole often \ in., calyx-tube at the time of flowering 10-ribbed, style 

 ^*^Qg (exserted portion longer than the whole flower). 



^Ialacci ; Maingav No. 654-2. 

 ^ Leaves 4 hy 2 in., gradually or suddenly acuminate. Racemes 2 in., more panicled 

 «ian in A. zeylanka, panicle-branches quadrangular. Calyx and pedicel minutely 

 P^oerulous, larger than in A. zeyl^nica. Petals expanding but caducous. Fruit not 

 ^^en.— Closely allied to A. Beccariana, Baill in Bull 80c. Linn. Paris 1877. No. 16, 

 ^-^7, which has rather slenderer racemes and smaller flowers, the calyx hardly ribbed 

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DicHOTOMANTHES, Kurz in SeemannJourn. Bot. ix. 194, is a tree imperfectly known 

 Possibly Lythraceous, collected by Dr. John Anderson in Yunan, as yet not found 

 ™^ the limits prescribed for the Flora of British India. 



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