PUNICACEAE. 



Determined by Alfred Rehder and E. H. Wilson. 



PUNICA L. 



Punica Granatum Linnaeus, Spec, 472 (1753). — Loureiro, Fl. 

 Cochin, 313 (1790). — BungeinMem. Acad. Sav. Mr, St. Petersbourg, 

 II. 102 {Enum, PL Chin, Bor, 28) (1835). — Wight, III Ind, BoL II. 

 t. 97 (1850).— Bretschneider, Study Chin. BoL Works, 16 (1870). 

 Debeauxin AcL Soc. Linn. Bordeaux^ XXX. 82 {FL Shangh. 30) (1875); 

 in XXXIII. 44 (FL Tientsin, 21) (1879). -Clarke in Hooker f., FL 

 BriL Ind. II. 581 (1879). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 306 

 (1887). — Pritzel in BoL Jahrh. XXIX. 484 (1900). — Pavolini in 

 Nuov. Giorn. BoL ItaL n. ser. XV. 416 (1908). 



Punica nana Linnaeus, Spec. ed. 2, 676 (1762). -~ Sims in BoL Mag. XVII. t. 

 634 (1803). 



Punica spinosa Lamarck, FL Fran^., III. 483 (1778). 



Punica FloHda Salisbury, Prodr. 354 (1796). 



Punica grandiflora Hort. ex Steudei, Nomencl. 669 (pro synon.) (1821). 



Western Hupeh : Hsing-shan Hsien, cultivated, alt. 1000 m., June 

 7, 1907 (No. 3218; bush 3 m., flowers brick red); " Lungo il fiume 

 Hang-Kiang,'' alt. 700 m., June 1907, C. Silvestri (No. 1564). Shensi : 

 without locality, 1897, G. Giraldi; without locality, 1898, Hugh 

 Scallan. 



The Pomegranate is a favorite garden shrub and much cultivated by the Chinese, 

 especially in Peking. It is naturalized and cultivated in Yunnan and other warmer 

 parts of China where an inferior fruit is produced. 



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