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PUNIGA GRANx\TUM 
POMEGRANATE TREE 
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STNO NTM^, Granatum. Pharnu Lond, ^ Edinh, Maluo 
Punica fativa. 
Baiih. Pin.p, 438. - FaT-k. Theat, p. 15 10 
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Punica. y. Baiih. Blft, vol. i. p, 76. Malus Granata five Punica. 
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Gerard.. Einac, p. 1450. Punica fpinofa^ foliis nitentibus, ellipticis. 
integerrimis, floribus fefTilibus. HaL Stirp, Helv. n. 1098. 
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Du Plamel Traite des 'arhres\ /. 2. p, 193. et Miller Illujir, Syji. Sex, 
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^ Punica floribus plenis. Theophrafti et Diofcoridi arbor ejufqu 
dicitiir Poo. 'j Plippocrati arbor audit i.^-n^ iinde cortex frudfus 
Flares Punic^s fativa aiitera Diofcoridi (?/,Galeni Y.vnm 
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hod'ie Balauiliorum Flores, vocantur 
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Clafs ' Icofandria. 
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Ord.. Monogynia. 
Lin. Gen, FJant, 618. 
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n. Ch. Cal. 5-fidus, fuperus 
Fetala 5, Fomim multilocii- 
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P. foliis lanceolatis, caule arboreo. 
THIS fmall tree rifes feveral feet in height: it is covered with a 
brownifh bark, and divided into many fmall branches, which are 
armed with fpines : the leaves' are oblong, or lance-fliaped, pointed, 
veined, of a deep green colour, and 
upon fhort footftalks : 
the, flowers are large, of a rich fcarlet colour, and fl:and at the end of 
the yoiing branches: the corolla is compofed of five large roundilh 
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ilender petals, with narrov/ claws, by which they are inferted into 
the calyx : the calyx is large, thick, flefliy, tubular, of a browniih red 
colour, and divided at the extremity into live pointed fegments : the 
filaments are numerous, fhort, bent inwards, furniihed with yellow 
antherse, and attached to the calyx : the germeh is roundiih, and 
fupports a fimple fl:yle, of the length of the filaments, and terminated 
the fruit is about the fize of an orange, and 
by a globular fiigma : 
crowned with the five teeth of the calyx : the rind is thick and tough, 
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