PUNICA GRANATUM. 
Tue Seconpary CHARACTERS. 
Punica. Calyx five-cleft. Petals five. Berry many-celled, 
many-seeded. Seeds baccate. Placenta parietal. 
Bate Bae, superior. Petals five. Pome or berry many-celled, many-seeded. 
Receptacle parietal. Seed berried. : 
Tue Speciric CHARACTERS. 
Punica cranatum. Arborescent: Leaves lanceolate, with 
no marginal vein, entire, smooth. 
Leaves lanceolate. Stem woody. 
Tue Artiricira, CHARACTERS. 
_ Cuass Icosanpria. Stamens twenty or more, arising from 
the calyx (perigynous). Orper Monocynia. Leaves oppo- 
site, not succulent. Ovary adherent (inferior), Leaves punc- 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
The Pomecranate is a native of the South of Europe, 
Asia, and Barbary, but in the West Indies, where it was 
introduced from Europe, the fruit is larger and better flavored 
than in its native climates. It is a shrubby tree, and in- 
favorable situations (its proper soil is a cretaceous one) it 
rises” twenty feet in height, with a very unequal trunk, send- 
ing out branches from its whole length, some of pai bear 
: The leaves are Opposite, about three inches long, 
fe E inch broad in the middle, pointed at each end, pet bie 
and of a light, lucid green color. The flowers, which stand 
at the end of the young branches, are large and sessile; they 
are three or four together, and make a fine appearance. The 
calyx i is thick, fleshy, of a fine red color, and divided into five 
pointed segments. The petals are roundish and wrinkled, 
; 2 inserted into the upper part of the tube of the calyx, and of a 
scarlet color. The fruit, which is cellular, is a pulpy, many- 
seeded berry, the size of an orange, crowned with the calyx, 
which is. sharply toothed, globular, and covered with a thick 
coriaceous rind. — 
When a longitudinal section of the fruit is made, the sin- 
; appearance i is presented of its being unequally divided 
‘into two chambers by a horizontaldiaphragm, the upper one 
containing from three to nine eos ane 1 the lower shece cellp, 
with membr iti a | 
