PUNICA GRANATUM, 
rich loam, a sunny situation, and to be protected by glass. 
This tree grows wild upon both shores of the Mediterranean, 
in Arabia, Persia, Bengal, China, and Japan. It has been 
introduced into the East and West Indies, and is cultivated 
in all civilized countries where the climate is sufficiently 
warm to allow the fruit to ripen. In higher latitudes, where 
it does not bear fruit, it is raised in gardens and hot-houses 
for the beauty of its flowers, which may be produced double, 
and acquire increased splendor of coloring by cultivation. 
The PomeGRANaTE Was very early known, being repeatedly 
referred to in the Bible (Numb. xiii. 23; Deut. viii. 8, &e.), 
and is noticed by Homer (Odys. vii. 120). The Romans 
became acquainted with it during their contests with the 
Carthaginians, and hence called it Malum Punicum, which 
implies that it was abundant at an early age in the neighbor- 
hood of Carthage. ; 
Some difficulty having been eipetibniced 1 in comprehending 
the structure of this anomalous fruit, Dr. Lindley has ex- _ 
plained it thus. Within the calyx are two rows of carpella, 
a lower and inner one, consisting of three or four carpella 
surrounding the axis and placed in the bottom of the calyx, 
and an upper and outer one, consisting of from five to ten 
carpella, surrounding the lower, but adherent to the upper 
part of the tube of the calyx. The two strata or tiers of cells 
in the Pomegranate are found by the two rows or tiers of 
carpella, the upper and outer row being forced to the top « of — 
the fruit by the contraction of the tube of the calyx from 
which they arise. The transverse diaphragm is forme 
the adhesion of the upper to the lower stratum of car 
and the outer part of the rind of the Pomegrana’ 
by the calyx which contains the carpella. 
CHEMICAL AND MEDICAL PROPERTIES AND USES. 
The flowers, rind of the fruit, and the bark of the root of 
Punica GRANATUM are all oficial. The flowers, which are 
named Balaustines, are inodorous and taste bitterish. They 
impart a violet-red color to the saliva, and are mild a fl 
gents. The rind of the fruit, when dry, is in irregular, con- 
vex, brittle, brownish fragments, with no smell, but a bitter, 
astringent taste. The bark of the root and the rind of the 
fruit have the same sensible qualities. 'The bark of the root — 
is in small pieces, of an ash-gray or yellowish color externally, 
yellow with as and iat se bas, ot fibrous. Water extracts — ee 
