AA , LYTHRACEAE. 
resinoid appearance, and soluble in boiling water. 
the properties of tannin, such as blackening ferric salts 
and precipitating gelatine. It reduces oxide of copper im — 
de Pharmacie, Jan. 1863.) According to C.J. S. Thompson — 
the leaves yield to boiling water from 12 to 15 per cent. 0 the 
brown colouring matter, which is soluble in glycerine, st.ong 
solutions of potash and ammonia, and dilute acids, but very 
slightly in ether, chloroform or alcohol : the leaves also yield 
2 per cent. of an olive-green resin solable in ether and alcohol. 
PUNICA GRANATU\M, Linn. 
_ Fig.—Bentl. and Trim., t. 113. Pomegranate ( Eng.)y 
Grenadier commun (f’r.). 
Hab.—Socotra, Arabia, Africa (?). Cultivated throughout 
India. The fruit, rind, and root bark. 
_ Vernacular.—Anér, Darim (Hind.), Dalim (Beng.), Dalimba 
(Mar.), Dédam (Guz.), Médalai (Tam.), D4nimma | a3 
Délimbe (Can.) ; the flowers, Julnér, Gulnér (Arab., Pers 
Hind.), Pu-madalai (Tam.), Puyvu-dénimma (Te?.), Hushi- 
délimbe (Can.). 4 
History, Uses, &cC.—The pomegranate, which by Dine 
bach’s account is the Poa 2id7 of Hippocrates, is in culture in 
the south of Europe, Arabia, Japan, Persia, and Barbary. ek 
is also much cultivated in India, but the Indian fruit ig : 
inferior to that which is imported from the Persia Feats 
The Sanskrit name is Dadima, and the fruit is kt ee 
dana (parrots’ food) and Kuchaphala (breast fruit). Hinde 
physicians prescribe the juice of the ripe fruit nctaiel te i 
saffron as a cooling medicine. They also use the rind of 
fruit and the flowers, combined with aromatics, such as clo 
cinnamon, coriander, pepper, &c., as an astringent in g 
bowel affections as are not accompanied with tenesmus, pg 
Concan the juice of the green frnit, rubbed with waite a 
