ORD. XXVIII. Pomacee. 531 
though less warm, is similar in its qualities to that of the orange, 
and.is employed with the same intentions. 
The Pharmacopceias direct a syrup of the juice, and fie peel 
enters into the vinous and aqueous bitter infusions: it is also 
ordered to be candied: the essential oil is an ingredient in the 
spiritus amoniz compositus, and other formule. 
ne me EET TR en 
PUNICA GRANATUM. POMEGRANATE TREE. 
‘SYNONYMA. Granatum. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb: | Malus 
Punica sativa. Bauh. Pin. p. 438. Park... Theat. p, 1510. 
Malus Punica. J. Bauh. Hist. vol. i. p. 76. Malus Granata 
sive Punica. Gerard. Emac. p. 1450. Punica ‘spinosa, foliis 
nitentibus, ellipticis, integerrimis, floribus sessilibus. Hal. 
Stirp. Helv. n. 1098. Conf. Du Hamel Traité des arbres, t. 2. 
| p: 193. et Miller Illustr. Syst. Sex, g:Punica floribus plenis. 
Theophrasti et Dioscoridi arbor ejusque fructus dicitur Pox; 
Hippocrati arbor audit 2d, unde cortex fructus =ider vel Poms. 
Flores Punice sative autem Dioscoridi et Galeni Keraw hodie 
Balaustiorum Flores, vocantur. : 
Class Icosandria.. Ord, Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 618. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal: 5-fidus, superus.. Petala. 5. Pomum multi- 
loculare polyspermum. 
Sp. Ch. P. foliis lanceolatis, caule arboreo. 
THIS small tree rises several feet in height: it is covered with a - 
. brownish bark, and divided into many small branches, which are 
armed. with. spines: the leaves are oblong, or lance-shaped, 
pointed, veined, of a deep green colour, and placed apon short 
footstalks: the flowers are large, of a rich scarlet colour, and stand 
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