83e ORD. XXVIII. Pomacee../ vuniea crawatum. 
at the end of the young branches: the corolla is composed of five 
large roundish slender. petals, with narrow claws, by which they 
are inserted into the calyx: the calyx is large, thick, fleshy, 
tubular, of a brownish red colour, and divided at the extremity 
“into “five” pointed segments: the filaments are numerous, short, 
bent inwards, faiched with yellow anther, and attached to the 
-ealyx: the germen is roundish, and supports a simple style, of 
the length of the filaments, and terminated by a globular stigma: 
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the fruit is about the size of an orange, and crowned ‘with the five 
teeth of the calyx :*the rind is thick and tough, externally reddish, 
‘internally yellowish, filled.with.a red succylent pulp,* contained 
in’ transparent cellular: membranes, and included in nine cells, 
ewithin’ which numerous oblong angular seeds are also lodged. 
‘This shrubby ‘tree. is a native of sa Italy, and Barbary, and 
flowers from June to: ‘September. 
‘The Greek writers were well acquainted with the Pomegranate, 
_as appears from what, we have already mentioned under the 
Synonyma ; and Pliny tells us that its fruit was usually sold in 
“the neighbourhood of Carthage.* ° The cultivation of this tree 
: in England i is first to be dated from the time of Gerard, in 1596;° 
and though its fruit seldom arrives to a state of perfection in this 
country,* yet ‘the large and beautiful scarlet flowers * which it 
produces,. still render it a desirable object of ornamental gardening. 
The rind of the fruit, and the flowers, the calyces of which may be 
~ ineluded, are the parts directed in the Pharmacopceias for medici- 
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nal use. The fruit has been called cortex granati, maticorium, 
— &c. In its smell there is nothing remarkable, but to the 
* This is gratefully acid, some lat like that of oranges, 
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the Carthaginem punicum malum cognomite sibi vendicat ; aliqui 
“granatum appellant. 1. 13, ¢. 19. p. 333. *: Videi Aiton’s Hort. ies 
4 Miller tells us that he obtained fruit from some of these trees which were 
planted in a warm situation, but they had not the preper flavour. 
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© The double flowered sort, more especially, makes a very beaitiful appearance. 
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