643 GRANATE, 
the former law, and completely destroys his idea, unless it 
can be proved that the style is composed of more than two. 
This genus is I think clearly not referrable to Myrtacez; 
with which order it does not at all agree in habit: in which 
it resembles much more certain Pomaces, as well as in the 
colour of its flowers, particularly if attention to its short 
lateral branches, with respect to the assertion that Punica 
has distinet traces of pellucid dots in its leaves, it must be 
urged that as there is no tendency towards aroma in the 
plant, so there is no reason why they should be supposed 
to exist, and in addition the apparent traces that may per- 
haps exist do not agree in nature with these reser- 
voirs, but are rather attributable to the suppression of 
green Parenchyma here and there, a circumstance of suffici- 
ently common occurrence, 
As to its proper station, I am by no means determined, 
probably it should be placed between Melastomacez, Lythra- 
riez, and Myrtacez, with this latter it has affinity with So- 
neratia, if Soneratia belongs to the order, with Lythrariez 
through Lagerstreemia grandiflora and Grislea, with Melasto- 
macez through Memecylon. 
With Poem in habit, venation, and anthers, and grant- 
ing Lindley’s views to be correct in carpellation. 
Examine, style its vasc. fascicles correspondence of upper 
cells with those of the lower, &c. 
MYRTACE. 
TRISTANEA. 
Tristaniee facie. 
Fruticosa, subglabra, 8 pedalis. Ramuli nidis com- 
pressi. Folia alterna oblongo-lanceolata, in petiolum at atte- ~ 
nuata obtusa integra coriacea subglabra, pellucido-punctata 
venis intromarginalibus et marginibus diaphanis. 
