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PUNICACEAE. 
PUNICA. 
Pomegranate. 
(Family Punicaceae). 
Glabrous shrubs or small trees 
with flaking cortex: deciduous. 
Twigs narrowly 4-winged, becom- 
ing terete, rather slender: pith 
minute, roundish or flattened, con- 
tinuous. Buds'small, solitary, ses- 
sile, round-ovoid, with about 2 
pairs of rather loose’ pointed 
scales. Leaf-scars opposite or less 
characteristically in whorls of 3, 
half-round or narrowly  shield- 
shaped, raised: bundle-trace 1, 
transverse: stipule-scars minute, 
at the angles of the leaf-scar. 
Often referred to the family Lyth- 
raceae. 
Winter-character references to 
Punica granatum: — Bosemann, 
49; Schneider, f. 109; Shirasawa, 
268, "pl. 10-" © 
Like the crape myrtle, the 
pomegranate is much grown where the climate permits,—and 
about to the same northern limit; and it is a favorite in cool 
greenhouses. 
The dwarf form has come into considerable use 
for temporary summer bedding effects. 
Tall and often arborescent. 
Dwarf. 
P. Granatum. 
P. Granatum nanum. 
