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about 30 feet. The fruit generally not larger than a 
cherry. Perhaps other species of the section Abbe- 
villea would be hardy here and worthy of cultivation. 
Psidium lineatifolium, Persoon.—Mountains of Bra- 
zil. Berry about one inch in diameter. 
Psidium malifolium, F. v. Mueller. (Campomane- 
sia malifolia, Berg.) — Uruguay. Berry about one 
inch diameter. ; 
Pterocarpus Indicus, Roxburgh. — The Lingo of 
China andIndia. A tree of considerable dimensions, 
famed for its flame-red wood. It furnishes also a kind 
of dragon-blood resin. 
Pterocarpus marsupium, Roxburgh. — India, as- 
cending, in Ceylon and the Circars, to at least 3,000 
feet altitude; hence this tree would doubtless grow 
without protection in those tracts of our colony which 
are free of frost. It exudes the best medicinal kino, 
which contains about 75 per cent. of tannic acid. P. 
santalinus, Linné fil., which provides the Saunders, 
or red sandal-wood, is also indigenous to the moun- 
tains of India. 
Pterocarya fraxinifolia, Kunth. — Central Asiatic 
Russia. A kind of walnut-tree, which, with P. ste- 
noptora, Cas. de Cand., on Dr. Hance’s recommend- 
ation, should be adopted as trees for both ornament 
and timber, and so perhaps also the Japanese species. 
Punica granatum, Linné. — The Pomegranate. ° 
North Africa and West Asia. "Well known for its 
showy habit, rich-colored flowers, peculiar fruit, and 
medicinal stringency, but much overlooked regarding 
its value as a hedge-plant. 
Pyrus Japonica, Thunberg. — Japan. One of the 
prettiest of small hedge-bushes. Under favorable cir- 
cumstances it will produce its quince-like fruit. 
