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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, pi. 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. P. Granatum. 



Dwarf. P. Granatum nanum. 



