456 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



south of London, it may be planted as a standard bush on the open lawn, or 

 in the shrubbery. 



ORDER XXVIII. GRANATA V CE^E. 



ORD. CHAR. Calyx 5 7-cleft, tube turbinate, limb tubular ; aestivation val- 

 vate. Petals 5 7. Stamens indefinite, free. Style filiform. Stigma capitate. 

 Fruit large, spherical, divided horizontally into two compartments, lower 

 part 3-celled; upper part 5 9-celled. Seeds numerous, covered with 

 pellucid baccate pulp. Albumen wanting. Differs from .Afyrtaceae in the leaves 

 being without dots. (G. Don.) 



Leaves simple, opposite or alternate, exstipulate, deciduous ; lanceolate, 

 entire. Flowers terminal, scarlet. Shrubs or low trees, natives of Africa. 



GENUS I. 



7 J U V NICA Tourn. THE POMEGRANATE TREE. Lin. Syst. Tcosandria 



Monogynia. 



Identification. Tourn. Inst., t.401.; Dec. Prod., 3. p. 3. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 653. 



Synonymes. The Carthaginian Apple ; Grenadier, Fr. ; Granate, Ger. ; Melograno, Ital ; Grana- 

 dos, Span. 



Derivation. Punica is said, in the Nouveau Du Hamel, to be derived either from puniceus, scarlet, 

 in allusion to the scarlet colour of the flowers ; or from the same word, or Punicus, both signify- 

 ing " of Carthage ;" near which city, Pliny tells us, it was first found. 



Gen. Char. Same as that of the order. 



Leaves simple, opposite, sometimes whorled or alternate, exstipulate, deci- 

 duous ; oblong, entire. Flowers terminal, scarlet, with numerous stamens. 

 Low deciduous trees or shrubs, indigenous to Africa, and naturalised in 

 the South of Europe. 



*t l. P. CTRANA'TUM L. The common Pomegranate Tree. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 676. ; Dec. Prod., 3. p. 3. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 653. 

 Engravings. Bot Mag., t. 1832. ; and our fig. 817. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Stem arboreous. Leaf lanceolate. (Dec. Prod.) A 

 deciduous tree. Mauritania, whence it may have migrated into the South 

 Europe, where it is now perfectly indigenous. Height, in France and Italy, 

 15 ft. to 30 ft. ; in England generally trained against a wall, where it attains 

 double that height when there is room. 

 Introduced in 1548. Flowers scarlet; 

 June to September. Fruit globose, in 

 warm seasons sometimes ripened in No- 

 vember. 



Varieties. 



*t P. G. 1 rubrum Dec. Prod. iii. p. 3. 

 (Trew Ehret, t. 71. f. 1. ; Poit. et 

 Turp. Arbr. Fr., 22.; Schkuhr. 

 Handb., t. 131. b.; Sims Bot. Mag., 

 t. 1832.; and our Jig. 817.) has the 

 flowers red ; pulp of fruit reddish. 

 Wild in Mauritania and the South 

 of Europe, and enduring even the 

 coldest winters. (Dec. Prod. y m. p.3.) gl - Pi Granktum rttaiun . 



