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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



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

 in the shrubbery. 



Order XXVITI. GRANATA^CE^. 



Ord. Char. Calyx 5 7-cleft, tube turbinate, limb tubular ; estivation val- 

 vate. Petals 5 7. Stamens indefinite, free. Stj/le filiform. Stigma capitate. 

 F7-uit large, spherical, divided horizontally into two compartments, lower 

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

 pellucid baccate pulp. Albinneii wanting. Differs from il/yrtaceE 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. 



1 



x^U'NICA Tourn. 



The Pomegranate Tree. 

 jNIonogynia. 



Lin. Syst, Icosandria 



Identification. Tourn. Inst., t. 401.; Dec. Prod., 3. p. 3. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 663. 



Synonymes. The Carthaginian Apple ; Grenadier, Fr. ; Granate, Ger. ; Melograiio, Ilal ; Grana- 

 dos, Span. 



Derivation. Piinica is said, in the Konvcau Du hamcl, to be derived either from /mnicevs, scarlet, 

 in allusion to the scarlet colour of the flowers ; or from the same word, or Punicas, 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. Floivcrs terminal, scarlet, with numerous stamens. 

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

 the South of Europe. 



t \. P. Granatum 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 o\irfig. 817. 



Spec. Char., <^c. 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, w here it attains i 

 double that height when there is room. j 



Litroduced in 1548. Flowers scarlet ; 

 June to September. Fruit globose, in 

 warm seasons sometimes ripened in No- 

 vember. 



Varieties. 



t P. G. 1 ruhrum Dec. Prod. iii. p. 3. 

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

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

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

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

 flowers red ; |)ulp of fruit reddish. 

 Wild in Mauritania and the South 



of Eurojje, and enduring even tiie 

 coldest winters. (Dec. Prod. , in. p,3.) 



