PUNICACEAE. 



Determined by Alfred Rehder and E. H. Wilson. 



PUNICA L. 



Punica Granatum Linnaeus, Spec. 472 (1753). — Loureiro, Fl. 

 Cochin. 313 (1790). — Bunge in ilf ew. Acad. Sav. Str. St. Petershourg, 

 II. 102 (Enum. PI. Chin. Bor. 28) (1835). — Wight, III. Ind. Bot. II. 

 t. 97 (1850). — Bretschneider, Study Chin. Bot. Works, 16 (1870).— 

 Debeaux in Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, XXX. 82 (Fl. Shangh. 30) (1875); 

 in XXXIII. 44 (Fl. Tientsin, 21) (1879). — Clarke in Hooker f., Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. II. 581 (1879). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 306 

 (1887). — Pritzel in Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 484 (1900). — Pavolini in 

 Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XV. 416 (1908). 



Punica nana Linnaeus, Spec. ed. 2, 676 (1762). — Sims in Bot. Mag. XVII. t. 



634 (1803). 

 Punica spinosa Lamarck, Fl. Frang., III. 483 (1778). 

 Punica Florida Salisbury, Prodr. 354 (1796). 

 Punica grandiflora Hort. ex Steudel, Nomencl. 669 (pro synon.) (1821). 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, cultivated, alt. 1000 m., June 

 7, 1907 (No. 3218; bush 3 m., flowers brick red); " Lungo il fiume 

 Hang-Kiang," alt. 700 m., June 1907, C. Silvestri (No. 1564). Shensi : 

 without locality, 1897, G. Giraldi; without locality, 1898, Hugh 

 Scallan. 



The Pomegranate is a favorite garden shrub and much cultivated by the Chinese, 

 especially in Peking. It is naturalized and cultivated in Yunnan and other warmer 

 parts of China where an inferior fruit is produced. 



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