Punied.} LYTHRACES. 505 
- branches; bracts 0. Sepals 4-8, thickly jeatheéry, connate below 
ina widely campanulate calyx ; lobes lanceolate, valvate. Petals 
£8, linear-oblong, or 0. Stamens numerous, inserted in a circular 
band on the calyx-tube. Carpels many, connate in a many-celled 
ovary, only adnate at its base to the calyx-tube; ovules many, 
ascending, on axial placentas ; style long; stigma capitate. Fruit a 
subglobose, 10-15-celled berry, supported by the persistent calyx. 
Seeds very many, small, angular, curved ; cotyledons convolute. 
Leaves narrow-oblong; calyx 4-lobed ; petals 0; stigma very large, 
MO SO soc. ees ccc sles vee rlew eve dodutcnsebvcousses ts elwahnie apetala. 
Leaves oblong or oboyate-elliptic; calyx 6-lobed ; petals 6 ; stigma capi- 
tate, not very large acida. 
840, SonneRaTIA APeTALA Ham.; F. I. ii. 506; F. B. 1. ii. 579; 
E. D. 8. 2369. 
Sundribuns. 
A tree 40 feet high. Beng. Keora. 
841. Sonneratia actpa Linn. f.; F. I. ii. 506; F. B. Lit. 579; 
E. D. 8. 2362. 
Sundribuns. 
A small tree 15 feet high. Beng. Ora. 
350. Punica Linn. 
angular ; 
ro thinly pulpy outer coat; cotyledons convolute. 
842. Puntca Granatum Linn.; F. I. ii. 499; F. 8B. L. ii. 581; 
E. D. P. 1496. 
In gardens, in the western and northern provinces 
especially. 
A shrub. Hind. Anar, darim; Beng. and Uriya Dalim. 
The Pomegranate. 
