PLATE XCVL 



PUNICA GRANATUM. Var.fiore alio. 



' White Pomegranate. 



CLASS 



XIL 



ORDER 



I 



ICOSANDRIA MONOGYJSIA. Twenty Chives. One PointaL 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx. Perianthium monophyllura, campanu- j 

 latum, quinquefidum, acutum, coloratuoi, 

 perfiflens. 



Corolla. Petala quinque, fubrotunda, erefto- 

 patentla, calyci inferta. 



Stamina. Filamenta numerofa, caplllaria, ca- 



lyce brcviora, calyci inferta. Antherae ob- 

 longiufculse. 

 PiSTiLLUM. Genuen inferum. Stylus iimplcx^ 

 longitudine flatninum. Stigma capitatum, 



Pekicarpium. Pomnm fnbgloboAmij magnum, 

 coronatum calyce, novemloculare, diffipi- 



Empalement. Cup one leaf, bell-fliaped, five- 

 cleft, pointed^ coloured, and remaining. 



mentis memb 



aceis. 



Semina plnrima> angulata, succulenta. Reccp- 

 taculum carnofnm, iingulum loculamen- 

 tum pericarpii bifariam dividens. 



Blossom. Five petals, roundifh, upright and 

 fpreading, atttached to the cup. 



Chives. Threads numerous, hair like, fliorter 

 than the cup, and fixed to it. Tips nearly 

 oblon£j. 



PoiNTAL. Seed-bud beneath, Shaft Cmple, 



the length of the chives. Summit a knob. 



Seed VKssEL, A large and nearly round apple, 

 crowned by the cup, five-celled, the par- 

 titions (kinny. 



Seeds numerous, angulated, and juicy. Recep- 

 tacle flelliy, and dividing each cell of the 

 feed-veffel into two. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Punica folils lanceolatis, caule arboieo. 



Pomegranate with lance-ibaped leaves, and tree- 



like ftem. 



DIFFERENCE IN VAR. 



Punica Gra: Foliis majorlbus, pallidioribus j 



floribus fub-albidis. 



Pomegranate with larger and paler leaves; flow^ 

 ers nearly wliite. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. 



A Fkm-er ciit open, to fliew the infertion of the Petals and Chives, into the cup; with tne 



fituation of the Pointal. 



2. The fame flicwn from the reverfe fide. 



This handfome variety of the common Pomegranate, (for it cannot be confidered as a fpecies,) will. 



be 

 ornament 



et as an 



dse 



ogy 



he aiiddUng hardy clafs. Indeed wc liave little doubt of this, if we may judg^ 



deciduous charaaer, or from its natural affinities; as the other forts of this 



fpecies viz. fiuglered, double red, yellow flowered, and another new variety with large red bloflbms 



and larger leaves, all endure our winters, with lit lie, or no proteaion, in the fouthern, or weftern 



counties of the ifland; and are all natives of the fame clime: from whence, no doubt, they, like the 



Orange-tree, 8rc. &c. have been originally tranfported ; though at prefent confidered as indigenous, to all 



the different couotiies on the coafls of the Mediterranean fca, where the fingle red is cultivated for its 



fruit; the agreeable acidity of which, is confiJcred as a great luxury, in allaying the thirft occafiuned 



by the inlenfe heat, of ihofe parching regions. In the month of April laft year 1799, a fi"^ branch, 



ia full flnwer, was obligingly communicated by Lady Hume, from her felea colleaion at Wormley 



Bur)-, I Icrts ; from which our figure was taken, and where it was then flowering for the firft time 



in England. Her I,adyftup had received the plant, amongfl a number of others, from China, in [he 



year 1796. The fruit did not 1Ipr.11, which we attribute to its being kept in the hothoufe, to which 



fituation, all plants coming from the Eaft, are uecelfarily configned on their firft importation. 



r„e HKxle of inrri^ftng it is certain and eafy, by cuttings, or layers; and it grows moft luxuriant 



earth, compofcd of rotten leaves or rotten dung, and light fandy loam. 



