PLATE XCVI 



PUNICA GRANATUM. Far. fore albo. 



White Pomegranate. 



CLASS XII. 

 ICOSANDRU MONOGYNU. 



GENERIC CHARACTER 



ORDER I. 



Twenty Chive*. One Pointal. 



Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, campanu- 



latum, qninquetidum, acutum, coloratum, 



perfiftens. 

 Corolla. Petala quinque, fubrotunda, erefto- 



patentia, calyci inferta. 

 Stamina. Filamenta numerofa, capillnria, ca- 



lyce breviora, calyci inferta. Antherae ob- 



longiufculse. 

 Pistilll'm. Germen inferum. Stylus fimplcx, 



longitudine ftamimim. Stigma capitatum. 

 Pericarpium. Pomum fubglobofum, magnum, 



coronatum calyce, novemloculare, diflipi- 



mentis membranaceis. 

 Semina plurima, angulnta, succulenta. Recep- 



taculum carnofum, fingulum loculamen- 



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

 cleft, pointed, coloured, and remaining. 



Blossom. Five petals, roundiih, upright and 

 spreading, atttached to the cup. 



Chives. Threads numerous, hair like, fhorter 

 than the cup, and fixed to it. Tips nearly 

 oblong. 



Pointal. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft fimple, 

 the length of the chives. Summit a knob. 



Seed vessel. A large and nearly round apple, 

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

 titions lkinny. 



Seeds numerous, arjgulated, and juicy. Recep- 

 tacle flelliy, and dividing each cell of the 

 feed-veffel into two. 



turn pericarpii bifariam dividens. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 

 Punica foliis lanceolatis, caule arboreo. Pomegranate with lance-ihaped leaves, and tree- 



like Rem. 

 DIFFERENCE IN VAR. 

 Punica Gra: Foliis majoribus, pallidioribus; Pomegranate with larger and paler leaves; flow- 



floribus fub-albidis. ers nearly white. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A Flower cut open, to fhew the infertion of the Petals and Chives, into the cup; with the 



lituation of the Pointal. 



2. The fame fhewn from the reverie fide. 



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

 it is to be hoped, prove an agreeable addition to our gardens; though not as a fruit tree, yet as an 

 ornamental plant, of the middling hardy clafs. Indeed we have little doubt of this, if we may judge- 

 by analog}', from its deciduous character, or from its natural affinities; as the other forts of this 

 fpecies, viz. (ingle red, double red, yellow flowered, and another new variety with large red blollbms 

 and larger leaves, all endure our winters, with little, or no protection, in the fouthern, or vreftern 

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

 Orange-tree, iVc. S:c. have been originally tranfported; though at prefent confidered as indigenous, to all 

 the different countries on the coafls of the Mediterranean fea, where the (ingle red is cultivated for its 

 fruit; the agreeable acidity of which, is confidered as a great luxury, in allaying the third occafioned 

 by the intenfe heat, of thofe parching regions. In the month of April laft year \799< a fine branch, 

 in full flower, was obligingly communicated by Lady Hume, from her (elect collection at Wormley 

 Bury, Herts; from which our figure was taken, and where it was then flowering for the firfl time 

 in England. Her Ladyfhip had received the plant, amongft a number of others, from China, in the 

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

 fituation, all plants coming from the Eaft, are necelfarily configned on their nrft importation. 

 The mode of increafing it is certain and eafy, by cuttings, or layers; and it grows moft luxuriant 

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



