528 SAMYDACER. — [ Punica, 
PUNICA, L. 
Calyx persistent, 5-7-lobed, the tube at the base adnate to the 
ovary, turbinate, widened beyond the ovary. Petals as many as 
calyx-lobes, inserted at the summit of the calyx-tube. Stamens 
numerous, in many rows at the summit of the calyx-tube ; filaments 
filiform, inflected. Ovary inferior, many-celled, the cells super- 
posed in 2 rows with numerous ovules in each attached in many 
1. P. granatum, L.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 119; Brand. For. Fl. 
241.—Tha-lé.—A small tree, often remaining shrubby, with terete 
sometimes spinescent branches, all parts glabrous ; leaves usually 
crowded on the lateral short branchlets, oblong to oblong-lanceo- 
late and linear, on a slender or short petiole, blunt or acute, 14-2 in. 
of an apple, spherical or nearly so, crowned by the tubular calyx- 
tube, yellowish green, smooth, containing numerous rose-coloured 
watery-pulpy oblong seeds in the numerous superposed cells. 
Has.—Not unfrequently cultivated in the drier parts of Ava and Prome.— 
Fl. Jan.-Feb, 
SAMY DACEA. 
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sistent, 3-7-lobed, the lobes imbricate or valvate, Petals 3-7 
perigynous and im | 
or glandular. Stamens perigynous, indefinite or rarely definite, 
usually opposite the petals, and alte 
. scales. Ovary superior or more or less inferior, 1-celled, with 2-3 
_ Seeds often arillate, with a fleshy albumen. Embryo straight or 
nearly so, the radicle next the hilum ; cotyledons flat.—Trees 
or shrubs, with usually alternating simple leaves. Stipules 
or none. Flowers inconspicuous, in racemes, panicles, or 
