456 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
south of London, it may be planted as a standard bush on the open lawn, or 
in the shrubbery. 
Orver XXVIII GRANATA‘CEZ. 
Orv. CHAR. Calyx 5—1-cleft, tube turbinate, limb tubular ; estivation val- 
vate. Petals 5—7. Stamens indefinite, free. Style filiform. Stigma capitate. 
Fruit large, spherical, divided horizontally into two compartments, lower 
part 3-celled; upper part 5—9-celled. Seeds numerous, covered with 
pellucid baccate pulp. A/bumen wanting. Differs from Myrtacez in the leaves 
being without dots. (G. Don.) 
Leaves simple, opposite or alternate, exstipulate, deciduous; lanceolate, 
entire. Flowers terminal, scarlet. — Shrubs or low trees, natives of Africa. 
Genus I. 
fells 
PUNICA Tourn, Toe Pomegranate Tree. Lin. Syst. Ucosdndria 
Monogynia. 
Identification, Tourn. Inst., t.401.; Dec. Prod., 3. p. 3.; Don’s Mill, 2. p. 653. 
Synonymes. The Carthaginian Apple; Grenadier, Fr. ; Granate, Ger. ; Melograno, Ital ; Grana- 
dos, Span. 
Derivation. Pinica is said, inthe Nouveau Du Hamel, to be derived either from puniceus, scarlet, 
in allusion to the scarlet colour of the flowers; or from the same word, or Punzcus, both signify- 
ing ‘‘ of Carthage ;” near which city, Pliny tells us, it was first found. 
Gen. Char. Same as that of the order. 
Leaves simple, opposite, sometimes whorled or alternate, exstipulate, deci- 
duous ; oblong, entire. Flowers terminal, scarlet, with numerous stamens. 
— Low deciduous trees or shrubs, indigenous to Africa, and naturalised in 
the South of Europe. 
* 1. P. Granatum L. The common Pomegranate Tree. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 676. ; Dec. Prod., 3. p. 3. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 653. 
Engravings. Bot Mag., t. 1832.; and our jig. 817. 
Spec. Char. §c. Stem arboreous. Leaf lanceolate. (Dec. Prod.) A 
deciduous tree. Mauritania, whence it may have migrated into the South 
Europe, where it is now perfectly indigenous. Height, in France and Italy, 
15 ft. to 30 ft.; in England generally trained against a wall, where it attains 
double that height when there is room. 
Introduced in 1548. Flowers scarlet ; 
June to September. Fruit globose, in 
warm seasons sometimes ripened in No- 
vember. 
Varieties. 
* P.G. 1 rubrum Dee. Prod. iii. p. 3. 
(Trew Ehret, t.71. f. 1.; Poit. et 
Turp. Arbr. Fr., 22.; © Schkuhr. 
Handb., t. 131. 4.; Sims Bot. Mag., 
t. 1832.; and our jig. 817.) has the 
flowers red ; pulp of fruit reddish. 
Wild in Mauritania and the South 
of Europe, and enduring even the é 
coldest winters. (Dec. Prod.,iii. p.3.) iP Phase bes, 
