XCIX. GEANATE^. 



435 



Thie little group of Olmtecg, composed of the genera Olinia, Myrrhinium, and Fenzlia, is placed 

 between Myrtacete and Melastomacecs. The berries of Myrrhinium atropurpureum, [a Brazilian shrub,] 

 are edible. 



XCIX. GRANAIE^,^ Endlicher. 



Pomegranate. Verfcical section of flower. 



Pomegranate. Diagram. 



Pomegranate (Punica Granatum). 



Pomegranate. Seed entire and cut vertically (mag.). 



Pomegranate. 



Transverse section of upper 



chamber of fruit. 



] 1 e n u* 



TranL7^^«w ,,^>,^^^ „^ lower 



chamber of fruit. 



Pomegranate. 



Pomegi-anate. 



Seed cut transversely 



(mag.). 



Stem woody, brancKes sometimes spinescent. Leaves generally opposite, often 

 fascicled, entire, not punctate, glabrous, exstipnlate. Flowers 5 ? terminal, soli- 

 tary or aggregate. Caltx coloured ; limb many-partite, many-seriate, valvate in 

 bud. Petals 5-7, inserted on the calyx-throat, alternate with the sepals, imbricate 

 in bud. STAMBisrs numerous, many-seriate, inserted below the petals, and included ; 

 filaments filiform, free ; anthers introrse, 2 -celled, ovoid, dorsifixed, dehiscence 



^ See end of LythrarieO', p. 433. — Ed. 



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