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mon in temperate climates in Europe, 

 North America, and Northern Asia. The 

 apple, pear, medlar, quince, and several 

 other edible fruits belong to the group, of 

 which there are sixteen genera and about 

 two hundred species. Examples : Pyrus, 

 Mespilus, Crataegus. [J. H. B.] 



POMADERRIS. A genus of Rhamnacece, 

 of which about twenty species are known, 

 all of them found in Eastern extratropical 

 Australia and Tasmania, or in New Zealand. 

 It is distinguished from Cryptandra and 

 other allied genera, by the flowers being 

 destitute of bracts, by the stamens being 

 longer than the petals, and by the three 

 one-seeded pieces into which the fruit 

 separates not splitting in halves, but hav- 

 ing a large opening on the inner face. The 

 plants are erect branching shrubs, or 

 rarely small trees, woolly with star-like 

 hairs, and have alternate entire or toothed 

 leaves, and small flowers possessing a 

 hairy calyx with a short tube and five 

 spreading lobes, five small stalked petals 

 with as many stamens opposite them, and 

 a trifid style. The fruits are loosely invest- 

 ed by the tube of the calyx ; hence the 

 generic name, which is derived from the 

 Greek words poma, ' a covering,' and derris, 

 ' skin.' 



Several species, such as P. apetala, P. 

 discolor, P. betulina, P. elliptica (the Ku- 

 mahou of theNew-Zealanders\and others, 

 are occasionally met with in greenhouses in 

 this country ; they produce a profusion of 

 small yellowish-brown or whitish flowers. 

 P. apetala forms a small tree in New South 

 "Wales, and yields a hard close-grained 

 wood, there called Cooper's wood. [A. S.J 



POMARIA. A little-known South Ame- 

 rican shrub, described as constituting a 

 genus of Leguminosae of the suborder Cce- 

 satpiniece, differing from Ccesalpinia itself 

 chiefly in its short two-seeded very glan- 

 dular pod, and the glandular hairs with 

 which the whole plant is covered. If 

 really a good genus, it should probably in- 

 clude five or six South Brazilian or Chilian 

 species which have been published under 

 the names of Cladotrichium and Zuccagn in, 

 all low rigid undershrubs or shrubs with 

 twice-pinnate leaves, very small rigid and 

 not very numerous leaflets, and yellow 

 flowers in terminal racemes. 



POMAROSA. A Central American name 

 for Jambosa vulgaris. 



POMAX. A genus of Australian annual 

 plants of the family Cinchonacew. The 

 leaves are opposite, with leaf-like stipules, 

 and the flowers umbellate surrounded by 

 floral leaves and their stipules as by an in 

 volucre. There are about three flowers 

 in each head, all conjoined by the fusion 

 of their respective calyx-tubes; between 

 them passes a central axis dilated above 

 into a flat disk common to all the flowers, 

 and surmounting the ovary. The corollas 

 have each a three to flve-lobed limb, and are 

 attached below to the disk ; stamens one to 

 five, generally protruding beyond the co- 

 rolla ; ovaries combined within the united 



calyx-tubes, each one-celled with a single 

 ovule ; style very short ; stigmas two, elon- 

 gated, filiform. Fruit leathery crowned by 

 the common calyx, three-celled with three 

 erect seeds. The epigynous disk before 

 mentioned separates from the axis support- 

 ing it like a little lid, whence the name of 

 the genus from the Greek poma, 'a lid,' or 

 operculum. One of the species is in culti- 

 vation as a greenhouse plant. This genus, 

 with its near ally Opercidaria, is very 

 curious in a botanical point of view, as the 

 nature of their inflorescence shows an 

 affinity to that of Umbelliferce or Compo- 

 site; with Valerianacem they are con- 

 nected by their variable number of sta- 

 mens, single ovules, and other characters, 

 while they resemble some species of Loni- 

 cera in the fusion of their flowers by means 

 of the calyx-tube. [M. T. M.] 



POME. An inferior fleshy many-celled 

 fruit, like that of the Apple. 

 POMEGRANATE. Punica Granatum, 



POMELLE, or PAMELLE. (Fr.) Eor- 

 deum distichon. - 



POMELLOES. A name under which 

 Forbidden-fruit, the smaller-sized Shad- 

 docks, are sometimes sold in this country. 



POMERANGE. A German name for the 

 Orange. 



POMERIDIAN. Occurring in the after- 

 noon. 



POMME. (Fr.) The fruit of the Apple, 

 Pyrus Malus. — D'ADAM. A variety of 

 Citrus Limetta. — D' AMOUR. Ly coper si- 

 cum esculentum. — DE CANELLE. Ano- 

 na muricata. — DE FLAN. Anona. — 

 DE LIANE. Passiflora laurifolia. — DE 

 MAT. Podophyllum peltatum. — DE MER- 

 VEILLE. Momordica Balsamina. — DE 

 PIN. The Cone of the Pine-tree. —,DE 

 TERR.E. Solatium tuberosum. — ^EPI- 

 NEUSE. Datura Stramonium. — ETOI- 

 LEE. Clirysophyllum. — ROSE. Jam- 

 bosa vulgaris. 



POMMETTE DE DOUX-CLOSES. (Fr.) 

 Crataegus Azarolus. 



POMMIER. (Fr.) The Apple, Pyrus 

 Malus. — DE LA CHINE. Pyrus specta- 

 bilis. — PORTE-BAIES. Pyrus baccata. 



POMPADOTJRA. (Fr.) Calycanthus flo- 

 ridus. 



POMPELMOUSE, or PAMPELMOUSE. 

 (Fr.) The Shaddock, Citrus decumana : es- 

 pecially applied to the larger-sized fruits. 



POMPION. The Pumpkin, Cucurbita 

 Pepo. 



POMPOLEON. The larger-sized fruits of 

 the Shaddock, Citrus decumana. 



PONCEAU. (Fr.) Papaver Bhceas. 



PONCELETIA. An epacridaceous genus 

 containing a single species, P. sprengelidr 

 ides, which has a flve-leaved calyx sur- 

 rounded by small bracts ; a short campanu- 

 late fl ve-clef t smooth corolla; short stamens 



