CAT.YCIFLOR.f: 



In its mode of growth-, it resembles the preceding. 

 Branches glabrous/ angular, coloured, armed with re- 

 curved prickles. Leaves pinnato-ternate; leaflets ovate 

 attenuated at the apex, sharply serrated, armed on the un- 

 der surface of th° mid-rib with curved prickles, glabrous. 

 Stipules setaceous. Flowers panicled, numerous, white, 

 with a purplish tinge; branches slightly woolly. Caly- 

 cine segments lanceolate, slightly woolly. Fruit smaller 

 than in the preceding species, but of a deeper purple. 



This is very readily distinguished from the preceding 

 species by the almost entire absence of woolliness, and by 

 the purple tinge of the branches and panicles. 



ORDER LXVI. GRANATEiE. 



Calycine tube turbinate ; limb 5-7— fid ; aestiva- 

 tion valvular. Petals 5-7 Stamens oo # , anthers 

 on the fore part of the filament, 2-celled, Style 

 filiform ; stigma capitate, papillose. Fruit crown- 

 ed with the subtubulose limb of the calyx, and 

 with the outer rind formed by the same 5 indehis- 

 cent, divided into two unequal chambers by a 

 horizontal diaphragm ; the upper chamber subdi- 

 vided by membranaceous partitions into 5-9 cells $ 

 the lower one into 11 cells. Seeds innumerable, 

 berried in a pellucid subcristalline pulp, exalbu- 

 minous 5 embryo oblong *, radicle short, straight ; 

 cotyledons leafy, spirally convoluted. 



Low trees or shrubg, with branches subtetragonal and 

 subspinescent ; and with leaves impunctate, and destitute 

 of a marginal nerve. — This order was established by Mr. 

 Don, and has been adopted by De Candolle. It compre- 

 hends only two plants, the common and the Dwarf Pome- 

 granate. They have been more recently replaced among 

 the Myrtaceae, and Dr Lindley has given it as his opinion, 

 that they do not require to be distinguished from the true 

 members of that tribe, even as a section. Notwithstanding 

 this, I prefer, for obvious reasons, retaining the arrange- 

 of De Candolle. 



