354 ONAGBACUJE. [Puuica. 



Flowers axillary, solitary or in clusters, sessile or shortly stalked, large, 

 orange-red. Oalj/x-tuhe funnel-shaped, coriaceous, adnate to the 

 ovary below ; lobes 5-7, persistent on the fruit. Petals 5-7, inserted 

 between the calyx-lobes, lanceolate, wrinkled. Stamens many, inserted 

 round the mouth of the calyx. Gvary inferior, with many cells, 

 in two whorls, or in a single whorl in P. protopunica ; style 

 long, stigma capitate ; oviM^es very many, 'placentas axile in some 

 cells in others parietal. Berry inferior, globose or elliptic. Seeds 

 many, angular ; testa coriaceous, with a watery outer coat. — Species 

 2, one in >Socotra and the undermentioned. An anomalous genus allied 

 to MyrtacecB through Psidium, and to Rosacece through Cydonia. 



P. Granatum, Linn.; Boxh. Fl. Ind. ii, 400; W. ^ A. Prod. 327 ; Royle 

 III. 208; Brand. For. Fl. 241; F.B. I. ii, 531; DO. L'Orig. PI. Cult. 189; 

 Watt E. D. — Vern. Andr (Pomegranate). 



A glabrous shrub or small tree, with dark-grey bark. Branchlets some- 

 times spinescent. Leaves 1-2 1 in. long, oblong or obovate, narrowed to 

 the short petiole, not dotted. Flowering calyx about 1 in. long, f in. 

 broad at its mouth. Petals ^-l in. long, thin, wrinkled, bright red, 

 rarely white or yellowish. Fruit 2-3^ in. in diam., globose, with a thick 

 coriaceous reddish-brown rind. Pulp red, or in some varieties white. . 



Cultivated in gardens within the area. Distbib. A native of Afganistan, 

 Baluchistan and Persia, and apparently wild in warm valleys in many 

 parts of the outer W. Himalaya, also in the hilly tracts of the Punjab 

 and Sind. Extensively cultivated in many parts of India, and in the 

 subtropical regions of the whole world. Flowers chiefly in April and 

 May, and the fruit ripens from July to September. The flowers and bark 

 are used in dyeing and tanning, and various parts of the tree are employed 

 medicinally. The fruit is produced in great perfection at Kandahar and 

 other places in Afganistan. 



LIL-ONAGRACEiE. 



Heebs, rarely undershrabs, sometimes aquatic. Leaves opposite or 

 alternate, entire or toothed, undivided, stipulate in Trapa. Flowers 

 hermaphrodite, mostly axillary and solitary, or spiked or racemed 

 towards the ends of the branches, subirregular. Calyx-iiibe wholly 

 adnate to the ovary (|-adnate in Trapa), limb of 2-5 valvate lobes. 

 Fetals epigynous, rarely 0. Stamens as many or twice as many as 

 the petals, inserted with them. Oviry inferior (^-infer. in Trapa), 

 1-6 celled, most often 4-celled ; style 1, cylindiuc or subulate ; stigma 

 capitate or nearly 2-lobed or 4- fid ; ovules 1 or many in each cell, pla- 

 centas axile. Fruit various, dehiscent or indehiscent, 1- or many-celled, 



