3^6 PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
sepals five to four, more or less fused below in themselves and with 
calyx tube; petals commonly five, often frilled or crumpled, inserted 
on the mouth of the calyx tube; stamens fifteen, ten or five in alter- 
nate rows of five each, inserted hypogynously or perigynously; 
pistil six-, five-, four-, two-, rarely one-carpeled with as many cavities 
in the ovary and numerous small ovules; style elongate with pointed 
or knobbed stigma. Flowers of Punica granatum are scarlet in color. 
Fruit a baccate capsule ( Punica granatum) or capsule dehiscing longi- 
tudinally or transversely. Seeds exalbuminous. 
Official drug Part used Botanical origin 
Granatum Bark Punica Granatum 
Unofficial 
Granati Fructus Rind of fruit Punica Granatum 
Cortex 
Myrtacece or Myrtle Family. — Rarely herbs {Carey a) mostly 
shrubs or trees, some being the tallest trees known ( Eucalyptus ). 
Stems often tend to develop cork in flakes which separate much as 
in the Buttonwoods. Leaves rarely alternate nearly always oppo- 
site, entire often glistening, subcoriaceous to coriaceous {Euca- 
lyptus, Pimento, etc.), frequently edge-on in position upon branches. 
Inflorescence cymose, at times forming scorpoid cymes becoming 
condensed into small fascicles, or each cyme condensing into a 
solitary flower. 
Flowers regular or very rarely irregular from the lop-sided 
development of the stamens. Symmetry rarely hexamerous, 
typically pentamerous, not infrequently reduced to tetramerous 
{Clove)-, sepals five, six or four, aposepalous, or synsepalous at base, 
superior, and inserted around the edge of an expanded, upgrown 
receptacular disc, varying from green and more or less expanded 
to short thick fleshy {Clove) or reduced to teeth {Eucalyptus) ; petals 
equal in number to the sepals, more or less petaloid and enlarged, 
rarely reduced and wanting, varying in color from green through 
greenish-yellow to white {Eugenia species) or from whitish to pink, 
scarlet, crimson, purple and blue, petals sometimes synpetalous 
and cup-like, detaching as the flower opens; stamens usually indefi- 
nite and epigynous, varying in the color of their filaments as do the 
Habitat 
India 
India 
