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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
or condensed cyme. Flowers perfect, usually regular, but pass more 
or less to irregular, sometimes very irregular as in genus Cuphea\ 
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 cavi¬ 
ties 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 
Fig. 219. —Punica granatum —Branch with flowers. (Sayre.) 
capsule, dehiscing longitudinally or transversely. Seeds exal- 
buminous. 
Official drug 
Granatum 
Unofficial 
Granati Fructus 
Cortex 
Henna 
Part used 
Bark 
Rind of fruit 
Leaves 
Botanical origin 
Punica Granatum 
Punica Granatum 
Lawsonia inermis 
Habitat 
India 
India 
Egypt, Arabia 
