. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 456 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. south of London, it may be planted as a standard bush on the open lawn, or in the shrubbery. Order XXVIII. GRANATA^CE^. Orb. Char. Calyx 5—7-cleft, tube turbinate, limb tubular ; sestivation val- vate. Petals 5—7. Stamens indefinite, free. Style f
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 456 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. south of London, it may be planted as a standard bush on the open lawn, or in the shrubbery. Order XXVIII. GRANATA^CE^. Orb. Char. Calyx 5—7-cleft, tube turbinate, limb tubular ; sestivation val- vate. Petals 5—7. Stamens indefinite, free. Style filiform. Stigma capitate. Fruit large, spherical, divided horizontally into two compartments, lower part 3-ceTled; upper part 5—9-celled. Seeds numerous, covered with pellucid baccate pulp. Albumen wanting. Differs from il/yrtaceae in the leaves being without dots. {G. Don.) Leaves simple, opposite or alternate, exstipulate, deciduous; lanceolate, entire. Flowers terminal, scarlet. — Shrubs or low trees, natives of Africa. Genus I. ^ PITNICA Tourn. The Pomegranate Tree. Lin. Syst. Tcosandria Monogynia. Identification. Touni. Inst., t. 401.; Dec. Prod., 3. p. 3. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 663. Synonymes. The Carthaginian Apple ; Grenadier, Fr. ; firanate, Ger. ; Melograno, Ital ; Grana- dos, Span. Derivation. Pilnica is said, in the Nouveau Du Hamel, to be derived either from puniceus, scarlet, in allusion to the scarlet colour of the flowers ; or from the same word, or Punicus, both signify- ing '• of Carthage ;" near which city, Pliny tells us, it was first found. Gen. Char. Same as that of the order. Leaves simple, opposite, sometimes whorled or alternate, exstipulate, deci- duous ; oblong, entire. Flowers terminal, scarlet, with numerous stamens. — Low deciduous trees or shrubs, indigenous to Africa, and naturalised in the South of Europe. t 1. P. Granatdm L. The common Pomegranate Tree. Mentification. Lin. Sp., 676. ; Dec. Prod., 3. p. 3.; Don's Mill., 2. p. 683.
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