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2. PISTACZA. Linn. 



- '■ Trees or shruts. Leaves alternate^ exstipulate, pinnate, or 3-foliate. Floioera 

 small, apetalous in axillary racemes or panicles, dioecious. Male fl. Calyx 

 3-5-fi(i. Stamens 3-7. Disk small. Rudiment of Ovary minute or 0. Fem. 

 PL^ bracteate. Sepals 3-4. Stamens and Z)tsZ; 0. Ovary sessile, 1-celled ; style 

 *^ort, 3-fid, stigmas capitate, recurved; ovule pendulous from a basal funicle. 

 -Drw^e dry ; stone bony. Seed with a membranous testa ; cotyledons thick, 

 oily, curved. Distkib. Species about 6, natives of Western Asia and the 

 Mediterranean region, and one Mexican. 



; ^^y^ral species of this genus, allied to Mediterranean forms, are found in AfFghah- 



' istan and Beluchistan, but do not cross the frontier. The seeds of P. vera, L. the 



Pistachio-nut, are imported into N. Western India. . , . 



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^•^ iuteg-errlma, Stetvart in Brarulis For. Flor. 122, t. xxii. ; leaflets 

 ^5 pairs lanceolate caudate-acuminate. Rhus integerrima, Wall. Cat. 8474. 

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North- Western" Frontier; Pesh-wur valley and .Salt range. - Western Hima-' 

 \^layaV alt. 1200 to 8000 ft., from the Indus to Kumaon, usually on hot slopes; -^-^ ; ■ 

 -.■^':M A nearly glabrous tree, 40 ft. and upwards. Leaves 6-9 in., with or -without a; 

 s*^?^^^l leaflet ; petiole terete, pubcrulous ; leaflets suL-opposite, petiolulate, coria-^ 

 ^. ceoug, quite entire, base oblique; nerves many, arched. Pawfcfes lateral ; $ compact, 

 f ?-¥^?^^t ; $ l<^x, elongate ; flowers pedicelled, with 2 ovate bracts. Stamens 5-7, fila- 

 ments short; anthers large, dark red. Fem. fl. Sepals 4, linear, and bracts deci- 

 ^uous.: r Style almost 3-partite. Drupe \ in., broader than long, glabrous, rugose, 

 €?^ey.— Wood very hard and handsome. . - - 



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Trees, Leaves alternate 







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, petioled, quite entire, coriaceous. Floivers small,^ 



^otygamous in terminal panicles, pedicel articulate; bracts 'deciduous. Calyx 

 ■4^5 partite; segments imbricate, deciduous. Petals 4:- 5^ free Graduate to the 

 ^K, imbricate ; nerves thickened, sometimes ending in excrescences. Stainens], 

 1-5, rarely 8, inserted just within the disk, or on it, 1 rarely more perfect ahcT* 

 inuch larger than the others, the others with imperfect or smaller anthers, or 

 Reduced to teeth. Ovary sessile, 1-celled, oblique; style lateral; ovule pendu- 

 wus, funicle basal, inserted on the side of the cell above its base, rarely hori- 

 zontal. Ihnipe large, fleshy ; stone compressed, fibrous. Seed large, compressed, 

 ^ta papery ; cotyledons plano-convex, often imequal and lobed. DisxJRiB. A 

 w^ofical Asiatic, chiefly Malayan genus, of about 30 species. . . ^ 



. Of the species here described some may be referable to Malayan ones that are 

 imperfectly described by Blume and others. The genus is a very difficult one, and 

 *ne Malayan species want careful re^-isi 



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^te-lanceolate obtuse acute or acuminate, panicle usually tomentose^ petals 5 

 _^tli 3 ridges, stamens 1 fertile and 4 reduced fo short capitate subulate, 

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