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PISTACIA LENTISCUS. 
MASTICH TREE 
Ex qua fluit Mastiche, Pharm. Loud. & Edinb.. 
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: 
S TNO NTMA. Lentifcus vul 
g 
Bauh. Tin. p. 3 gg 
Inft. p. 580. Lentifcus. Cluf.Hifl.i.p 
4 
Du liamel Arbres. t. u tab 
144 
/3 Piftacia maffilienjis , follis 
latis. 
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JDod.Pe?npt.p,$j 
Conf. Tournef. Voyage du Lev 
i : 
pinnatis: foliolis lineari-lanceo 
4 ■ 
Na rro w-lea ve d Ma stic h-Tr ee. 
Mill Diet. 
Alton. Hort. Kew 
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Clafs Dioecia. Ord. Pentandria* Lin. Gen* Plant. 1108. 
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EJl Gen, Ch. Ma s c. Amenti. Cal. 5-fidus. 
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or, o. 
fc j 
F'e AT, dlftin&a, Cal 3-fidus. Cor. o. %//2. Dr/z/** 
monoiperma. 
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Sp. Cb. 
P. follis abrupte pinnatis : foliolis lanceolatis. 
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THIS tree, which feldom exceeds a foot in diameter, rifes 
twelve fe 
height ; 
it is 
ered with a fmooth brown bark, and 
towards the top fends off numerous branches : the leaves are regularly 
pinnated, and confift of feveral pairs of narrow ovate oppofite pinns 
**l r\4 £sl tit s\4~4-s* ^T-% ^ A 4-^ ^.H- -. C .nil 1 • 1 • • 1 C 1 • . 
ely attached 
th a narrow fol 
common footftalk, which is winged or fupplied 
expanfi 
the male flowers are placed 
an amentum or open catkin : the calyx (proper) is divided into five 
minute ovate fegments : the filaments are five, fometimes four, very 
fi 
the anth 
are 
form : the female flow 
ge, bro 
eel:, and of a quadrang 
like thofe of th 
have no corolla, 
der: thecaly 
and are placed upon the common peduncle in alternat 
confifts of three fmall fquamous fegments : the germen is egg-fhaped 
larger 
