502 3 TEREBINTACEH (Sond.) [Phylica. 
upper dense, straight or at point recurved. Capitulum as large as a cherry, solitary, 
or often several aggregated. ‘Leaves of the involucre very similar to the other 
leaves, but thinner. Calyx 4 lines long, sub-silky-tomentose; tube 3 lines long, 
equalling the linear bracteole ; limb reddish or purple within. Anthers 1-celled. 
Style filiform, as long as the calyx tube; stigma capitate, sub-lobed. Capsule 
roundish, sub-trigonous, velvetty-tomentose, the size of a pea. Very like some species _ 
of Gnidia. 
58. P. abietina (E. & Z.! 1013); branches fastigiate ; twigs umbel- 
late, very minutely pubescent ; leaves approximate, spreading, linear, 
obtuse, apiculate with inflexed point, sub-terete, with revolute margins, 
glabrous, downy beneath ; flowers capitate ; leaves of the involucre 
greenish, petiolate, inner petioles longer, hirsute ; bracteolz hirsute ; 
calyx white-tomentose, elongated, segments hirsute, oblong-lanceolate, 
spreading ; petals cucullate. 
Has. Stony places, sides of Mount Winterhoeksberg, near villa ‘“ Viljoen,” Uit. 
E.G Z.!' Feb. (Herb. Sond.) 
: Shrub erect, about 2 feet high, greyish. Leaves deciduous, 1} line long, with 
rigid point, the uppermost imbricate. Capitulum as in the preceding, solitary, never 
several aggregate: Calyx 3 lines long. Anthers 1-celled. Style as long as the tube. 
_ Habit nearly that of P. ericoides, but leaves and heads very different. 
: Phylica spec. 6784, Herd. Drege, is similar to P. afinis ; the specimens are insuffi- 
cient. P. nitida, Lam./ ill. n. 2613, is not a Cape plant ; in Herb. Wildenow and 
others are specimens of the same species from the Mauritius. P. elongata, Willd.! 
P. squamosa, Willd.! P. globosa, Thunb.! P. trichotoma, Thunb.! are Brumiacee. 
Trichocephalus verticillatus, E. & Z.! 1003 is a Stilbacea. 
OrpeR XLVI. TEREBINTACEZ, Juss. 
(By W. Sonver.) 
(Terebintaceze, Juss. DC. Prod. 2. p. 62. Anacardiacese and Bur- 
seracee, Endl. Gen. cexlv. ecxlvi. Anacardiacese and Amyridacew, Lindl 
Veg. Kingd. clxxiv. clxxi.) 7 
Flowers regular, generally unisexual, rarely complete. Calyx free or 
connate with the lower half of the pistil, 3-5-parted, persistent, imbri- 
cate, sometimes enlarged in fruit. Petals 3-5, surrounding a fleshy 
dise, spreading imbricate, mostly deciduous. Stamens inserted with the 
petals, as many or twice as many, rarely more; filaments subulate ; 
anthers introrse, 2-celled, opening lengthwise. Ovary mostly free, of one 
carpel or of two to five consolidated carpels, some abortive; styles or 
stigmas as many as the carpels ; ovale solitary or in pairs, pendulous, 
_ Fruit drupaceous, rarely dry. Seed exalbuminous, with fleshy cotyle- 
_ dons and radicle next the hilum. 
Trees or shrubs with resinous, often caustic and milky juices. Leaves alternate, 
poem mostly pinnate or trifoliate, with or without minute stipules. Flowers 
7 oe fo anicles, racemes, or spikes. An extensive tropical or sub-tropi- 
; oo sega Se apthcgdhennermatgar anergy Aa northern hem1- 
phere. +e genus Rhus is almost cosmopolitan. Several have esculent fruit, of 
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