PISTACIA LENTISCUS. ORD. Il. Amentacee. 97 
6 Pistacia massiliensis, foliis abrupte pinnatis:  foliolis lineari-lan- 
ceolatis. Mill. Dict. 
Narrow-leaved Mastich Tree. Aiton. Hort. Kew: 
Class Dicecia. Ord. Pentandria. Zin. Gen. Plant. 1108. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Masc. Amenti. Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. 0 
Fem. distincta. Cal. 3-fidus. Cor. 0. Styli 2. Drupa 
monosperma. 
Sp. Ch. P. foliis abrupte pinnatis: foliolis lanceolatis. 
THIS tree, which seldom exceeds a foot in diameter, rises ten or 
twelve feet in height; it is covered with a smooth brown bark, and 
towards the top soods off numerous branches: the Jeaves are regularly 
pinnated, and consist of several pairs of narrow ovate opposite pinnz, 
closely attached to the common footstalk, which is winged or supplied 
with a narrow foliaceous expansion: the male flowers are placed in 
an amentum.or open catkin: the calyx (proper) is divided into five 
minute ovate segments: the filaments are five, sometimes four, very 
shert: the antherz are large, brown, erect, and of a quadrangular 
form: the female flowers, like those of the male, have no corolla, and 
are placed upon the common peduncle in alternate order: the calyx 
consists of three small squamous segments: the germen is egg-shaped, 
larger than the calyx, and: supports two or three styles, terminated by 
reflexed clubbed stigmata: the fruit is of the drupous kind, con- 
taining an egg-shaped smooth nut. The flowers appear in May, and 
the fruit ripens in August. 
This tree, which is a native of the South of Europe and _ the 
Levant, appears by Evelyn's Kalendarium Hortense td have been 
~ cultivated in Britain in 1664;* but in this country it is of slow vege- 
tation, and seldom healthy enough to give us a competent idea of the 
plant in its natural situation, so that we have been enabled to publish 
*See Aiion’s Hort. Kew. 
