$0 ORD. II. Amentacee. PISTACIA TEREBINTHUS 
Class Dioecia. Ord. Pentandria. Zin. Gen. Plant. 1108. 
Ess. Gen. Ch, Mase. Amenti. Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. 0. 
= } Fem. Distincta. Cal. 3-fidus. Cor. 0. Styli 2. 
Drupa monosperma. 
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. Sp. Ch. P. foliis impari-pinnatis: foliolis ovato lanceolatis. 
THIS is a much larger tree than the preceding species; it sends 
off many long spreading branches,* and is covered with smooth bark: 
the leaves are pinnated, ‘consisting of ovate lance-shaped, veined, 
entire, opposite pinne, with an odd one at the end: the flowers 
are male and female on different trees, and in their essential parts 
‘correspond with the description given of those of the P.. Lentiscus. : 
It is a native of Barbary and the South of Europe, and has been 
cultivated in Britain more than sixty years.t It is more hardy than 
the P. 7 and if Lona against a wall, it bears our winters 
very well. 
Cyprus, or “Chian “Turpentine which this tree furnishes, is pro- | 
cured by wounding the bark of the trunk of the tree, in several 
places, in the month of July, leaving a space of about three inches 
a, between each wound; from these the Turpentine issues, and is re- 
ceived upon stones, which are placed at the bottom of the tree for 
this purpose, and upon which it becomes so much condensed by 
oe the coldness of the night, as to admit of being scraped off with a 
= knife in the morning, which is always to be done before the sun rises: 
after this, in order to free it of all extraneous admixture, it is again 
liquified by the sun’s heat, and passed through a strainer, when it is 
aed eenggertbainnnlreyet annie oid. 
* Le Brun tells us that it was “‘Je Terebinthe qui se courba pour donner plus ; 
Wombre a la S. Vierge, lors qu’allant de Bethlehem a Jerusalem pour porter son 
Fils au Temple, elle se voulut reposer sous cet arbre.” See Voyage au Levant. p. 284. Fs 
: ’ A 
+ See a Catalogue of Trees, Shrubs, &c. which are propagated for sale in the gar- 
dens near London, published in 1730, p. 78, Tercbinthus i, diton’s. Hort. Kew. 
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