a ANACARDIACEZ:. 
Alah of the old Testament. Among its products, the kernels — 
were regarded by Dioscorides as unwholesome, though agree- 
able in taste. By pressing them, the original Oi of Turpen- — 
tine, TepeBivewov @daov, a mixture of essential and fat oil was — 
obtained, as it is in the East to the present day. The resin= — 
ous juice of the stem and branches, the true, primitive ture 
pentine, fyrivy reppw6ion, was celebrated as the finest of all ana — 
lagous products, and preferred both to mastich and the pinic 
resins, (Pharmacographia.) The tree was held in veneration — 
__ by the Jews ; Abraham raised an altar to Jehovah near @ grove 
of Pistacia trees in the valley of Hebron; their dead were — 
buried near the tree. Pliny (18, 12,) notices the fruit of the 2 
Terebinthus as well as the galls, ‘from which issue certain 
insects like gnats,” also a kind of resinous liquid which oozes _ 
from the bark. Again (24, 18,) he says:—‘ The leaves and roob 
of the Terebinthus are used as applications for gatherings, and 
a decoction of them is strengthening to the stomach. e 
seed is taken in wine for headache and strangury: . 
‘slightly laxative and acts as an aphrodisiac.” Aitchison tells 
us that P. Terebinthus occurs in groups on the low hills of 
Persia and Afghanistan, the kernels are roasted and eaten, 
and their oil expressed and used with food. “The leaves are 
used in tanning and dyeing, and on their margins are formed 2 
‘small galls quite distinct from those of P. vera. These small 
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gent and restorative. A small quantity of true mastich is 
imported into India from Turkey. : 
: ‘Description,—The general appearance of Cabul mastich 
