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128- Fistacia Lentiscus, L- 



a. Leafy branchlet, with flowers. Three specimens. 



(1 ) Toulon, May, 1856. (2) With flattened leaf galls. Grasse, 

 6 July, 1857. (3) Ditto. South of France ; A. C. H., 

 18.58. 

 h. Leafy branchlets, with flowers. 



(1) Toulon, May, 1854 ; J. H. (2) Toulon, 2 Mar., 1866 ; 

 W. F. Saunders. 

 c. Leafy branchlet, \vith fruit. 



Caiffji, 15 Oct., 1860 ; Dr. J. D. Hooker and D. Hanbm-y. 

 " Slopes of the hill on which the Convent stands ; forms a 

 small bush."' 



127. Pistacia Terebinthus, L. 



o and b. Twigs with leaves from the same shrub. 



These show extreme variation in the shape and size of 



leaves on the same branchlet and on separate 



branchlets. 

 Monaco, 27 Oct., 1871. 



c. Branchlets, ^vith young fruit. (1) From a tree with a 



stem as thick as a man's body, near the valley of the 

 Crati. Calabria, 5 May, 1872. 

 (2) Branchlet, wth young frmt and leaf galls. From 

 the grounds of the . Instituto Agi-ario Castelnuovo, 

 near Palermo, 21 May, 1872. 



d. Branchlets with fruits (and detached fruits imported 



from Bussorah, 1873). 

 Smyrna ; S. H. Maltass, 1857. 



e. Branchlets with flowers and fruit. 



Vaucluse, May, 1854. Pont du Gard, 30 May, 1856. 

 /. (1) Twigs with flowers and a leafy twig, and (2) detached 

 fruits. 

 (1) Villeneuve les Auvergnes, Vaucluse, May, 1856. (2) 

 Congenies, Gard, Oct., 1849. 

 g. Twig with fruit and large-leaved twig. 



Smyrna, 21 Sept., 1860 ; Dr. J. D. Hooker, Balansa, and 

 D. Hanbury. "Very large and handsome trees. The 

 turpentine is sometimes collected from them as 

 incisions in the tnink show." 

 h. Branchlets with fruit and palmate galls on the leafbuds. 

 Jerusalem, 22 Oct., 1860; Dr. J. D. Hooker and D. 

 Hanbury. 

 "These specimens I gathered from a large solitary tree growing in the 

 yard of a coffee house between the Jaffa and Damascus gates. The tree 

 was covered with these remarkable coralloid galls. I observed the same 

 kind of gall on a terebinth at Safed."— D. H. 



