184 ANACARDIACEAE. 
Pistacra. Mastic. 
(Family Anacardiaceae). 
Tender gummy aromatic shrubs 
or small trees: evergreen or de- 
ciduous. Twigs moderate, round- 
ish: pith small, round, continu- 
ous. Buds solitary, sessile, ovoid, 
with several scales, the end-bud 
lacking. Leaf-scars alternate, 
crescent-shaped, somewhat raised: 
bundle-trace 1, compound, or a 
curved series: stipule-scars lack- 
ing. When leaves are present 
they are odd-pinnate. 
Like Mangifera and Schinus, 
Pistacia is cultivated only in the 
warmer parts of the country. Be- 
sides the mastic species, P. vera 
which yields the pistachio nuts of 
confectioners is coming into cul- 
tivation, in selected varieties, in 
California. 
Another, but very tender, mem- 
ber of the Anacardiaceae, capable of growth only in the 
extreme subtropical parts of our country, is the small tree 
Anacardium occidentale, that yields the now rather familiar 
cashew nuts, and, in the tropics, the brilliant red or yellow 
cashew “apples” which are the enlarged flower-stalks or re- 
ceptacles. This color contrast recalls strikingly that of sweet 
peppers, tomatoes, holly-berries, etc., in which a normal bril- 
liant red coloration is replaced by an equally brilliant yellow. 
Deciduous, very resinifluous. P. Terebinthus. 
Evergreen. (1). P. Lentiscus. 
