ANACARDIACEAE. 185 
ScH1nus. Pepper Tree. 
(Family Anacardiaceae). 
Tender round-topped rather 
weeping trees, pungently § aro- 
matic, glabrous: evergreen. Twigs 
slender, roundish, zig-zag: pith 
rather small, more or less 3- 
angled, continuous, white when 
fresh. Buds superposed, the up- 
per commonly developing  pre- 
cociously, round-ovoid or oblong, 
much flattened, with 2 scales, the 
end-bud absent. Leaf-scars alter- 
nate, often 2-ranked, crescent- 
shaped, slightly raised: bundle- 
traces 3, large or often compound: 
stipule-scars lacking. Leaves pet- 
ioled, odd-pinnate with pointed 
leaflets. Fruit glossy round 
drupes of the size of peas, in 
rather large panicles or racemed. 
Broken leaflets, thrown on wa- 
ter, are a source of interest, the 
explosive liberation of the volatile oil that they contain 
causing them to dart forward on the surface. 
Leaves of many leafiets: fruit panicled. (1). S. Molle. 
Leaves of about 7 leaflets: fruit racemed. S. Terebinthifolius. 
