ANACARDIACE^. (CASHEW FAMILY.) 



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Fig. 86. 



* Leaves memtranous, appearing with flowers. 



1. A. Hyrcanum, F. & M. 5 5 to 6. Leaves heart-shaped or 

 truncate at base, palmately 5-lobed, .06 broad, glaucous below, leard- 

 ed at the axils of the nerves, the lobes coarsely serrate or cut. Wings of 

 fruit erect, nearly connivent, .03 long — Spring — Amanus and north- 

 ward. 



Var. Reygassei, Boiss, Leaves truncate at base. Keys smaller, 



wings somewhat divergent — Subal})ine Lebanon. 



* * Leaves coriaceous, rather later than flowers. 



2. A. Mon8pe§sulanuin, L. 5 3 to 8. Leaves rounded or 

 somewhat heart-shaped at base, 

 palmately 3-lobed, .04 broad, the 

 lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse, entire or 

 repand, the lower surface puber- 

 ulent, glaucous, the upper gla- 

 brous, shining. Keys with erect 

 or divergent wings, scarcely .03 

 long — Woods ; Lebanon, Anti- 

 lebanon, Cassius, Amanus, and 

 northward. 



Var. micropliylliiin, 

 Boiss. Leaves scarcely .03 broad. 



3. A. Syriacum, Boiss. 

 efc. Gain, 5 5 to 8. Leaves gla- 

 brous, shining above, green on 

 both sides, persistent, rounded- 

 cuneate at base, obovate, apex truncate, . 05 broad, with 3, short, broad, 

 obtuse or acutish lobes. Keys with somewhat divergent wings, scarcely 

 .03 long —Spring — Woods ; Palestine ; Lebanon. 



2. STAPHYLEA, L. Bladder-Nut. 



Sepals 5, deciduous. Petals 5. Ovary 3-3-parted to base, cells 

 many ovuled, styles 3-3, rarely free ; stigmas capitate. Capsule stip- 

 itate, bladdery-inflated, 3-3-lobed and celled, the cells splitting at the 

 tip of the ventral suture. Seeds globular, with a bony testa — Shrubs 

 with trefoil or pinnate leaves. 



S. pinnata, L. 5 Leafleta 5-7, remote, oblong-lanceolate, ser- 

 rulate at base, puberulent at under surface. Racemes terminal, long- 

 peduncled, ovate, pendulous. Lobes of capsule connivent — Spring 

 — Hedges and shady places ; Amanus and northward. 



Order XXXIII. ABTACARDIACE^, Ekdl. (Cashew Family.) 



Trees oy shruhs^ with alternate dotless leaves (usually 

 pinnate)., a resinous or acrid juice, small, often ijolygamous 

 regidar flowers, a minute, persistent, 2>A-fid calyx, petals as 

 numerous as calyxdohes, inserted on the calyx, valvate, some- 

 times 0, and a 1-celled 1-ovuled ovary, with 1 or more 

 stigmas or styles — Disk ring-shaped or torus-like. Stamens 



Key of A. Syriacum. 



