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* Leaves membranous^ appearing with Jlowers. 



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

 truncate at base, palinately 5-lobed, .06 broad, glaucous below, deard- 

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

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

 ward. 



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



■wings somewhat divergent — Subal])ine Lebanon. 



* * Leaves coriaceous^ rather later than flowers. 



2. A. Monspessulanum, L. 5 3 to 8. Leaves rounded or 



somewhat heart-shaped at base, 



palmately 3-lobed, .04 broad, the Fig. 86. 



lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse, entire or 

 repand, the lower surface puber- 

 ulent, glaucous, the upper gla- 

 brous, ghining. Keys with erect 

 or divergent wings, scarcely .03 

 long — Woods ; Lebanon, Anti- 

 lebanon, Cassius, Amanus, and 

 northward. 



Var. mi c r o p li y 1 1 u m, 



Boiss. Leaves scarcely .02 broad. 



S. A. Syriacum, Boiss. 

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

 brous, shining above green on Key of a. Syriacum. 

 both sides, persistent, rounded- 



cuneate at base, obovate, apex truncate, .05 broad, withd, short, broad, 

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

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



2. STAPHYL.EA, L. Bladder-Nut. 



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

 many ovuled, styles 3-B, 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 Leaflets 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. ANACARDIACE^E, Eitol. (Cashew Family.) 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate dotless leaves (usually 

 pinnate), a resinous or acrid juice, small, often polygamous 

 regular jlowers, a minute, persistent, ZA-fid calyx, petals as 

 numerous as calyx-loles, inserted oji the calyx, ^ valvate, some- 

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

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



