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2. PZSTACZA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, pinnate, or 3-foliate. Flowers 

 small, apetalous in axillary racemes or panicles, dioecious. MALE FL. Calyx 

 3-5-fid. Stamens 3-7. Disk small. Rudiment of Ovary minute or '0. FEM. 

 PL. bracteate. Sepals 3-4. Stamens and Disk 0. Ovary sessile, 1-celled ; style 

 short, 3-fid, stigmas capitate, recurved ; ovule pendidous from a basal funicle. 

 Drupe dry; stone bony. Seed with a membranous testa; cotyledons thick, 

 oily, curved. DISTKIB. Species about 6, natives of Western Asia and the 

 Mediterranean region, and one Mexican. 



Several species of this genus, allied to Mediterranean forms, are found in Affghan- 

 istan and Beluchistan, but do not cross the frontier. The seeds of P. vera, L. the 

 Pistachio-nut, are imported into N. Western India. 



P. integ-errima, Steivart in Brandts For. Flor. 122, t. xxii. ; leaflets 

 4-5 pairs lanceolate caudate-acuminate. Rhus integerrima, Wall. Cat. 8474. 

 K. Kakrasingee, Royle 111. 175. 



NORTH-WESTERN FRONTIER ; Peshwur valley and Salt range. WESTERN HIMA- 

 LAYA; alt. 1200 to 8000* ft., from the Indus to Kumaon, usually on hot slopes. 



A nearly glabrous tree, 40 ft. and upwards. Leaves 6-9 in., with or without a 

 terminal leaflet ; petiole terete, puberulous ; leaflets sub-opposite, petiolulate, coria- 

 ceous, quite entire, base oblique ; nerves many, arched. Panicles lateral ; $ compact, 

 pubescent ; $ lax, elongate ; flowers pedicelled, with 2 ovate bracts. Stamens 5-7, fila- 

 ments short ; anthers large, dark red. FEM. ix. Sepals 4, linear, and bracts deci- 

 duous. Style almost 3-partite. Drupe in., broader than long, glabrous, rugose, 

 grey. Wood very hard and handsome. 



3. MANG-EFERJL, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, petioled, quite entire, coriaceous. Flowers small, 

 polygamous in terminal panicles, pedicel articulate ; bracts ^deciduous. Calyx 

 4-5 partite ; segments imbricate, deciduous. Petals 4-5, free or adnate to the 

 disk, imbricate ; nerves thickened, sometimes ending in excrescences. Stamens 

 1-5, rarely 8, inserted just within the disk, or on it, 1 rarely more perfect and 

 much larger than the others, the others with imperfect or smaller anthers, or 

 reduced to teeth. Ovary sessile, 1-celled, oblique ; style lateral ; ovule pendu- 

 lous, funicle basal, inserted on the side of the cell above its base, rarely hori- 

 zontal. Drupe large, fleshy ; stone compressed, fibrous. Seed large, compressed, 

 testa papery ; cotyledons plano-convex, often unequal and lobed. DISTKIB. A 

 tropical Asiatic, chiefly Malayan genus, of about 30 species. 



Of the species here described some may be referable to Malayan ones that are 

 imperfectly described by Blume and others. The genus is a very difficult one, and 

 the Malayan species want careful revision with many specimens. 



SECT. 1. Disk tumid, usually 5-lobed, broader than the ovary. Petals free 

 from the disk, inserted at its base. 



* Petals with 1-5 free or confluent ridges that do not end in wart-like ex- 

 crescences. 



f Panicle pubescent or tomentose. 



1. ZSE. in die a, Linn. ; leaves oblong or linear-oblong or elliptic or obo- 

 Tate-lanceolate obtuse acute or acuminate, panicle usually tomentose, petals 5 

 with 3 ridges, stamens 1 fertile and 4 reduced to short capitate subulate 

 filaments, style sub-terminal. Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 641; W. $ A. P)-odr. 170; 



