XLII. TEREBINTHACE.E. 



1. SPONDIAS SEEIES. 



Fistacia vim. 



Pistackia terebintkus (Fr. Terebinthe), from which this family 

 derives its name, belongs to the genus Pistacia (fig. 259, 314-317) ; 

 but this is far fi.-om being the most complete type known, that being 

 only found in the Sjmndia-s^ (fig. 260, 2G1), and some closely allied 

 genera. The flowers are regular, 

 hermaphi'odite or polygamous, with 

 four or, more often, five parts. 

 In the latter the convex receptacle 

 bears fi'om below upwards : a calyx 

 with five divisions, more or less 

 deep, imbricate in the bud ; five 

 alternate petals, valvate or slightly 

 imbricate on the feather-like edges, 

 and ten stamens superposed, five 

 to the divisions of the calyx and 

 five to the petals. They are each 

 formed of a free filament, inserted 

 outside the base of a large five- 

 lobcd disk, aud a bilocular introrse 

 anther dehiscent by two longi- 

 tudinal slits. Inside the disk is 

 found a gyna)ccum with five oppo- 

 sitipetalous carpels ; they are united, sometimes, it is true, to a 

 very slight extent, in their ovary ; whilst the style is free, marked 

 in the ulterior by a mesial groove, longitudinal, and more or 



Fiir. 2.39. Fcmalu Floriferous brunch. 



' Spoiidins L. Oen. n. 37',— J. Gen. 272. — 

 G^iiTX. Frucl. ii. t. 103, 101. — Lamk. Diet. iv. 

 2.59 ; Suppl. iii. 72.5 ; III. t. 384.— K. in A„)i. 

 S. Nat. ser. 1. ii. 363.— DC. Prmlr. ii. 75.— 

 TuKi'. in Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 263.— Endl. 

 Qen. n. 5920.— B. H. Ocn. 426, 1001, n. 36.- 



VOL. V. 



H. Bn. in Payer Fam. flat. 408. — M.vkch. Ana- 

 card. 21, 158.— Plvm. Gen. 44. t. 22.— Bakeu, 

 Fl. Maiiiit. 62.— Adans. Fcim. de.s PL ii. 841 

 (incl. : Cijtiicraa DC. Fi'ia Commers. Laiincoma 

 Del. Poiipartia Commer.s. Shal;ua Bo.i.) Wirt- 

 (jiiiitt ,Ii;xoir.), 



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