XLII. TEREBINTHACE^. 



1. SPONDIAS SERIES. 



Pistachia tercbmffms (Fr. Tércbiutlio), from which this family 

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

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

 only found in the Spondias"- (fig. 260, 261), and some closely allied 

 genera. The flowers are regular, 

 hermaphrodite or polygamous, with 

 foiu- 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- 

 lobed disk, and a bilocular introrse 

 anther dehiscent by two longi- 

 tudinal slits. Inside the disk is 

 found a gynseceum with five oppo- 



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

 very slight extent, in theii' ovary ; whUst the style is free, marked 

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



Fis. 259. Female Floi-iferous branch. 



1 Spoiidins L. ''l'en. n. 377.— J. Oeii. 272.— 

 G.œ;rtn. Fruct. ii. t. 103, 104.— Lamk. Did. iv. 

 2.59 ; Suppl. iii. 725 ; III. t. 384.— K. in Aim. 

 S. Nat. sér. 1. ii. 363.— DC. Prodr. ii. 75.— 

 TuBP. in Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. ?63.— Endl. 

 Oen. n. 5920.— B. H. Geii. 426, 1001, n. 36.— 

 VOL. V. 



H. Bn. in Pai/er Fam. Nat. 408. — Maech. Ana- 

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

 Fl. Maiin't. 62.— Adans. Fam. des PL ii. 841 

 (incl. : Cythcrœa DC. Evia Commebs. Lanneoma 

 Del. Poupartia Commebs. Shakua Boj.) JTirt- 

 f/enia JunGH.), 



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