TEREBINTH ACE JS. 293 



in most of their organs, it may be said tliat tlicy arc met with, 

 especially in the bark. This in Balsamea^ for instance, possesses a 

 liber zone plunged in the middle of a celhilar tissue full of gummy 

 resinous matter. There is also some in the pith. This matter may 

 even ooze out, the first year, by slits in the epidermis and the 

 "cork. But later, as is seen in B. Mijrrha^ " the production of balm 

 canijot take place in the herbaceous layers of preceding years, for 

 every year it makes an exfoliation throwing back the layers pre- 

 viously formed." Every where where there is any living parenchyma 

 the resinous substance may be produced. The exfoliation of the ex- 

 terior layei's of the cortical parenchyma has been followed in the B. 

 Africana which gives hdelliwii ; it is produced in fragments. In the 

 Bosivellia pajii/rifera^ on the contrary, it is produced by large parch- 

 ment-like plates giving to the trunk of this tree the same appearance as 

 that of the Birch.- In the Phi/tocreneœ the organisation of the stems 

 is quite exceptional ; it has been corapared to that of the Meni- 

 spcnnacece and Bicfiioniaccœ. In Phytocrcne^ Griffith ^ has pointed 

 out what he calls enormous medullary rays, arranged symmetrically, 

 very thick and equally spaced (nine in number in a young stem of 

 P. gigmitca). They are composed of elongated cells, attenuated at 

 the summit crossed by striped ducts. The wood is very porous, 

 formed of numerous large tubules, pierced with slits plunged in its 

 punctate prosenchyma. There are distinct concentric zones in the 

 wood, each having their rays independent of those of the neighbour- 

 ing zone. The thick radiated lines, considered by Griffith to be 

 medullary rays, have been regarded •■ as belonging to the woody sys- 

 tem, and as forming the interior portion of a second ring of wood 

 developed outside the first.^ In the Phytocreneœ, as in the Mappieœ^ 

 the phenomena of being draAvn up which show themselves so fre- 

 quently in the leaves, and especially in the lateral branches, cause in 

 consequence, at certain levels, a transverse section to show not only 



' Mabch. in Adajisoiiia, vii. 261, t. 8. ^ FoTihea.na.i.ot I'/it/tocrem, see also: Gmff. 



'- The same author has observed an analogous li^utul. iv. 324. — Tiievir. in Bot. ZtU. (1847), 



arrangement of the balsamic substance, not 400; in Ann. Nat. Hist. séi. 2, i. 131. — Lindl. 



only in the stems of Pistacia, but also in certain Iidrod. i. 211, fig. ; Ver;. Kingd. 271. — H. Mohl. 



ç;A\\&oi P.Terebinthus {_Anai:ard.\b1,\.o). in But. Ziit. (1855).— Metten. Beitr. z. Bot. 



3 In irall. PI. As. liar. iii. 11, t. 216; Icon. (1850), 50. 



cccxc. — Raulk. in Floiu (1858), 206. — Onv. ^ On the structure of the branches of Gri- 



Stem, in Dicot. 29. solka, see II. Bn. in Adansonia, iv. 213. 



■• A. Juss. Monof/r. Mutj.ij!iiac. 122. 



