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racemes, each scale with one flower. Calyx 3—5-cleft. Stamens 5, inserted into 
a calycine disk, or into the calyx; with 4-cornered, almost sessile, anthers. 
Ovary 1—3-celled. Stagmas 3, and thickish. Fruit a dry ovate drupe; nut 
bony, and usually 1-celled, with a single seed affixed to the bottom. Coty- 
ledons thick, fleshy, oily, and bent back upon the radicle.— Small trees, 
natives of the South of Europe and Asia. 
Leaves compound, impari-pinnate, deciduous or evergreen; dying off of 
a beautiful reddish purple; young shoots tinged with purple. 
% 1. P. ve‘ra ZL. The true Pistachia Tree. 
Identification. Lin. Spec., 1454. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 64.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 65. 
Synonymes. Pistacia officinarum Hort. Kew. ; Bistachier, Fr.; Pistazienbaum, Ger.; Pistacchio, 
Ital. ; Alfocigo, Span. 
Engravings. Blackw. Icon., t. 461.; N. Du Ham., 4. t.17.; and our fig. 278. 
Spec. Char., $c. Leaves deciduous, impari-pinnate, of 3—5 leaflets, rarely of 
1; the leaflets ovate, a little tapered at the base, indistinctly mucronate at 
the tip. (Dec. Prod.) A deciduous tree. Syria. Height 20 ft. Introduced 
in 1770. Flowers small, brownish green; April and May. Fruit reddish, 
an inch long, ovate; ripe in Syria in September, rarely seen’in England. 
Varieties. The following are considered by 
some authors as species :— 
¥ P. v 2 trifolia Lin. Spec. 1454., Bocce. 
Mus. ii. t. 93., has leaves usually of 
3 leaflets. 
¥ P. v. 8 narbonénsis Bocc. Mus. t. ii. 693., 
P. reticulata Willd, has pinnate 
leaves, the leaflets having prominent 
veins. H. 8. 
Cultivated in the South of France, and in 
Italy, for its fruit; the nut of which is some- 
times eaten raw, but more frequently in a dried ¢ 
state, like almonds, In British gardens, the tree 
is not much planted, from its being generally 
supposed to require a wall; but, in favourable 
situations, it will grow as a standard or a bush 
in any common garden soil, and may be propa- 
gated either by nuts procured from abroad, or by cuttings. 
278. PistAcia vira. 
¥ 2. P. Teresi’ntuus Lin. The Turpentine Pistachia, or Venetian or Chian 
Turpentine Tree, 
Identification. Lin. Spec., 1455. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 64.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 65. ; 
Synonymes. T. vulgaris Tourn. Inst. 579.; P. vera Mill. Dict. No. 4.; Pistachier Teérébinthe, Fr. ; 
Terpentin Pistacie, Ger. ; Terebinto, Ital. 
Engravings. Woodv Med. Bot., 415. t. 153.; and our fig. 279. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves deciduous, impari-pinnate, of about 7 leaflets, that 
are ovate-lanceolate, rounded at the base, and at the tip acute and mucro- 
nate. (Dec. Prod.) A deciduous tree. South of 
Europe and North of Africa, Height 30 ft. In- 
troduced in 1656, Flowers dull yellow and crimson ; 
June and July. Fruit dark blue, hardly bigger than 
a large pea. 
Variety. é 
¥ P. T. 2 spherocérpa Dec. — Fruit larger and * 
rounder than that of the species. 
The general appearance of the tree is that of P. 
véra, but the leaves are larger, and the fruit only a third 
of the size ; the leaflets are, also, lanceolate, instead of 
being subovate. The red hue of the branches, espe- I 
cially when young, is very beautiful; and the leaves are —gr9,_p, rerebinthus. 
