XXIV. ANACARDIA‘CEE: RHU’S. 187 
subglobular, of 1 cell. Styles 3, short, or wanting. Stigmas 3. Fruit an 
almost dry drupe of 1 cell, with a bony nut, which includes a single seed ; 
and, in some instances, 2—3 seeds. (Dec. Prod.)—Deciduous shrubs. Na- 
tives of Europe, Asia, and North and South America. 
Leaves simple or unequally pinnate, alternate, stipulate, deciduous. 
Flowers in terminal racemes, or panicles. — The leaves vary much, both in 
form and magnitude ; and they generally die off, in autumn, of a dark red, 
or abright scarlet, or yellow, when they are very ornamental. Most of the 
species are poisonous, some highly so; and they all may be used in tanning, 
and dyeing yellow or black. ‘They are all easily propagated by cuttings of 
the root, and some of them by cuttings of the branches. 
Some of the hardy species are rambling climbers, and others tree-like 
bushes. 
§ i. Cétinus Tourn. 
Sect. Char. Leaves undivided. Flowers hermaphrodite. 
% 1. #. Co’t1nus L. The Cotinus Rhus, or Venetian Sumach. 
Identification. Lin. Spec., 383. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 67. ; Don’s Mill., al 69. 
Synonymes. C6tinus Cogg¥gria Scop. Carn. ed. 2. No. 368.. Manch Meth. 73.; Cétinus coriacea 
Duh. Arb. 1.t. 78.; Venus Sumach, Venice Sumach, wild Olive; Sumach Fustet, or Arbre aux 
Péruques, Fr.; Periicken Sumach, Ger.; Scotano, Ital. 
Derivation. The term Cétinus is derived from coténos, a name under which Pliny speaks of a tree 
with red wood, which is supposed to grow in the Apennines. 
Engravings. Jacq. Aust., t. 210.; and our fig. 281. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves obovate. (Dec. Prod.) <A de- 
ciduous rambling shrub. Spain to Caucasus ; and, accord- 
ing to Torrey and Gray, probably of North America. 
Height 4 ft. to 6 ft. wild; 6 ft. to 8 ft. in a state of cul- 
ture. Introduced in 1656. Flowers pale purplish, or 
flesh colour ; June and July. Fruit white; ripe in Sep- 
tember. Decaying leaves of a fine reddish yellow. Naked 
young wood smooth brown. 
The flowers are disposed in loose panicles, and are her- 
maphrodite. The drupe is half-heart-shaped, smooth, and 
veiny ; and its nut is triangular. Many of the flowers are 
abortive; and their pedicels, after flowering, lengthen, and 
become hairy. A highly ornamental shrub, more especially _ 
when covered with its large loose panicles of elongated hairy 
pedicels, It is easily known from all the other species by 
its simple, obovate, smooth, stiff, lucid green leaves, rounded 
at the points, and supported by long footstalks, which remain 
on till they are killed by frost, so that the plant is almost a 
sub-evergreen. A dry loam suits it best; and it is propa- 
gated by pegging down the branches flat to the ground, and : 
strewing earth over them, through which young shoots rise-up, which root at 
the base, and may be removed in autumn. 
§ ii, Stimach Dec. 
Sect. Char. Leaves impari-pinnate; leaflets more than 3 in the leaves of each 
of the first 6 species of this section. Flowers in panicles, polygamous, 
dicecious, or hermaphrodite. 
281. R. Cétinus. 
& £2, R.vyputwa L. The Fever Rhus, or Stag’s: Horn Sumach. 
Identification. Lin. Spec., 380.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 67.3 Don’s Mill., 2. p. 70.; Tor. and Gray, 
1. p. 217. 
Si . virginiana Bauh. Pin. p. 517.3; Virginian Sumach, 
Engravings. ape HL, 2. t. 47.5 Wate, Dend. Brit., t. 17. and t. 18.; and our jig. 282., the male. 
Spec. Char., $c. Leaf of 8—10 pairs of leaflets, and the odd one, that are 
lanceolate, acuminate, serrated, hairy beneath. Petiole and branches hairy. 
