Order IV. 
DKECIA TETRANDRIA. 
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13877 Leaves ovate lanceolate oblique at base finely and simply serrated smooth 
13878 Leaves oblong stellate-hairy above brownish white and scaly beneath 
13879 Leaves linear-lanceolate smooth above white with scales beneath 
13880 Leaves 3-5-lobed acuminate serrated scabrous 
13881 Leaves cucullate entire 
13882 Flowers tetrapetalous axillary 
13883 Leaves opposite stalked pinnated with an odd one of 5 or 6 pairs 
13884 Leaflets serrated villous beneath. Racemes often compound 
13885 Leaves somewhat whorled linear smooth 
13886 Unarmed, Leaves oblong acum. entire smooth, Fruit 1-seeded cornute, Horns reflexed shorter than fruit 
13887 Unarmed, Leaves obovate oblong acuminate unequally serrate very scabrous on each side 
13888 Leaves alternate oblong oval, Fl. solitary 
PENTANDRIA. 
13889 Leaves pinnated with an odd one. Leaflets 5 ovate tapered at base rather acute and mucronate at end 
13890 Leaves pinnate and ternate, Leaflets roundish narrowed at base netted with veins retuse mucronate 
13891 Leaves pinnate with an odd one. Leaflets about 7 ovate-lanceolate rounded at base acute mucronate 
13892 Leaves pinnate with an odd one, Leaflets lanceolate about 9, Petiole winged between the terminal pairs 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
2061. Brucea. Named in honor of James Bruce, a celebrated Scotch traveller in Abyssinia, who discovered 
the plant. 
20S2. Anthospermum. From av^og, a flower, and g-^i^f^yi, seed ; its female flower is entirely naked, consist- 
ing of a single ovarium ; whence its name. A heath-looking evergreen, the leaves of which are fragrant 
when bruised, and the propagation and culture of the easiest description. 
2063. Trophis. From r^i(^oii, to nourish. T. americana produces berries about the size of large grapes, and 
of an agreeable pleasant flavor. The leaves and twigs are used as fodder for cattle when grass is scarce. 
Cuttings root in sand under a glass. 
2064. Montinia. In honor of Laurence Montin, a Swede, who published a little tract upon Splachnum. The 
specific name seems to hint at the nature of his disposition. A little worthless weed-like Cape plant. 
2065. Pistacia. Said by Forskahl to have been altered by the Latins from its Arabic name fousfaq. P. 
officinalis abounds in Sicily, where it is cultivated for its nuts. The male flowers come out from the side of 
the branches in loose bunches, and are of an herbaceous color. The female flowers come out in the same 
manner in clusters. The male puts forth its flowers first, and some gardeners pluck them whilst yet shut, 
dry them, and afterwards sprinkle the pollen over the female tree : but the method usually followed in Sicily, 
when the trees are far asunder, is to wait till the female buds are open, and then to gather bunches of male 
blossoms ready to blow ; these are stuck into a pot of moist mould, and hung upon the female tree till they are 
quite dry and empty. This operation is called tuchiarare, and never fails to produce fructification ; sometimes 
the gardeners ingraft the male bud upon the female tree. 
P. Terebinthus (from n^iu, to cut) furnishes the Cyprus turpentine. It is procured by wounding the bark 
of the trunk in several places, during the month of July, leaving a space of about three inches between the 
wounds; from the«e the turpentine is received on stones, upon which it becomes so much condensed by the 
coldness of the night, as to admit of being scraped off with a knife, which is always done before sunrise : in 
order to free it from all extraneous admixture, it is again liquified by the sun's heat, and passed througli a 
strainer ; it is then fit for use. The quantity produced is very inconsiderable ; four large trees, sixty years 
old, only yielding two pounds nine ounces and six drachms ; but in the eastern part of Cyprus and Chio, the 
trees afford somewhat more, though still so little as to render it very costly, and on this account it is com, 
inonly adulterated, especially with other turpentines. The best Chio turpentine is generally about the con- 
sistence of thick honey, very tenacious, clear, and almost transparent, white, inclining to yellow, and of a 
fragrant smell, moderately v, arm to the taste, but free from acrimony and bitterness. 
P. Lentiscus [lentiscere, to be sticky) produces the mastick, which is obtained most abundantly, by 
making transverse incisions in the bark of the tree, whence the mastick exudes in drops,, which are suffered 
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