Chap. 13.] 
THE SUMACH-TEEE. 
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no fruit, while, on the other hand, the one that bears fruit has 
no blossom, and the fruit, as it falls, is being continually replaced 
by fresh. The seed of this tree is similar to that of the cy- 
press. Some persons give this tree the name of " cedrelates." 
The resin produced from it is very highly praised, and the 
wood of it lasts for ever, for which reason it is that they have 
long been in the habit of using it for making the statues of the 
gods. In a temple at Rome there is a statue of Apollo Sosi- 
anus^^ in cedar, originally brought from Seleucia. There is a 
tree similar to the cedar, found also in Arcadia ; and there is 
a shrub that grows in Phrygia, known as the cedrus." 
CHAP. 12. (6.) THE TEEEBINTH.^^ 
Syria, too, produces the terebinth, the male tree of which 
bears no fruit, and the female consists of two different va- 
rieties ; one of these bears a red fruit, the size of a lentil, 
while the other is pale, and ripens at the same period as 
the grape. This fruit is not larger than a bean, is of a very 
agreeable smell, and sticky and resinous to the touch. About 
Ida in Troas, and in Macedonia, this tree is short and shrubby, 
but at Damascus, in Syria, it is found of very considerable size. 
Its wood is remarkably flexible, and continues sound to a very 
advanced age : it is black and shining. The blossoms appear 
in clusters, like those of the olive-tree, but are of a red colour ; 
the leaves are dense, and closely packed. It produces folli- 
cules, too, from which issue certain insects like gnats, as also a 
kind of resinous liquid which oozes from the bark. 
CHAP. 13. THE SUMACH-TREE. 
The male sumach- tree ^ of Syria is productive, but the 
female is barren. The leaf resembles that of the elm, though 
it is a little longer, and has a downy surface. The'' footstalks 
of the leaves lie always alternately in opposite directions, and 
See B. xxxvi. c. 4. 
Pistacia terebinthus of Linnseus. 
These varieties, Fee says, are not observed by modem naturalists. 
Garidel has remarked, that the trunk of this tree produces coriaceous 
vesicles, filled with a clear and odoriferous terebinthine, in which pucerons, 
or aphides, are to be seen floating. 
^'^ ''Rhus." The Ehus coriaria of Linnaeus. Pliny is wrong in distin- 
guishing this tree into sexe&, as all the flowers are hermaphroditical, and 
therefore fruitful. 
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