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24. TEREBINTH ACE-35 . 
contains a single oblong flattened seed staining the fingers 
with a y. juice, furnished with a remarkably turgid prominent 
scar or umbilicus. 
No part of the pi. is spinous. The berries have a sweetish 
but nauseous slightly bitter taste without astringency. 
In the island of Flores, one of the Azores, the tree is called 
Sanguinho d'Ovelha, or Sheep’s Buckthorn, from the use of the 
1. at certain seasons of the year for fodder. 
The discovery by Professor Heer of an undoubted leaf (as I 
consider it) of JR. latifolia amongst the fossil plants of S. Jorge 
establishes the fact of this tree having been truly indigenous 
to Madeira ; and though it is now seen only here and there in 
or about pleasure-grounds or gardens, I have warrant for be- 
lieving it to have disappeared but very recently from the existing 
native Flora, if it be not indeed still actually lurking in some 
remote deep glen or on some inaccessible crag. In almost all 
the Azorian islands, according to Seubert, it is common, though 
in the form only of a u large shrub.” Its introduction thence 
to Madeira is, however, an exceedingly improbable hypothesis, 
from the absence of all direct intercourse between the islands, 
and of any useful or ornamental properties in the tree itself. 
The Quinta da Cova tr. were believed by Mr. Wardrop, the 
late proprietor and original planter of the grounds, to have 
been brought to him some fifty years ago, with the other native 
tr. above enumerated, from the Serra by a countryman. It has, 
however, hitherto escaped the observation of all Madeiran 
botanists in its native haunts. 
tOrder XXIV. TEBEBINTHACE^R. 
The Turpentine-tree Family. 
FI. regular often imperfect small mostly unisexual. Cal. 
small persistent 3-7- mostly 5-toothed. Pet. as many as sep. or 
0, imbricated in bud. Stam. 3-5 or 6-10, rarely more, alternate 
with the pet., inserted on or outside the fleshy annular disk or 
torus which is sometimes inconspicuous. Ov. mostly single 
1 -celled free ; ovule solitary. Styles 1-4 simple. Fr. mostly 
drupaceous indehiscent. Seed without albumen ; radicle curved; 
cot. thick and fleshy or leafy. — Tr. or shr. with resinous often 
acrid and poisonous juices, and alternate often compound leaves 
tdthout dots or stip. The Mango, Cashew-nut, Pistacia, Mastic, 
Japan and other Varnish-trees belong to this Family, of which 
no example is found in New Holland ! 
