“‘ Terebintaceee (the order to which the subject of the 
article belongs) is so denominated by Jussieu from the 
genus for which he chooses to retain the old name of TERE- 
BINTHUS, but which is Pisracuia of Linnzeus (and includes 
the Pistachia Tree, the Turpentine Tree, and the Mastick 
Tree). Many of the plants of this order abound in an es- 
sential oil of the nature of turpentine, or something like it.” 
“ SpaTHELIA, altered from Dr. Patrick Browne's name 
for the same plant, Sparne, and alluding to the simple 
undivided stem, crowned with a tuft of luxuriant leaves, 
like the Palm-tribe.” Smith in Rees’s cyclop. in loco. 
The genus consists at present of only one species. 
