. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XXIV. ANACAKDIA CEiE : PISTA CIA. 185 racemes, each scale with one flower. Calyx 3—5-cleft. Stamens 5, inserted into a calycine disk, or into the calyx; with 4-cornered, almost sessile, anthers. Ovaiy 1—3-celled. Sttgmas 3, and thickish. Fruit a dry ovate drupe; nut bony, and usually 1-c
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XXIV. ANACAKDIA CEiE : PISTA CIA. 185 racemes, each scale with one flower. Calyx 3—5-cleft. Stamens 5, inserted into a calycine disk, or into the calyx; with 4-cornered, almost sessile, anthers. Ovaiy 1—3-celled. Sttgmas 3, and thickish. Fruit a dry ovate drupe; nut bony, and usually 1-celled, with a single seed affixed to the bottom. Coty- ledons thick, fleshy, oily, and bent back upon the radicle.— Small trees, natives of the South of Europe and Asia. Leaves compound, impari-pinnate, deciduous or evergreen; dying off of a beautiful reddish purple; young shoots tinged with purple. 'i }. P. VE^RA L. The true Pistachia Tree. Identification. Lin. Spec. SymmyTnes. PisUicm officinSrum Hort. Kew. Ital.; Alfocigo, Span. Engravings. Blackw. Icon., t. 461.; N. Du Ham, 1454.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 64. S^Don^s Mill., 2. p. 65. 'istachier, Fr.; Pistazienbaura, Ger.; Pistacchio, ; and our^. 278. Leaves deciduous, impari-pinnate, of 3—5 leaflets, rarely of Spec. Char., ^c, 1; the leaflets ovate, a little tapered at the base, indistinctly mucronate at the tip. (Dec. Prod.) A deciduous tree. Syria. Height 20 ft. Introduced in 1770. Flowers small, brownish green; April and May. Fruit reddish, an inch long, ovate; ripe in Syria in September, rarely seen'in England. Varieties. The following are considered by some authors as species : — 3f P. «. 2 trifolia Lin. Spec. 1434., Bocc. Mus. ii. t. 93., has leaves usually of 3 leaflets. P. V. 3 narbonensis Bocc. Mus. t. ii. 693., P. reticulata Willd., has pinnate leaves, the leaflets having prominent veins. H. ^iiitjlcia T6ra. s Cultivated in the South of France, and in Italy, for its fruit; the nut of which is some-
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