Revelation 18:12, Callitris quadrivalvis of Mount Atlas in North Africa, allied to the "arbor vitro ", Τhuja occidentalis or articulata . The Romans prized it highly, and called it citrum; when Roman husbands upbraided ladies with extravagance in pearls, they retorted the men's fondness for thyine tables (Pliny, H. N. 13:15).