AN ENCYCLOPADIA 
OF HORTICULTURE. 
Tacca—continued. 
Arrowroot-plant. fl. in a dense umbel, subtended by several 
leafy bracts; perianth purplish, funnel-shaped, with six sub- 
equal segments. June. fr. somewhat pear-shaped, with promi- 
nent ribs. Z. long-petiolate, large, three-parted, the forked divi- 
sions pinnatifid down to a narrow wing, with irregular, ovate, 
acute segments. Stem none. Rhizome tuberous. East Indies 
and Society Islands, 1793. See Fig. 1. (L. B.C. 692; R. G. 582.) 
TACCACEZ. A small natural order of perennial 
herbs, with tuberous or creeping rhizomes, inhabiting 
tropical regions and China. Flowers regular, hermaphro- 
dite, densely umbellate at the apex of an erect, leafless 
scape; perianth often brown, lurid, or green above, above 
the ovary broadly urceolate or globose-campanulate, the 
tube short and broad; lobes six, biseriate, sub-equal or 
the inner ones broader, all connivent in a globe or the 
outer ones (or all) spreading; stamens six ; filaments very 
short; anthers two-celled; ovary inferior; style short, 
columnar; outer bracts herbaceous or coloured; inner ones 
long, filiform. Fruit globose, ovoid, turbinate, or elongated, 
often triquetrous or six-ribbed, baccate, indehiscent or 
rarely at length three-valved. Leaves radical, large, 
petiolate, sometimes undivided and entire, occasionally 
variously lobed and dissected. The order consists of two 
genera—Schizocapsa and Tacca—and includes only about 
ten species. 
TACCARUM (name adapted from Tacca, from the 
resemblance to that genus). Syns. Endera, Lysistigma. 
ORD. Aroideœ (Araceæ). A small genus (three or four 
species) of tall, stove, tuberous, Brazilian herbs. Flowers 
moncecious; spathe erect, the tube short and convolute, 
the blade gaping or explanate, oblong, acute; spadix in- 
appendiculate, shorter than the spathe, shortly stipitate, 
loose-flowered, the male inflorescence ovoid or elongated 
longer than the petioles. Leaves long-petiolate, broadly 
hastate-ovate, bipinnatifid; pinne undulated. Two of the 
species have been introduced. They are closely allied to 
Staurostigma (which see for culture). 
T. pere 
nate, slightly exceeding the spadix; spadix sub-cylindrical, 
attenuated from the base to the apex, clothed throughout with 
flowers, the male and female inflorescences of equal length. Z 
solitary, vectone ga l with the flowers, large, tripartite, pinnati- 
tidly compound ; petioles long, terete, spotted, 3ft. high. Tuber 
sub-hemispherical. 1873. SyNns. Endera conophallordea (R. G. 
Bip Lysistigma peregrinum. 
Warmingianum (Dr. Warming’s). fl., spathe light coppery- 
tinted brown, lift. long, Con below, open above; ATA 
shorter than the spathe; ovaries green, surrounded by four to 
six fleshy, dirty-brown staminodia; stamens of male flowers 
united into a thick, fleshy, round-topped, pinkish column ; scape 
8in. long. October to January. /. solitary, bright green, with a 
spread of 2ft. to 2ift., having three principal bipinnatifid 
visions ; petiole 3ft. high, stout, light green, marked with 
numerous white lines. 1882. (G. C. n. 8. xvi, p. 661; 
R. G. 1124.) 
A synonym of Tachigalia 
TACHIA (of Persoon). 
(which see). 
TACHIADENUS (from Tachia, a genus of the same 
order, and aden, a gland; the ovary is surrounded by 
a ring of glands, as in Tachia). ORD. Gentianee. A 
genus including five species of stove herbs or sub-shrubs, 
endemic in Madagascar. Flowers pink or white, some- 
times violet with a white tube, large, few in a terminal 
cyme, or solitary; calyx tubular, multi-glandular within, 
five-cleft at apex, five-keeled or five-winged; corolla 
Salver-shaped or funnel-like, with a long tube and five 
Spreading, twisted lobes; stamens five. Leaves sessile 
or stalked, often three-nerved. Only one species has 
been introduced. It thrives in a mixture of sand, loam, 
and peat, and requires to be kept rather dry in winter. 
Propagated by cuttings, inserted in sand, under a hand 
glass, in heat. : 
T. carinatus y in. verse Wi 
halfanceolate the Tobe "maser; Mai take Shite, om jong, 
Swollen at apex, the lobes violet, rounded, obtuse, less than lin. 
g; cyme terminal, twice dichotomous. October. l. oval, 
BM 5st ree nerved. Stem suffruticose, tetragonal. 1858. 
um (foreign). fl., spathe olive-green, ovate, acumi- 
TACHIGALIA (Tachigali is the native name in 
Guiana). Syns. Cubea, Tachia (of Persoon). ORD. Le- 
guminose, A small genus (four or five species) of tropical 
American, unarmed, stove trees. Flowers yellow (:), 
very shortly pedicellate, racemose; calyx segments five, 
unequal; petals five, scarcely unequal; stamens ten. 
Leaves abruptly pinnate. T. bijuga and T. paniculata 
have been introduced, but are now probably lost to cul- 
tivation. 
TACSONIA (from Tacso, the Peruvian name of one 
of the species). Passion Flower. Including Poggen- 
dorfia. ORD. Passifloree. A genus comprising about 
thirty species of stove or greenhouse, often pubescent, 
climbing shrubs, natives of tropical America, mainly 
differing from Passiflora in the usually long, cylindrical 
tube of the calyx, which is furnished with two crowns, 
one at the throat, and the other near its base. Petals 
five, often smaller than the calyx lobes; corona entire 
or filamentose ; stamens five. Leaves alternate. Tendrils 
lateral, undivided. The species known to cultivation 
are here described. For culture, see Passiflora. 
T, Buchanani (Buchanan’s), A synonym of Passiflora se cr 
T., insi remarkable). * . solitary, axillary, 6in. to in 
diameter ; ane 2in. long, dan a depressed bulb at the base ; 
pra Me net aiga koaa anig pai with a n 
eel termina ow in a green spur lin. ; petals 
crimson and shorter than the sepals, nearly flat ; corona jin, long, 
of one series of white threads mottled with blue; inner corona an 
inflexed membrane at the base of the tube above the bulb. 
Summer and autumn. J. bin. to Tin. long, ovate or oblong, or 
sere ti manag oe a benicar ager i ee ed; 
tioles short, stout, glan 8 es sma a 
poor arts, tioles, peduncles, and leaves beneath, clothed 
with pale or dark rusty-brown wool. Peru (?). Warm green- 
house. (B. H. 1874, 10; F. M. n. s. 89; G. C., 1873, 1112.) Syn. 
Passiflora insignis (B. M. 6069; F. d. S. 2083-4. 
f lands. Stem, leaves beneath, stipules, bracts, and perianth 
Aane y, finely pubescent. Peru, before 1850. Stove or warm 
greenhouse. (L. E PAFO: 26.) Syn. Passiflora manicata 
aE pee lindrical, 4in. to in, {1 
T. mixta (mixed). f. pink; tube cyli ; o 5in, long, 
glabrous = pubescent ; sepals and obtuse ; bracts 
l¿in. to 2in. long, herbaceous 
or ernest coalescing in an eg 
involucre. Late summer. „fr. ovoid, rous or “pubesoont, ae 
edible. l. coriaceous, orbicular, three-lobed to the mi dle ; lobes 
ate-oblong, acute, serrated; petioles lin. to 1żin. long, wi 
te to kpd sessile or stipitate glands. Stem a k 
Plant glabrous or more or less ar Sapna acon 
s Je (woolly-flowered). jl. pink; 
nerved. Plant snowy-pubescent, É . 5750, under name of 
T. eriantha.) 
T. m. i peger (Quito). 
ually or rare! 
bec above, velvety beneath, three-lobed ; 
ovate-oblong; petiolar 
xvi. 595, under name of rasa fr 
T, m. speciosa (showy). fl., involucre pu 
or three-lobed at apex. y glabrous above, — beneath, 
three-lobed ; lobes oblong-lanceolate, uncinate-serrated ; 
glands stipitate. Stem gga or. 
A llissima (very soft).* fl. pink; tube c 
wet highly pn bracts lin. long, jorming an urceolate 
eye y cut at th 
ellipsoid, 4in. lo: I ; 
ilobed; lobes diverging, lanceolate, serrated ; 
a Lies long, glandular ; A Y six to eight m 
deeply serrated. Quito, 1845. hole plant softly pu 
jections, and an inner membranous fold bent downwards ; 
i than the leaves. l. glabrous 
eects. Saik: petioles channelled above ; stipules entire, 
subulate-acuminate. Tolima, 1882. Stove or 
n. s., xvii., p. 225 
rical, 
1 i i 5 rose-colour, ĝin: 
T, pinnatistipale (iia, dilated sae cation filaments — 
to 6in. long ; tube cy: 
