AN ENCYCLOPADIA 
OF HORTICULTURE. 17 
TEPHRITIS ONOPORDINIS. See Celery Fly. 
TEPHRO. A term which, used in Greek compounds, 
signifies ash-grey. : 
TEPHROSIA (from tephros, ash-coloured; alluding 
to the colour of the leaves). North American Hoary Pea. 
Including Requienia. ORD. Leguminose. A large genus 
(about ninety species) of stove, greenhonse, or half-hardy 
herbs, sub-shrubs, or rarely shrubs, broadly dispersed 
over the warmer regions of the globe. Flowers red, 
purple, or white, in leaf-opposed racemes, or solitary or 
in pairs in the axils; calyx tube campanulate, the teeth 
distinct, sub-equal ; petals clawed ; standard sub-orbicular ; 
keel incurvyed, not beaked ; stamens diadelphous. Pods 
flattened, two-valved. Leaves usually odd-pinnate; leaf- 
lets opposite, often silky beneath. Several of the 
- species are economically valuable, but few of them are 
very ornamental. A selection from those introduced is 
here given, All thrive in a compost of sandy peat and 
leaf mould. Propagation may be readily effected by 
seeds; or by cuttings, inserted in sand, under a bell 
glass, those of the stove species in heat. 
T. candida (whitish). fl. reddish or white, jin. to lin. long; 
standard densely silky ; racemes copious, terminal and lateral, 
elongated, 6in. to 9in. long. July. J. shortly porioime. 6in. to 
Sin. long ; leaflets nineteen to twenty-five, ligulate, acute, 14in. 
to 2in. long. India, 1816. A low, stove shrub. 
T. capensis (Cape).* jl. purple, tin. long, the standard pubes- 
cent; racemes interrupted, attenuated, distantly many-flowered ; 
peduncles elongated, slender, July. Z. rather lorfg-petiolate; 
leaflets three to six pairs, élliptic, cuneate-oblong, or lanceolate, 
obtuse or acute. Stems procumbent or trailing, 2ft. to 3ft. long. 
South Africa, 1825. Greenhouse sub-shrub. 
T. grandiflora (large-flowered). f/i. red, fulvescent on the out- 
side, eight to ten lines long; peduncles terminal and leaf- 
opposed, fasciculate-corymbose at summit. June. Z. shortly 
petiolate; leaflets five or seven pairs, cuneate or linear-oblong, 
obtuse or acute, retuse or mucronulate. h. lft. to 2ft. Sout 
Africa, 1774. An erect, greenhouse shrub. (B. R. 769, under 
name of Galega grandiflora.) 
T. pallens (pale). /l. pink, four to five lines long, the standard 
pubescent, the other petals glabrous; racemes dense, many- 
flowered ; peduncles curved, 4in. to 6in. long. July. l shortly 
petiolate, very spreading or recurved ; leaflets five to nine pairs, 
narrow, cuneate-oblong, Zin. long, recurved-pointed. South 
Africa, 1787. An erect or ascending, greenhouse sub-shrub. 
T, purpurea (purple). jl. pale red, }in. to ğin. long, silky ; 
racemes copious, elongated, all leaf-opposed, šin. to 6in. long, 
loose, the lower flowers fascicled. July. J. shortly petiolate, 
sin. to 6in. long; leaflets thirteen to twenty-one, narrow- 
oblanceolate, obtuse, glabrescent above, obtusely silky beneath. 
h. lft. to 2ft. Throughout the tropics, 1768. Stove perennial. 
T. suberosa (slightly bitten). f. pink; vexillum with a very 
Short, callous claw, broadly oval; peduncles terminal and axil- 
Y, racemose, shorter than the leaves. July. J. shortly petio- 
te, in. to 6in. long; leaflets lin. to I4in. long, oblong- 
“lanceolate or lanceolate, ver i f 
A ' y pale, silky-canescent. fh. 4ft. 
South Africa, 1818. Greenhouse shrub. 
T. vir (Virginian). ji. yellowish-white, marked with 
giniana 
urple, large and numerous, clustered in a terminal, oblong, 
ense raceme or panicle.. June and July. l, leaflets seventeen 
a twenty-nine, linear-oblong. Stem erect and simple, lft. to 2ft. 
gh, leafy to the top. North America, 1765. Half-hardy 
perennial. 
hT ERAMNUS (from teramnos, soft; in reference to 
ré pods and leaves). Syn. Glycine (of Wight and 
m- ORD. Leguminose. A small, tropical genus of 
slender, twining, stove herbs. Flowers small, fascicled 
a racemose ; standard ovate, narrowed at base, exappen- 
culate. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate, stipellate. Two 
Species have been introduced, but they are not very 
ornamental, and are probably no longer in cultivation. 
TERATOPHYLLUM. Included under Acrostichum. 
TEREBINTH-TREE. A common -name for Pis- 
tacia Terebinthus (which sce). 
wor EREBINTHUS. A synonym of Pistacia (which 
TEREDO. Any disease in plant life caused by the 
boring of insects, ; 
TERETE. Free from angles; cylindrical or nearly 
80; tapering, 3 : a 
Vol, Iy, 
TERGEMINATE. “When each of two secondary 
petioles bears towards its summit one pair of leaflets, 
and the common petiole bears a third pair at the origin 
of the-two secondary petioles; as in Mimosa tergemina ” 
(Lindley). : 
TERMINAL. Proceeding from the end. 
TERMINALIA (from terminus, end ; alluding to the 
disposition of the leaves), Myrobalan-tree. Including 
Badamea, Buceras, Bucida, Catappa, Fatrea, Myrobalanus, 
and Pentaptera, ORD. Combretacew. A large genus (eighty 
to ninety species) of stove, evergreen, erect shrubs or trees, 
broadly spread over the tropics. Flowers green or white, 
rarely coloured, small, sessile, in spikes or heads; calyx 
five-toothed or five-cleft; petals wanting ; stamens ten, bi- 
seriate. Leaves alternate, rarely nearly or quite opposite, 
often clustered at the tips of the branches, often stalked 
and entire. A few of the introduced species are here 
described. The bark of T. Buceras is greatly esteemed 
by tanners. Loam and peat form the most suitable com- 
post for these plants. Propagation may be effected by 
cuttings, inserted in sand, and plunged in heat, under a 
glass. With the exception of T. sericea, all the species 
here described are trees 
T. angustifolia (narrow-leaved), A synonym of P. Benzoin. 
T. una (Arjuna). f., spikes usually panicled. /. sub-opposite, 
Aree or elliptic, caai ME to 6in., sometimes 10in., ne 
denly narrowed at base, often cordate, obtuse or ve rtly 
acute at apex, nearly glabrous beneath when old ; petioles rarely 
more than }in. long, with two glands near the apex. A. 60ft. to 
80ft. India. (B. F. S. 28.) SYN. Pentaptera Arjuna. 
T, Benzoin (Benzoin). f., racemes axillary, 
as the oe l paca at the thickened tips of the branches ; 
oblong-lanceolate, crenate, obtuse or cuspidate, gloron o 
coriaceous, 3in. to 4in. long, narrowed into glandular petioles. 
h. 30ft. to 40ft. Mauritius, 1824. A milky juice is said to flow 
from this tree, which, when dried, is used as incense in Mauritius. 
Syns. T. angustifolia, T. mauritiana. 
, Buceras (Buceras). fl. rather distant; spikes cylindrical, 
woe or e A pae maa i. variable, obovate or spathulate- 
lanceolate, glabrous above, silky and glabrate beneath. h. 20ft. 
unculate, as long 
to 30ft. West Indies, 1793. A monstrosity of the flowers, trans- 
formed into. long, cylindrical, arcuate bodies, is peculiar to this 
peci Syn. Bucida Buceras (B. R. 907). 
T. Cata; Catappa). Olive Bark-tree ; Malabar Almond-tree. 
fl. in e hoarnet e g slender, spike-like, axillary racemes. L — 
crowded near the ends of the branchlets, shortly petiolate, 
obovate, obtuse, entire, membranous, 6in. to 12in. long, gisbross 
or pilose beneath, with two glands near the base of 
h. 60ft. to 80ft. Tropical Asia, &c., 1778. (B. M. srs A 
, Chebula (Chebula). Negroes’ Olive-tree. Jl., spikos 
Tan pees to L not clustered, often sub-opposite, ovate or 
elliptic, amah ged and ogg e e a Tin long: often 
less hairy when young ; petio. $ x 
per glands hdl the summit. h. 80ft. to 100ft. India, 1796. 
(B. F. F. 29; B. F. S: 27.) i 
, latifolia (broad-leaved). jl., spikes simple, peduncula cylin- 
ee l son maot at the tips of the ences obovate- 
oblong, 6in. to 12in. long, glabrate or pubescent beneat oo 
i tioles lin. long, often with small or 
ag en penton h. 80ft. to over 100ft. West Indies, &e., 
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T, mauritiana (Mauritian). A synonym of T. Benzoin. 
T, sericea (silky). /l., spikes silky, pedunculate, oe than 
the leaves. J. alternate, crowded at the tips of the bran aa 
oblong or ee ee 2hin. to Sin. Jone, pegs ane — 
ire, clothed with silky, ap a p 
Sicoval fete short petioles. h. 6ft- and upwards, South 
Africa, 1816. Shrub. 
TERMINALIS. A synonym of Dracewna. 
; three things in 
TERNATE. A whorl of three ; hin; 
opposition round a common axis; 8.9., a leaf consisting of 
three leaflets. 
TERNATEA. Included under Clitoria. * 
TERNATELY-DECOMPOUND. Compound in a 
ternate manner. 
TERNATELY-VERTICILLATE. Having three — 
leaves in a whorl, 
a Swedish naturalist and traveller in China, who — 
stræm, D 
(named after Ohristopher Tern- 
