18 THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Ternstremia—continued. 
died in 1745). Syn. Taonabo. Including Reinwardtia 
(of Korthals). ORD. Ternstremiacee. A genus com- 
prising about twenty-five species of stove, evergreen 
trees or shrubs, of which five or six are found in the 
warmer parts of Asia and the Indian Archipelago, and 
the rest in tropical America. Sepals five, closely im- 
bricated; petals five, imbricated, connate at base; 
stamens indefinite, adnate to the base of the corolla; 
peduncles one-flowered, recurved, axillary or lateral, 
solitary or sub-fasciculate, bibracteolate. Leaves co- 
riaceous, entire or crenate-serrate. A selection of the 
few introduced species is given below. All are shrubs. 
They thrive in well-drained, fibrous loam, and are readily 
propagated by cuttings of the half-ripened young shoots, 
inserted under a bell glass, in bottom heat. 
N 
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Fie. 15. FLOWERING BRANCH OF TERNSTRŒMIA ELLIPTICA. 
T. elliptica (elliptic-leaved). 
 duncles pet “3 gs 
fl. white; petals not lined; anthers 
racts ovate, acute, under the calyx. July. l 
oom ge” agua acuminate. Branches smooth. $ 2ft. 
T. venosa (veined). jl. white; pedicels te, axilla 
little shorter than the petioles. J sy r E g 
serrulated, veined. h. 6ft. “Brazil, me ee 
TERNSTREMIACEZR. A natural order of trees 
and shrubs, rarely climbing, mostly inhabiting tropical 
i and Eastern „Asia. Flowers regular, herm- 
aphrodite or rarely diclinous, showy or mediocre, rarely 
small ; petals five, rarely four, six, or seven, free or shortly 
" at base, the inner ones often larger; petals 
ce: rarely four or six to nine, hypogynous, free or often 
a slescing at base in a ring or short tube, imbricated or 
kepa stamens usually numerous; anthers basifixed 
= erect, or versatile, two-celled; disk none; ovary free; 
a as s ape is one or many-flowered, or the flowers 
_— bracteoles under the calyx often two. Fruit 
| times flesh y, coriaceous, or slightly woody and in- 
Ternstremiacezs—continued. 
dehiscent, or a loculicidal or septicidal, dehiscent capsule. 
Leaves alternate or very rarely opposite, simple and un- 
divided, or rarely digitately three to five-foliolate, entire 
or often serrated, coriaceous or rarely membranous, 
penninerved ; stipules wanting or very rarely minute and 
highly caducous. The most important economical product 
of this family is Tea, Camellia theifera (= Thea chinensis). 
Although two centuries have not passed since Tea was 
first used in Europe, the annual importation now exceeds 
twenty-two millions of pounds. The order comprises 
about thirty-three genera and 260 species. Examples: 
Camellia, Caryocar, Freziera, Ternstremia. 
TERPNANTHUS. A synonym of Spiranthera 
(which see). 
TERRACE. A raised 
space of ground, sometimes 
formed round a mansion, or 
on the side of sloping ground, 
usually for the purpose of 
making a level walk. In some 
cases, it is necessary to have 
some arrangement of this 
sort; but, in many other in- 
stances, after having been 
made at great cost, Terraces 
have been found most objec- 
tionable, because of the walls 
interfering with views of land- 
scape from the mansion, and 
also preventing the latter 
from being seen to advantage 
when approaching it. A 
Terrace retained in position 
by a strongly-built wall, on 
which flower-vases, &c., are 
fixed, is more likely*to con- 
stitute a double block of 
this sort than when a sloping 
grass bank is substituted ; 
if the latter can be arranged, 
it is, therefore, to be pre- 
ferred when the formation 
of a Terrace is really neces- 
sary. A Terrace-walk may 
sometimes be introduced with 
advantage on rising ground. 
where an exceptionally good 
view is at command, that cannot, perhaps, be seen from 
elsewhere; but the formation of Terraces as architectural 
features, apart from the necessity of having them, often 
assists, if it does not entirely succeed, in destroying 
beautiful landscape. The advantages and disadvantages 
should, therefore, receive full consideration. 
TESSARIA (named after Luis Tessari, Professor of 
Botany, &c., at Ancona, writer of works on “ Materia 
Medica”). Syns. Gynheteria, of Willdenow (Gyneteria of 
Sprengel), Phalacromesus, Polypappus. ORD. Composite. 
A small genus (five species) of hardy, Western American 
shrubs. Flower-heads small, cymose, sometimes disposed 
in an ample corymb ; involucral bracts many-seriate; ray 
florets purplish, pale on the outside. Leaves alternate, 
entire or toothed. Probably none of the species are now 
cultivated in this country. 
; TED. Chequered ; 
disposed in small squares. 
TESTA. The skin or integument of a seed. 
TESTACELLA (a diminutive of testa, a shell; in 
allusion to the small size of the shell). A” genus of 
Slugs which must be regarded as beneficial in gardens, 
inasmuch as they feed exclusively on earthworms, fol- 
lowing them into their burrows. The body is long and 
when colours are 
