2S2 THE NUT CULTUR1ST. 



their common South American name. These nuts are 

 more frequently seen in European seaports than in those 

 of this country. 



SOUTH SEA CHESTNUT. See Tahitian chestnut. 



TAHITI AN CHESTNUT. The seeds of a tree known 

 in the South Sea islands by the native name of Toi, but 

 to botanists as Inocarpus edulis. It belongs to the bean 

 family (Leguminosce). The tree grows sixty to eighty 

 feet high, and when young the stems are fluted like a 

 Grecian column, but as they increase with age the pro- 

 jections extend outward, until they form a kind of but- 

 tress all around the lower part, gradually decreasing 

 upward. This so-called chestnut tree has yellow flowers, 

 succeeded by fibrous pods containing one large seed or 

 nut, which, when roasted or boiled, resembles the chest- 

 nut in taste. The nuts have a different local name in 

 almost every one of the Pacific islands where it is at all 

 abundant. 



TAVOLA NUT. See Myrobalan nut. 



TALLOW NUT. A local and nearly obsolete name 

 for the fruit of the Ogeechee lime or sour gum tree 

 (Nyssa capitata) of the swamps of Florida, Georgia and 

 westward. The fruit is about an inch long, resembling 

 a small plum, the pulp having an agreeable acid taste. 

 Bartram, p. 94, refers to this fruit under the name of 

 " Tallow nut," but why so called is not explained. 



TALLOW NUT. The fruit of the Chinese Tallow 

 tree, Stillingia sebifera, of the spurgewort family 

 (EuphorUacew), a native of China, where it is, as well 

 as in some of the warmer parts of America, extensively 

 cultivated. It has been planted in a few localities in 

 the Southern States, and appears to thrive. It is a 

 small tree thirty to forty feet high, with rhomboid 

 tapering leaves and a three-celled capsuled fruit, each 

 cell containing only a single seed thickly coated with a 

 yellow, tallow-like substance, hence its common name. 



