96 About Trees, Shrubs and Climbing Plants for S.A. 



Tamarindus indicus (Tamarind) A fine specimen tree, but only 

 suitable for warm districts. Flowers yellow, striped red. 

 Foliage pinnate. Evergreen. " The acid pulp of the pods 

 forms the medicinal tamarind" (v. Muller). A grand shade 

 tree. 



*Tamarix gallica (Tamarisk) A very hardy shrub, or small tree, 

 with slender and feathery branches. The pink flowered form 

 does well in Natal at an elevation of 3,000 feet and above, 

 but the warmer Coastal district is not favourable. It is 

 quite hardy. Admirably suited for shrubberies. 10 feet. 

 T. hispida has rather paler foliage and better flower heads. 

 T. tetandra purpurea has red flowers. This genus will 

 stand very harsh and dry conditions, and will also do well in 

 brak soil and on the sea coast. 



*Taxodium distichum (Swamp Cypress) A very handsome and 

 tall deciduous Cypress-like tree, suited for low-lying and moist 

 situations, or stream banks. The young leaves as they ap- 

 pear in the 'Spring, remind one of the Spring appearance of 

 the European Inarch, the colour effects being very beautiful. 

 A good timber. Quite hardy. SO feet. 



Tecoma stans (Yellow Elder) A very handsome bush Tecoma 

 with numerous large panicles of yellow flowers, large and 

 showy. Stem strong and upright. A good shrubbery plant. 

 Summer and Autumn flowering. Very free. 20 feet. 



Tecoma smithii Is a small, slender shrub, with yellow panicles 

 of flowers very freely produced on the tips of the branches. 

 Hardy. 10 feet. 



Tecoma capensis Splendid orange-scarlet flowers, 2 inches long, 

 in racemes. One of the best of our indigenous shrubs. 

 Branches slender and drooping to the ground. This will 

 make either a drooping shrub or a climber. 



*Thevctia nereifolia A large Oleander-leaved plant, with 

 numerous yellow bell-like flowers. Hardy. 12 feet. 



*Thiiya.<t The Thuyas or Arbor Vitfles are evergreen Coniferse, 

 with flat, fern-like foliage, not unlike Cupressus lawsoniana. 

 Most of the varieties so far tried have done well, and al- 

 though they are rather slow in growth, they are well worth 

 growing. Thuya orientalis and its sub-variety " compacta,'' 

 are often used as hedge plants, but this makes a neat, small 

 tree alone. Thuya occidentalis, the North American type, is 

 rather larger, but still only a small tree. T. gigantea (T. 

 lobbii) makes a gigantic specimen in its native land, but we 

 only know it in South Africa as a young and immature tree. 

 It is intensely beautiful, far surpassing any of the Cypresses, 

 particularly when the fresh young, bright-green tips are set 

 off against the very dark-green of the older foliage. Growth 

 of this variety is fairly quiok. 60 feet. 



Trichillia emetica (Umkuhla) For the Coast and warm Mid- 

 lands we consider this by far the finest of our shade trees, 

 the foliage being very dense. Height eventually 60 to 70 



