TEMPLETOXIA 



TERMIXALIA 



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TEMPLETONIA (J. Templeton, botanist of Belfast, 

 early part of 19th century). Leguminbsy. CORAL 

 BUSH. Shrubs or rarely subshrubs, cult, in the green- 

 house abroad and hardy outdoors in the extreme S., 

 where they may be used as ornamentals. Lvs. alter- 

 nate, simple, entire or reduced to minute scales; stipules 

 small or none : fls. red. yellow, or purple, axillary, solitary 



3786. Tephrosia macraatha. (XH) 



or 2 or 3 together: calyx 5-lobed, lobes unequal; stand- 

 ard orbicular or obovate, usually reflexed; wings nar- 

 row: keel as long as the standard or shorter; stamens 

 all united in a sheath open on the upper side; ovary 

 sessile or stipitate: pod sessile or stipitate, much flat- 

 tened, ovate-oblong or linear, completely dehiscent. 

 About 8 species. Austral. Said to do best in a mixture 

 of sandy loam and peat. Prop, by cuttings. 



retusa, R. Br. (T. glauca, Sims). CORAL BUSH. Tall 

 glabrous or glaucous shrub: Ivs. broadly obovate to 

 narrow-cuneate-oblong, sometimes all under %in., 

 sometimes all over 1 in. long, emargmate or mucronate, 

 coriaceous: fls. red (or rarely white); calyx with 4 very 

 short, broad teeth, the lowest longest: pod l^-2 in. 

 long. B.M. 20SS: 2334. B.R. 383; 859. L.B.C. 

 6:526; 7:644. Cult, in S. Calif, where it blooms in the 

 winter. f\ TRACY HUBBARD.! 



TEOSDTTE: Euchlxna. 



TEPHROSIA (Greek, iephros, ash-colored, hoary; 

 referring to the foliage). Leguminbsse. Hardy or half- 

 hardy perennial herbs, subshrubs, or rarely shrubs, of 

 little horticultural value. 



Leaves uneven-pinnate: Ifts. numerous, rarely 1-3, 

 linear; stipules bristle-like or broader and striate: 

 racemes terminal, opposite the Ivs. or in the upper 

 axils: fls. in fascicles of 2-6, red, purple, or white; 

 calyx-lobes subequal or the 2 upper longer; petals 

 clawed, standard suborbiculate, outside more or less 

 silky- villous; wings obliquely obovate or oblong; keel 

 incurved, obtuse or rather acute; ovary sessile, many- 

 ovuled: pod linear, rarely ovate, compressed 2-valved. 



About 170 species, natives of the warmer regions 

 of the world. 



grandiflora, Pers. (Galega grandiflora, Vahl). 

 Rigid shrub 1-2 ft. high, pubescent or nearly glabrous: 

 Ivs. short-petioled; Ifts. 5-7 pairs, cuneate-oblong or 

 linear-oblong, variably pubescent on both surfaces: fls. 

 fasciculate-corymbose, red, fulvescent on the outside, 

 8-10 lines long: pod broad, linear, piano-compressed. 

 S. Afr. B.R, 769. 



virginiana, Pers. (Crdcca virginiana, Linn.). GOAT'S 

 RUE. CATGUT. WILD SWEET PEA. HOARY PEA. 

 Silky-villous: st. erect, simple, 1-2 ft. high, leafy to the 

 top: Ifts. 17-29, linear-oblong: fls. large and numer- 

 ous, clustered in a terminal, ellipsoid, dense raceme or 

 panicle, yellowish white marked with purple. June, 

 July. Dry sandy soil, southern X. H. to Minn, and 

 southward. 



macrantha, Rob. & Greenm. Fig. 3786. Shrub, 

 6-10 ft. tall: Ivs. odd-pinnate; Ifts. about 10-12 pairs, 

 oblong-linear, entire, short-acute or cuspidate: fls. in 

 loose terminal panicles 1 ft. long, shaded purple and 

 white, nearly as large as sweet peas; standard very 

 large, erect, oblong-orbicular. Mex. G.F. 7:175 (re- 

 duced in Fig. 3786). A very showy plant, deserv- 

 ing of planting where hardy. Pringie writes that ''for 

 weeks it lights up the thickets of hillside ravines with 

 masses of pleasing color." F. TRACY HUBBARD.! 



TERMINALIA (alluding to the leaves being borne 

 upon the terminus of the shoot). Combretacex. Only 

 one species, T. Catappa, the Indian almond or tropical 

 almond, is well known in American horticulture, but 

 several others are important in the Orient, principally 

 for their fruits, known as myrobalans, which are used 

 in dveing, tanning, and in medicine. 



Leaves alternate, or rarely opposite, often crowded 

 toward the ends of the branchlets, usually petiolate 

 and entire: fls. sessile or nearly so, small, hermaphrodite 

 or polygamo-dicecious, usually in elongated spikes but 

 sometimes in heads; calyx-tube ovoid or cylindrical, 

 constricted above the ovary, the limb urn-shaped or 

 campanulate, 5-toothed, usually deciduous; petals 

 none; stamens 10, in 2 series, the 5 inferior opposite the 

 calyx-teeth, the 5 superior longer, alternating with the 

 teeth; filaments exserted, subulate or filiform; anthers 

 small, the lobes scarcely connected; ovary unilocular, 

 style subulate, often villous at base, stigma simple; 

 ovules 2, rarely 3: fr. a drupe, ovoid, angular, com- 

 pressed or 2-5-winged, 1-seeded, the cotyledons con- 

 volute. A genus of about 100 species distributed 

 throughout the tropics, principally in S. Asia, with 

 only a few in Amer. 



Catappa, Linn. TROPICAL ALMOND. INDIAN ALMOND. 

 MYROB VLAN. ALMEXDRO. AMEXDOEIRA. Fig. 3787. A 

 tall, stately tree, up to 80 ft. high, with horizontal 

 branches arising from the primary axis in whorls 3-6 

 ft. apart : bark smooth, brownish gray: Ivs. clustered at 

 the ends of the young branchlets, alternate, entire, 

 obovate, obtuse to subacuminate at the apex, atten- 

 uate toward the slightly auricled 

 base, 6-12 in. long, 3-6 in. broad, 

 coriaceous, glabrous above, very 

 finely pubescent below, venation 

 slightly raised on both surfaces but 

 most prominent, below; petiole 

 stout, under 1 in. long, flattened 

 above, rusty-pubescent: fls. whitish, 

 upper ones staminate and lower 

 ones perfect, in finely pubescent 

 spikes up to 6 in. long; calyx-segms. 

 acute, slightly concave, valvate in 

 bud, finely pubescent; filaments 

 subulate, inserted upon the hairy 3787 u ut O f 

 disk; anthers cordate: fr. broadly cai almond. Tenm- 

 oval in outline, elliptical and 2- nalia Catappa. (XH) 



