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Terminalia Catappa, Linne. 



India, ascending mountain regions. Few trees, as stated by 

 Roxburgh, surpass this in elegance and beauty. We have 

 yet to learn whether it can be naturalised in temperate climes, 

 which it especially deserves for its nuts. Several species 

 extend in East Australia to sub-tropical latitudes, The seeds 

 are almond-like, of filbert taste and wholesome. The astrin- 

 gent fruits of several other species form an article of trade, 

 sought for a lasting black dye. T. parviflora (Thwaites) forms 

 a large tree in Ceylon, at elevations up to 4,000 feet. 



Terminalia Chebula, Retzius. 



On the drier mountains of India. The seeds of this tree are of 

 hazel taste ; the galls of the leaves and also the young fruits, 

 known as Myrobalams, serve for superior dye and tanning 

 material. Some other congeners serve the same purpose. 



Tetragonia expansa, Murray. 



The New Zealand Spinach, occurring also on many places of 

 the coast and in the desert interior of Australia. Known also 

 from New Caledonia, China, Japan, and Valdivia. An annual 

 herb, useful as a culinary vegetable, also for binding drift-sand. 



Tetragonia implexicoma, J. Hooker. 



Extra-tropical Australia, New Zealand, Chatham Island. A 

 frutescent, widely expanding plant, forming often large natural 

 festoons, or trailing and climbing over rocks and sand, never 

 away from the coast. As a Spinach plant it is as valuable as 

 the succeeding species. It is well adapted for the formation 

 of bowers in arid places ; it helps also to bind sand. T. trigyna 

 (Banks and Solayder) seems identical. 



Tetranthera Californica, Hooker and Arnott.* (Oreodaphne Ca- 

 lif arnica, Nees.) 



Oreo-on and California, where it is called the Mountain Laurel 

 or Bay Tree. On the banks of rivers attaining a height of 

 100 feet, throughout pervaded by a somewhat camphoric 

 odour. Wood hard, close-grained, durable, susceptible of a 

 high polish, easily worked, used for superior flooring, turnery, 

 and manifold other select work. The tree is easily cultivated, 

 but not of quick growth (Dr. Behr and Prof. Solander). 



Tetranthera calophylla, Miquel. (Cylicodaphne seUfera, Blume.) 

 Mountains of Java and the Neilgherries. From the kernels 

 of the berries a tallow-like fat is pressed for the manufacture 



