400 DICTIONARY OF POPULAR NAMES SWEET 



is cultivated in the South of France and Spain ; it makes an 

 excellent preserve, which is highly prized by the Spaniards. 

 From the latter country tubers are exported to this country. 



Sweet Sop {Anona squctinosa), a tree of the Custard Apple 

 family (Anonacea^), native of the West Indies and tropical 

 America, and cultivated in many parts for its fruit, which is 

 netted, scaly, and hard, but softens after being gathered; it 

 possesses a fine luscious flavour, but is rather disagreeable to eat 

 on account of its numerous seeds. 



Sycamine Tree, a scriptural name for the Mulberry 

 tree. 



Sycomore Fig Tree {Ficus Sycomoms), a bushy tree of the 

 Mulberry family (Moracese), from 30 to 40 feet high, with lobed 

 heart-shaped leaves, something like the common fig, but smaller. 

 It is a native of Syria and Egypt, and has been called Pharaoh's 

 Fig. The fruit is small, but is produced in great abundance, and 

 is extensively used in Egypt for food. Although its wood is 

 light and soft, it is nevertheless very durable, mummy coffins 

 having been found made of it. That the Sycomore was common 

 in Palestine appears evident from the circumstance that King 

 Solomon made cedars " to be as the sycomore trees that are in 

 the vale, for abundance," also that it grew in the neighbourhood 

 of Jerusalem in the time of Christ, as we read that Zacchteus 

 " climbed up into a sycomore tree." 



Syringa. {See Lilac.) 



Tacamahaca. {See Poplar.) 



Talipot Palm {Corypha umhraculifera), a noble fan-leaved 

 palm, native of Ceylon, with a stout cylindrical stem, attain- 

 ing a height of 50 to 100 feet. Its fruit is a hard nut, like 

 ivory, and is converted into buttons, toys, etc. Its large 

 fan-shaped leaves are, like those of the Pahnyra Palm, carried 

 over the heads of people of rank as an umbrella ; they are also 

 used for making books, and for domestic purjDOses. C. Taliera 

 is similar in habit, but does not attain such a great height, and 

 is more common throuGjhout India. 



Tallicoonah, a name for Crab Oil (which see). 



