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teutot Bread. .The popular name Elephant's Foot is given to it 

 from the resemblance which small plants bear to the rough 

 foot of that animal. Large plants of it are frequently imported 

 into this country. 



Totara, a name in New Zealand for Podocarpus Totara, a tree 

 of the Yew tree family (Taxace^). It attains a height of 

 from 60 to 120 feet. The wood is somewhat like cedar, fine- 

 grained and very durable, and is used for carpenter's work of all 

 kinds ; the largest canoes of the natives are made of it. 



Touch-me-not {Imioatiens Noli-me-tangere), an annual of the 

 Balsam family (Balsaminaceae), native of this country, attaining 

 a height of 2 to 3 feet. Its seed-vessel, which is 2 inches in 

 length, bursts open with force, expelling the seed with a slight 

 noise. 



Tous-les-mois. {See Arrowroot.) 



Tow, a name in Tahiti for Cordia sicbcordata, a tree of the 

 Sebesten family (Cordiace?e), attaining a height of 50 to 60 

 feet. It is similar in appearance to C. Schestena of the East and 

 West Indies ; but its orange-coloured flowers are neither so 

 brilliant nor so numerous. The wood is of a dark-red colour, 

 and is used for frames of huts ; its leaves yield a red dye, used 

 by the natives for colouring their tapa cloth ; its bark is tough, 

 and used for making^ nets. 



Towai, a name in New Zealand for Fagus Menziesii, a 

 tree of the Oak family (Cupuliferse), 80 to 100 feet high, and 2 

 to 3 feet in diameter. The wood is durable, and adapted for 

 masts, oars, etc., and for cabinet-work. 



Tragacanth. {See Gum.) 



Traveller's Joy. {See Virgin's Bower.) 



Traveller's Tree {Urania speciosa), a palm-like tree of the 

 Musa family. This noble plant, a native of Madagascar, is also 

 known as Bavencda madagccscarieiisis. It has a cylindrical stem, 

 about 1 foot in diameter and 30 or more feet in height. It has 

 large leaves like the 3Iicsa Etiscte, but set in two rows (dis- 

 tichous), and they have their foot -stalks dilated at the base 

 firmly imbricate over one another. The flower-spike is short 



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