478 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Terminalia Chebula, Retzius. 



On the drier mountains of India, ascending to 5,000 feet, thence 

 to Upper Persia. A tree, rising to about 100 feet. The seeds are 

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

 the latter known as Myrobalans, serve for superior dye and power- 

 ful tanning material. Some of its congeners answer the same 

 purpose, among them T. Belerica (Roxburgh), which extends to 

 Persia. 



Terminalia tomentosa, Wight and Arnott. 



India, ascending to 4,000 feet. A tree, attaining to 100 feefc 

 height, of easy dissemination. Important for rearing particular 

 silkworms [Dr. Schlich]. 



Tetrag*onia expansa, Murray. 



The New Zealand Spinach, occurring also 011 many places of the 

 coast and in the desert-interior of Australia. Known further from 

 New Caledonia, China, Japan and Valdivia. An annual herb, use- 

 ful as a culinary vegetable, also for binding drift-sand. It pro- 

 duces its succulent branches and leaves even in the hottest weather 

 and driest localities [Rhind]. Rapid in growth. The seeds will 

 keep fully five years [Vilmoriii]. 



Tetras'onia 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 sands, never far 

 away from the coast. As a spinach-plant it is of not less value 

 than the preceding species. It is well adapted for the format on 

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

 trigyna (Banks and Solander) seems identical. 



Teucrium XVI arum, Linne. 



Countries on the Mediterranean Sea. A small, somewhat shrubby 

 plant, in use for the sake of its scent, containing a peculiar stearop- 

 ten. T. Scordium, from Europe and Middle Asia, T. Chamaedrys, 

 T. Polium and T. Creticum, L., from South-Europe, are occasionally 

 drawn into medical use. All these, together with many other 

 species from various countries, are pleasantly odorous, and fre- 

 quented by bees. 



Thapsia edulis, Bentham. (Monizia edulis, Lowe.) 



On the Island of Deserte Grande, near Madeira, where it is called 

 the Carrot-tree. It might be of some use, to bring this almost 

 shrubby umbellate to the cliffs of other shores ; though the root is 

 inferior to a carrot, perhaps cultivation would improve it. T. 

 decipiens, Bentham (Melanoselinum decipiens, Lowe) from Madeira, 

 is of palm-like habit and desirable for scenic effects in plant-group- 

 ing. T. Silphium (Viviani) is the Silphion of the ancients. 



