522 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Tagetes glandulig-era, Schranck. 



South-America. This vigorous annual plant is said by Div 

 Prentice to be pulicifugous. 



Tamarindus Indica, Linn. 



Tropical Asia and Africa. This magnificent, large, expansive 

 tree ranges northward to Egypt, and was found in North-Western 

 Australia by the writer of this list ; reaches a very great age. 

 Final stem-girth of 25 feet not rare. Never leafless. Varieties 

 occur, according to Brandis, with sweetish red pulp. It is indicated 

 here not without hesitation, to suggest, trials of its acclimation in 

 regions of the temperate zone, with a warm, humid, and equable 

 temperature. In East- Australia, slightly outside the tropics it bears 

 still abundantly, and it remains hardy at all events as far south as 

 Morton-Bay. In some situations it is attacked by boring insects 

 [EdgarJ. The acid pulp of the pods forms the medicinal tamarind, 

 rich in formic and butyric acid, irrespective of its other contents ; 

 cold made into a syrup, it can be kept for preparing an acidulous 

 beverage. 



Tamarix dioica, Roxburgh. 



India, up to 2,500 feet. An important shrub for binding newly 

 formed river-banks, even in saline soil. 



Tamarix Gallica, Linn.* 



Southern Europe, Northern and tropical Africa, Southern and 

 Eastern Asia, ascending the Himalayas to 11,000 feet; hardy still 

 at Christiania. Attains a height of 30 feet in Algeria, according to 

 Cosson. Adapts itself in the most extraordinary manner to the most 

 different localities. It will grow alike in water and the driest soil, 

 also in salty ground, and is one of the most grateful and tractable 

 plants in culture ; it is readily multiplied from cuttings, which strike 

 root as easily as a willow, and push forth stems with unusual vigor. 

 Hence it is one of the most eligible bushes for planting on coast- 

 sand, to stay its movements, or for lining embankments. Furnishes 

 material for a superior charcoal [W. H. Colvill] and various 

 implements [Brandis]. Yields in its native countries a kind of 

 of manna and of gall. According to Dr. Aitchison much employed 

 for all sorts of basket- and wattle-work in Afghanistan. The red 

 bark of the branches renders handles from them very pretty, which 

 can be ^aid also of T. macrocarpa (Bunge). Planted much in 

 cemeteries. The period of flowering can be altered by the extent 

 and time of pruning. In Australia first largely sent out by the 

 writer. 



