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sacred flowers. T. palula, the French 

 Marigold, is in France known by the name 

 of Petit CEillet d'Inde. Of this many 

 A r arieties are cultivated, some with double 

 flowers variegated with gold and orange- 

 brown. T. erecta, the African Marigold, 

 (Fr. Grand CEillet d'T.ide or Rose d'Inde) is a 

 larger plant, with double yellow flowers. 

 Tne scent of both these plants is strong 

 and offensive, but the more finely-cut con- 

 tinuous-flowering T. tenuifolia has a more 

 agreeable smell. T. lucida, a much smaller 

 plant, is a perennial, with simple lanceolate 

 finely-serrated leaves, and corymbs of small 

 yellow fragrant flowers. German : Sam- 

 metblume. [C. A. J.] 



TAIL-POINTED. Excessively acumi- 

 nated, so that the point is long and weak. 

 The same as Caudate. 



TAILWORTS. A name formerly given 

 by Lindley to the order Triuridacece. 



TAL, or TALA. An Indian name for the 

 Palmyra Palm, Borassus flabelliformis. 



TALARI. The wings of a papiliona- 

 ceous corolla. 



TALAUMA. One of the genera of Magno- 

 liacece, so called from the native name 

 applied to some of the South American 

 kinds. The species are trees or shrubs, of 

 tropical and subtropical regions of the Old 

 and New World ; and are remarkable for 

 their fine fragrant flowers. The floral 

 structure is much like that of Magnolia, 

 but the fruit differs in the fusion of its 

 constituent carpels, and in the irregularly 

 circular mode of splitting. The seeds ad- 

 here to the axis after the separation of the 

 carpels by means of a long elastic cord, as 

 in Magnolia and Michelia. [M. T M.] 



TALEA. A. cutting ; a small branch 

 employed to propagate a plant. 



TALESFUR. An Indian name for the 

 highly fragrant leaves of Rhododendron 

 Anthopogon, used as a medicinal snuff in 

 India. 



TALICTRON. (Fr.) Sisymbrium Sophia. 



TALINOPSIS. A genus of Portulacacem 

 from New Mexico, allied to the South 

 African Anacampseros, and the Chilian Gra- 

 hamia. It has much the habit of the 

 latter, from which it is distinguished by the 

 bractless flowers, leathery epicarp of the 

 three-valved capsule separating from the 

 papery three-valved endocarp, and wing- 

 less seeds. From Anacampseros it differs in 

 habit, in the persistent equal sepals, the 

 short style, and the coriaceous valves of 

 the capsule, which do not separate at the 

 base and fall away. It is an undershrub, 

 with five purple petals, and about twenty 

 stamens in five bundles. [J T. S.'J 



TALINUM. A genus of Portulacacem, 

 inhabiting the warmer parts of both he- 

 mispheres, but most abundant in Tropical 

 and Subtropical America. The genus is 

 distinguished by its deciduous sepals, ten 

 or twenty stamens, and three-valved cap- 

 sule with numerous wingless seeds. It 



consists of smooth fleshy herbs or under- 

 shrubs, with alternate or subopposite en- 

 tire exstipulate leaves, and cymose race- 

 mose or solitary flowers on axillary pe- 

 duncles, bearing white purple or yellow 

 very fugacious petals. T. patens, a native 

 of Brazil, is there used in the same way as 

 the common purslane. [J. T. S] 



TALIPAT, TALIPOT. Indian names 

 for Corypha umbraculifera and C. Taliera. 



TALISPATHREE, TALISPUTRIE. In- 

 dian names for Flacourtia catapliracta, a 

 plant used as a gentle astringent. 



TALLEH. An Arabic name for the Abys- 

 sinian Myrrh, produced by Acacia Sassa 

 and A. gummifera. 



TALLICOONAH. A medicinal oil made 

 in Sierra Leone from the seeds of Carapa 

 Touloucouna or C. guineensis. 



TALLOW-SHRUB. Myrica cerifera. 



TALLOW-TREE. Stillingia sebifera, the 

 seeds of which are covered with a waxy 

 substance, used in China for making 

 candles. 



TAMALT. A Mexican name for Lyco- 

 persicum esculentum. 



TAMANU. A green heavy resin from 

 the Society Islands, obtained from Calo- 

 phyllum Inophyllum. 



TAMARA. A Hindoo name for Nelum- 

 bium speciosum. 



TAMARACK. A North American name 

 for the Hackmatack or American Larch, 

 Abies pendula. 



TAMARA-TONGA. A Malabar name for 

 Averrhoa Carambola. 



TAMAB.ICACE.E. An -order of polype- 

 talous dicotyledons, consisting of shrubs 

 or undersbrubs, rarely trees or hard pros- 

 trate herbs, found chiefly in maritime 

 sands, or in sandy or gravelly places along 

 torrents in mountainous districts. Their 

 leaves are usually small entire and alter- 

 nate, often fleshy or reduced to scales ; the 

 flowers white or pink, sometimes solitary, 

 but more frequently in terminal spikes 

 racemes or panicles. Allied in many re- 

 spects to Portulacacem, Elatinacem, and Ily- 

 pericacece, they are at once known by the 

 structure of the ovary, which is not com- 

 pletely divided into cells, but contains three 

 placentas erect from the base of the cavity, 

 these being either quite free or cohering 

 variously with each other or with the 

 walls of the cavity, so as to form three 

 imperfect cells; and by the erect seeds 

 bearing long hairs, either in a terminal 

 tuft or all over the testa, or slightly united 

 in a marginal wing. The two principal 

 Asiatic and European genera, Tamarix 

 and Reaumuria, are regarded by some 

 botanists as types of distinct orders; 

 and the splendid Mexican genus Fouquiera, 

 differing chiefly m the large petals united 

 into a tubular corolla, has only recently 

 been associated with the Tamaricacem as a 

 third tribe. 



