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SELECT PLANTS READILY ELIGIBLE 



sand, never away from the coast. As a spinage-plant it is as 

 valuable as the succeeding species. It is well adapted for 

 the formation of bowers in arid places; it helps also to bind 

 sand. T. trigyna (Banks and Solander) seems identical. 



Tetranthera Californica, Hooker and Arnott."^ (Oreo- 



daphne Californica, Nees.) 

 Oregon and California, where it is called the Mountain-Laurel 

 or Bay-tree. On the banks of rivers attaining a height of 

 100 feet, throughout pervaded by a somewhat camphoric 

 odour. Wood hai'd, close-grained, durable, susceptible of a 

 high polish, easily worked, used for superior flooring, turnery 

 and manifold other select work. The tree is easily cultivated, 

 and of comj)aratively quick growth (Dr. Behr and Prof. 

 Bolander.) 



Tetranthera calophylla, Miquel. (Cylicodaphne sehifera, 

 Blume.) 



Mountains of Java and the ISTeilgherries. From the kernels 

 of the berries a tallow-like fat is pressed for the manufacture 

 of candles. The yield is comparatively large. Trial cultures 

 with this tree might be instituted in our humid forest- valleys. 

 T. laurifolia (Jacq.) of tropical Asia and Australia and T. 

 japonica (Sprengel) are noted as similarly utilitarian. 



Teucrium Marum, Linne. 



Countries at the Mediterranean Sea. A small somewhat 

 shrubby plant, in use for the sake of its scent, containing a 

 peculiar Stearopten. T. Scordium (L.) from Europe and 

 Middle Asia, T. Chamaedrys (L.), T. Folium (L.) 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. 



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 our shores; though 

 the root is iiiferior to a carrot, perhaps cultivation would 

 improve it. 



Thea Chinensis, Sims.* (Camellia Thea, Link.) 



The Tea-shrub of South-eastern Asia. This evergreen and 

 ornamental bush has proved quite hardy in our lowland 

 clime, where in exposed positions it endures without any 

 attention as well our night-frosts as also the free access of 

 scorching summer-winds. But it is in our humid valleys, 

 with rich alluvial soil and access to sj^rings for irrigation, 

 where only the most productive Tea-fields can be formed. 

 The. plant comes into plentiful bearing of its product as early 



