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ovate, acuminate, smooth; petioles reflexed; stem twining. 
This has a twining woody stalk, which twists about the 
neighbouring trees for support, and rises to the height of ten 
or twelve feet, sending out several slender woody branches. 
—Native of Jamaica. 
4 . Tournefortia syringsefolia, or lilac-leaved tournefortia.— 
Leaves subcordate-ovate, acuminate, smooth; spikes branched. 
—Found in Cayenne. 
5. Tournefortia foetidissima, or fetid tournefortia.—Leaves 
ovate-lanceolate, rough-haired; peduncles branched; spikes 
pendulous. 
6 . Tournefortia humilis, or dwarf tournefortia.—Leaves 
lanceolate, sessile; spikes simple, recurved, lateral. 
7. Tournefortia bicolor, or two-coloured tournefortia.— 
Leaves ovate, acuminate, smooth, somewhat wrinkled above; 
spikes cymed, erect, recurved. 
8 . Tournefortia cymosa, or broad-leaved tournefortia.— 
Leave ovate, quite entire, naked; spikes cymed. 
9. Tournefortia argentea, or silvery tournefortia.—Leaves 
ovate, obtuse, tomentose-silky; spikes terminating, com¬ 
pound. 
10. Tournefortia sericea, or silky tournefortia.—Leaves 
ovate-lanceolate, beneath tomentose-silky ; spikes lateral and 
terminating, dichotomous-panicled. 
11. Tournefortia suffruticosa, or hoary-leaved tournefortia. 
—Leaves sublanceolate, hoary; stem suflfruticose. 
Propagation and Culture. —These plants are propagated 
by seeds, which must be procured from the countries where 
they grow naturally; these should be sown in.small pots 
filled with light earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of tanners 
bark. 
TOURNETTE, a mountain of the Alps, in Savoy, near 
Annecy. Its height is nearly 7200 feet above the level of the 
sea. 
To TO'URNEY, v. n. To tilt in the lists. 
An elfin born of noble state, 
Well could he tourney, and in lists debate. Spenser. 
TO'URNIQUET, s. A bandage used in amputations, 
straitened or relaxed by the turn of a handle.—If the orifice 
does not readily appear, loosen the tourniquet, and the 
effusion of blood will direct you to it. Sharp. 
TOURNON, a small town in the south-east of France, 
department of the Ardeche, situated on a declivity near the 
Rhone. It has a population of 3500. On the opposite bank 
of the Rhone is cultivated the well known wine called hermit¬ 
age ; 12 miles north-by-west of Valence, and 60 south-east 
of Lyons. 
TOURNON, a small town in the south-west of France, 
department of the Lot and Garonne, with 1100 inhabitants; 
14 miles of Villeneuve, and 22 north east of Agen. 
TOURNUS, a small town in the east of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Saone and Loire, situated on the Saone. Popu¬ 
lation 5200; 17 miles south of Chalons, and 20 north of 
Macon. 
TOUROUVRE, a small town in the north of France, de¬ 
partment of the Orne. Population 1700; 7 miles north-east 
of Mortagne. 
TOURRETTIA [so named by Dombey from Mons. 
de la Tourrette, author of Chloris Lugdunensis, and Bo¬ 
tanic® Scholse Veterinari® Lugd. praelectiones], in Botany, 
a genus of the class didynamia, order angiospermia, natural 
order of person at®, bignoni® (Juss.) —Generic Character. 
Calyx: perianth one-leafed, tubular, before flowering co¬ 
loured, two-lipped ; upper lip acute, lower indistinctly four¬ 
toothed, having a membrane internally; permanent. Co¬ 
rolla one-petalled; tube compressed, length of the calyx; 
upper lip galeate, compressed, with the margins converging; 
lower lip none, but in place of it a double toothlet. Sta¬ 
mina: filaments four, filiform, concealed under the upper 
lip, two of them shorter. Anthers two-lobed. Pistil: germ 
oblong, somewhat four-cornered, tubercled. Style filiform, 
length and situation of the lip. Stigma bifid. Pericarp: 
capsule oblong, coriaceous, muricate with spines, (some of 
which are hooked,) four-celled, two-valved. Seeds few 
(four to six) in each cell, subtriquetrous, ovate, girt with a 
membranaceous margin, emarginate and crenulate at the 
base, covered with a common membrane .—Essential Cha¬ 
racter. Calyx two-lipped. Corolla: lower lip none, but 
two toothlets instead of it. Capsule echinate, four-celled, 
two valved. 
Tourrettia lappacea. Root annual. Stem scandent, 
four-cornered, fistulous, branched. Leaves opposite the 
primordial ones ternate, lateral leaflets two-parted, at the 
next knot double-ternate without a tendril, at the upper 
knots of the stem ternate-decompound or pedate, with the 
common petiole growing out into a convoluted branched 
tendril. Flowers in a naked terminating raceme, of a dusky 
violet colour. At the base of the peduncles, which are 
alternate and very short, there is a bristle-shaped bracte.— 
Native of Peru. 
TOURS, a small town in the central part of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Puy de Dome. Population nearly 2000; 25 miles 
east-by-south of Clermont. 
TOURS, a considerable town in the central part of France, 
the capital of the department of the Indre and Loire. It is 
situated in a delightful plain,in one of the finest parts of Franee. 
It stands on the south or left bank of the Loire, a little above 
the spot where that river is joined by the Cher. The climate 
is considerably warmer than in Britain during summer; the 
winters are not long, but at intervals sharp. Tours being the 
capital of a department, contains a prefecture, and the dif¬ 
ferent offices connected with it. Its environs contain a greater 
number of neat country houses than is common in French 
towns; 70 miles east of Angers, and 145 south-south-west of 
Paris. Lat. 47. 23. 46. N. long. 0. 40. 38. E. 
TOURTERELLES, a cluster of small islands in the Indian 
sea, near the eastern coast of Africa. Lat. 11.50. N. 
TOURVES, a town in the south-east of France, department 
oftheVar. Population nearly 3000 ; 22 miles north of Tou¬ 
lon. 
TOURVILLE, a small town in the north of France, de¬ 
partment of the Eure. Population 1100; 10 miles west of 
Louviers. 
To TOUSE, v. a. [probably of the same original with 
taw, tease, tose.~\ To pull; to tear; to haul; to drag: 
whence touser, or towzer, the name of a mastiff. 
Take him hence; to the rack with him : 
We’ll towse you joint by joint. 
But we will know his purpose. Shahspeare. 
To towze such things as flutter. 
To honest Bounce is bread and butter. Swift. 
To disorder the hair. Cotgrave, and Sherwood .—It is 
yet used, in some places, for disordering the dress. 
To TOUSE, v. n. To tear; to rave. 
She, struggling still with those 
That ’gainst her rising pain their utmost strength oppose. 
Starts, tosses, tumbles, strikes, turns, touses, spurns, and 
sprawls, 
Casting with furious limbs her holders to the walls. Drayton. 
To TO'USLE, v. a. The diminutive of touse in the 
second sense: a low expression. 
TOUSSAINT, a river of North America, which enters Lake 
Erie ; 20 miles east of the Miami. 
TOUTTI, a small town of Nubia, on the western bank of 
the Nile; 90 miles north of Sennaar. 
TOUVET, a large village in the south-east of France, near 
the river Isere. Population 1100; 18 miles north-east of 
Grenoble. 
TOUVRE, a small but navigable river in the west of France, 
which falls into the Charente, near Angouleme. 
TOU-YANG, a town of China, of the second rank, in 
Quang-see. Lat. 23. 18. N. long. 107. 4. E. 
TOU-YUN, a city of China, of the first rank, in the pro¬ 
vince of Koeitchoo, separated only by a hill from the terri¬ 
tory of a people called the Miaose, a barbarous race, whom 
the Chinese have never been able to subdue. Lat. 26.12. N. 
long. 107. 2. E. 
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