s and durability
render it valuable for various purposes. The flower buds and
unripe fruits yield a viscid yellow juice, useful as a dye, and a
thick, deep, red-colored oil is expressed from the seeds.

412. THEVETIA NERIIFOLIA.--This shrubby plant is common in the West
Indies and in many parts of Central America. Its bark abounds in a
poisonous milky juice, and is said to possess powerful properties.
A clear, bright, yellow-colored oil, called Exile oil, is
obtained, by expression, from the seeds.

413. THRINAX ARGENTEA.--This beautiful palm is called the Silver Thatch
palm of Jamaica, and is said to yield the leaves so extensively
used in the manufacture of hats, baskets, and other articles. It
is also a native of Panama, where it is called the broom palm, its
leaves being there made into brooms.

414. TILLANDSIA ZEBRINA.--A South American plant of the pineapple
family; the bottle-like cavity at the base of the leaves will
sometimes contain a pint or more of water, and has frequently
furnished a grateful drink to thirsty travelers.

415. TINOSPORA CORDIFOLIA.--A climbing plant, so tenacious of life that
when the stem is cut across or broken, a rootlet is speedily sent
down from above, which continues to grow until it reaches the
ground. A bitter principle, _calumbine_, pervades the plant. An
extract called galuncha is prepared from it, considered to be a
specific for the bites of poisonous insects and for ulcers. The
young shoots are used as emetics.

416. TRIPHASIA TRIFOLIATA.--A Chinese shrub, with fruit about the size
of hazelnuts, red-skinned, and of an agreeable sweet taste; when
green, they have a strong flavor of turpentine, and the pulp is
very sticky. They are also preserved whole in sirup, and are
sometimes called limeberries.

417. TRISTANIA NERIIFOLIA.--A myrtaceous plant from Australia, called
the turpentine tree, owing to its furnishing a fluid resembling
that product.

418. URCEOLA ELASTICA.--A plant belonging to the _Apocynaceae_, a native
of the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, where its milky juice,
collected by making incisions in its soft, thick, rugged bark, or
by cutting the trunk into junks, forms one of the kinds of
caoutchouc called juitawan, but it is inferior to the South
American, chiefly owing