especting, 10

Sugar maple, 205

Sumatra, production of coffee in, 41

Sumatra, production of pepper in, 422

Sweet cassava, 331

Sweet potato, 330-31-37-65

Swift (Mr.) on the culture of madder, 480

Swamp potato, 373

_Sxygium carophyllaeum_, 384

_Sylvanus surinamensis_, 279

Symplocos, varieties of, 442

Tacca plant, species of, 354

Tahiti arrowroot, 354

Talipot palm, furnishes sago, 316

Tallicoonah oil, 518

Tallow tree of China, 512
tree of Java, 511
burning properties of, 509

Tanping, a Chinese oil cake, 312

Tannin of nutgalls, 492

Tannia, 334-35-36-37

Tanahaka bark, 505

Tapioca sago, 315
369

_Tasmannia aromatica_, 421

Taro, 364

Tartareous moss, 486

Taniers, or ocoes, 331

Taurine, Leibig on, 80

Tea, total outlay for by the British public, 86
extent to which the consumption might be pushed, 89
local consumption of in China, 86, 91
tannin in, 495
consumption of, 596
oil, 518
range of prices, 83
consumption of in the British empire, 84
in all other countries, 84
Mr. Montgomery Martin's statistics of, 84
quantity that might be used free of duty, 84
value of the exports from China,
high priced, used in the China market, 85
various Chinese names for, 105
immense trade in, 80
names of the green, 81
black, 81
original cost in China, 85
duty received on, 83

Teel or Til oil, 511, 533

Teff, an African bread, 308

Teinsing, a Chinese vegetable dye, 104

Temperature requisite for various plants, 8, 9

Tempering cane juice, 158

Tenacity of starches, 336

_Terminalia angustifolia_, 494
species of, 506

Terra Japonica, a misnomer, 490
statistics of imports, 502

Teuss, a Chinese legume, 312
oil, 215

Texas, production of sugar in, 147

_Thespesia populnea_, 444

_Thea viridis_, 103, 110
Bohea, 103, 110

Theine, analysis of, 80

Thistle oil, 511, 103, 110, 626
roots as food, 376

Theobromine, 11

_Theobroma_, description of the tree, 11

Tikoor, a local name for Indian arrowroot, 351

Til oil, 511

Tip-sin-ah, a wild prairie turnip of North America, 372

Tinnevelly senna, 648

Ti plant, 355

Tirhoot, production of indigo in, 475

Tobacco, memorial of American Chamber of Commerce, 595
culture of in the East, 61