Sugar, information respecting, 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