tsikar daji (Sok.), or tsikar dawa; also kibiyar daji Cymbopogon diplandrum, Hack. var. a tall grass covering large areas of uncultivated ground; used for thatch, &c. (Etym. from the recurved pointed flowering spikes). Syn. [tuma da gobara], q.v. (Other tall species of the same genus are probably included).
tsikar gida or tsikar sabra (ts. saura) (Sok.), Leonotis pallida, Benth. (Labiatæ); a tall weed better known as [kain mutum] or [kain ḅarawo], q.v.
tsintsiya, 1. Panicum subalbidulum, Kunth. (Gramineæ). A grass 3 to 4 feet high; used for thatching and for brooms, and planted as a field boundary.
2. Eragrostis sp. (?E. biformis, Kunth.). A grass of wet places, used for thatch; the species commonly sold for brooms.
tsira faḳo, Stylosanthes erecta, Beauv. (Leguminosæ). A herb with fragrant viscid leaves and small yellow flowers. (Etym. from growing up on hard bare areas).
tsiyayi = ḳeḳasheshe; vide under [rama].
tsu or farin tsu, Pavonia hirsuta, Guill. et Perr. (Malvaceæ). A shrub with broad harshly hairy leaves and large yellow flowers with purple centre. (Urena lobata, Linn. Malvaceæ, is sometimes distinguished as jan tsu; vide [ramaniya]).
tsuku or tsuwuku (Kano), Biophytum sensitivum, DC. (or Oxalis sensitiva, Geraniaceæ); a small pinnate-leaved herb with the habit of a tiny palm and salmon-pink flowers; as in the “Sensitive Plant” the leaves contract when touched. (Popular names are mata gara ḳafafunki, rufe rumbu, ka buḍi ka noḳe, &c. (noḳewa = contracting or withdrawing).
tsura, vide [tsibra].
tsuwawun biri, Vitis cornifolia, Bak. (Ampelideæ), an erect plant of the vine family, with ovoid pointed berries; root medicinal. Syn. ?rigyar biri.