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‖ tous-les-mois|tulemwa|
[F., = ‘all the months, every month’; but probably a popular perversion of toloman, according to Duss and Jumelle the name in the French Antilles, prob. of native S. American origin.]
The name in St. Kitts, etc., of species of Canna, esp. C. edulis, and of the starch obtained from its root-stocks, also called tous-les-mois starch.
Canna coccinea was introduced into W. Indies from S. America in 1731; C. edulis from Peru in 1820 (A. W. Hill, Kew). Samples of the farina were sent to England from St. Kitts in 1835–6: see Ryan's Med. & Surg. Jrnl. Aug. 1836, and Morning Chron. 4 Aug. 1837.
1839Olphers Let. cited in Pharm. Jrnl. VII. 56 (On the Canna Achira or Tous les Mois). 1858Hogg Veg. Kingd. 787 The article known as Tous-les-mois is obtained from the root-stocks of some species of Canna... The substance is prepared in the island of St. Kitts. 1861Bentley Man. Bot. 669 One or more species of this genus [Canna] yield ‘Tous les mois’, a very pure and useful starch, now largely consumed in this country and elsewhere. 1867J. Hogg Microsc. i. ii. 153 The larger-grained starches form splendid objects; tous-les-mois being the largest may be taken as a type of all the others. |