Thun
LAKE OF, a body of water 11 miles long and 2 miles wide, in the THUNDERBOLT canton of Berne, Switzerland. It lies about 1,800 feet above sea-level, in a beautiful region annually visited by great numbers of tourists. On its E. shore is the town of Interlaken, and on its W., Thun, the latter being the starting point of tourists to the Bernese Oberland.
There are steamers on the lake and the two towns are joined by a railroad.
THUNBERGIA (named after Carl Peter Thunberg, 1743-1828), a Swedish traveler, botanist, and professor of natural history at Upsal, in botany a genus of Gardenida, sometimes made a synonym of Gardenia. Involucre two-leaved; calyx about 12-toothed; corolla campanulate; capsule beaked, two-celled. Handsome and frag fragrant climbers, cultivated in gardens for the beauty of their flowers.
T. fragrans has cordate, acuminate leaves; T. grandiflora angular, cordate leaves, larger flowers with no inner calyx, and the anthers bearded and spurred.
Both are natives of the East Indies.