204 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
in cold water, easily in alcohol and in ether; breaks up on boiling 
with dilute sulphuric or hydrochloric acid into sugar and another 
product. (Mueller and Rummel, in Wittstein’s Organic Con- 
stituents of Plants.) 
See also a paper by Prof. Rennie, of Adelaide, on Glycy- 
phyllin, the sweet principle of S. glycyphylla, in Fourn. Chem, 
Soc., December, 1886. 
New South Wales and Queensland. 
114. Sophora tomentosa, Zzzz., N.O., Leguminosz, B.Fl., ii., 
274. 
‘* Sea-coast Laburnum.” 
The roots and seeds have been considered as specifics in 
bilious sickness. (Bailey.) 
New South Wales to Northern Australia. 
115. Tabernemontana orientalis, &.87., N.O., Apocynez, B.FI., 
IN| Sik Te 
“ Bitter Bark.” 
This small tree has an intensely bitter bark, and a decoction 
of it is sometimes sold as “ bitters.’’ 
New South Wales to Northern Australia. 
116. Tacca pinnatifida, /ors/., N.O., Taccacezx, B.FI., vi. 458. 
The starch from the tubers is far preferable to that of any 
other arrowroot for dysentery. (Zreasury of Botany.) This 
plant is not endemic in Australia. 
Queensland and Northern Australia. 
LI ge Tephrosia purpurea, Pers. (Syn. Z. piscatoria, Pers.3025 
toxicaria, Gaud.; Z. Bauert, Benth.; Galega littoralis, 
Forst.; G. piscatoria, Sol.); N.O., Leguminosz, B.FI., ii. 
209. 
This plant is used in many tropical countries for the purpose 
of stupefying fish for the sake of capturing them. 
In India the plant is described as deobstruent and diuretic, 
useful in cough and tightness of the chest, bilious febrile attacks, 
obstructions of the liver, spleen and kidneys; the natives recom- 
