414 DICTIONARY OF POPULAR NAMES TOCUSSA 



and leaves are powerfully acrid. It is nevertheless employed as 

 a stimulant in low fevers, and other conditions of debility ; also 

 in paralytic affections. Externally it is much used as a tincture 

 applied to bruises, wounds, and sprains. Its peculiar properties are 

 due to a resinous substance called ArniciriCj and to a volatile oil. 



Tocussa. {See Natchnee.) 



Toddy. {See Palm Wine.) 



Toi Grass, the native Xew Zealander's name for Arunclo 

 conspicim, a tufted caespitose grass, producing a culm from 3 to 4 

 feet high, bearing a feathery plume similar to that of the pampas 

 grass ; but it is not so hardy, as in this country it requires the 

 protection of a greenhouse. 



Toko -Pat {Livistona Jenkinsiana), a fan -leaved palm of 

 moderate height, native of ISTepal. The leaves are used for 

 making the peculiar umbrella hats worn by the natives, also for 

 thatching, etc. 



Tomato, or Love Apple (Lycopersicum csculcntum), an annual 

 of the Mghtshade family (Solanaceai), a weak, trailing plant, 

 with a soft stem, winged leaves, and yellow flowers. It is a 

 native of South America, and is cultivated in most warm coun- 

 tries for the sake of its fruit. It succeeds best in this country 

 when trained against walls. There are several varieties, bearing- 

 large red or sometimes yellow fruit, which are used for culinary 

 .purposes, the well-known sauce call Tomato Sauce being made 

 from them. Tomatoes are extensively grown in Arlington and 

 Belmont, United States, and preserved in tins for trade. 



Tonga. — Under this name there have been of late received in 

 this country from the Fiji Islands small packets of leaves, bark, 

 and woody fibres, so broken up as to be most difficult of botanical 

 determination. Some of the fragments, however, show traces of 

 the roots or stems of an Aroideous plant, and they have since 

 been determined as belonging to the genus Epipremnum, and 

 possibly to E. vitiensis, the remaining bark and leaf fragments 

 being yielded, it is said, by Premna taitensis, a verbenaceous plant 

 which probably has no active principles whatever. The drug 

 seems to have an extraordinary effect in cases of neuralgia. 



