[Sinhalese takkada.] The Malayan rice-paper plant, Scævola Lobelia (or Königii), an erect shrub found on the sea-shores of tropical Asia, Australia, and Polynesia; its young stems have a pith resembling that of the rice-paper plant (Aralia papyrifera), and used by the Malays for making artificial flowers, etc.
1866. Treas. Bot., 1027/2. S[cævola] Lobelia (alias S. Königii and S. Taccada), the Taccada of India and Ceylon.
1887. Moloney, Forestry W. Afr., 376. Taccada of India and Ceylon (Scævola Lobelia, L.).—Shrubby plant.
