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of some laxative properties it may possess. 

 This I concluded from signs made by tiie 

 native whom I y:ave some to eat. He ate 

 some, and dissolved some of it in water 

 later on, and drank this ; but all he con- 

 sumed was but little, nothing like that he 

 would have done had he considered it good 

 food. 



Wairu, Bulgar yumbu, the gum of 



the sugar- or sandal-tree 

 Dumbai,* peach, quandaug (Santa- 



lum acuminatum) 

 Miduru, cypress pine (Callitris ver- 

 rucosa) 

 Milgar, grass-tree (XantJiorrhea 



Preissii 

 Molilli, casuarina, shrub (C. huniilis) 

 Tarlannu, casuarina, tree (C. acuti- 



valvis) 

 Kararda, mallee, shrub-like kind 



(Eucalyptus incrassata) 

 Yulga, grass 

 Battara, rush (Lepidospernia 



graoile) 

 Niurni, Dianella revoluta 

 Bambul, lichen 

 Bulbul, Bovista sp. 

 Yera, root 

 Ueni, bark 

 Dalgalla, leaf 

 Nieru, flower 

 Milga, fruit, seed, kernel 

 Baldal, Mindi, prickles or thorns 



Also in zoology— for instance, the spines 

 on the back of Moloch horridos, 



Gnora milgar, resin of Xanthorrhc^ 

 Gnora miduru, resin of Callitri^ 



verrucosa 

 Kari, gum of mallee (Wawalya) 

 Kauwa yauwilli, Tundul yauwilli, 



the seed of Yauwilli (Acacia 



leiophylla) 



This, like all other acacia seeds, is used 

 for food by the aborigines. In the interior 

 near most of the rockholes shallow depres- 

 sions may be seen on the Hat-lying rocks, 

 where seeds have been ground for genera- 

 tions, by which the surface has become 

 polished in these places. 1 think the terms 

 Kauwa and Tundul stand for all similar 

 seeds, and the name of the tree whence 

 gathered from is attached for the distinc- 

 tion. 



The gum of Yauwilli is also a favorite 

 food, and always eagerly eaten when found 

 during a day's tramp. 



Waiyul, the edible flesh of the 

 peach and other fruits of the same 

 genus. Waiyul means also skin 

 Vide above. 



Nurgu nurgu, Boiya (East), Tliy- 



sanotus Patersoni 



Also the bulb roots of this plant, wliich 

 are used as food and eaten rav\'. 



Malli malli, Thysanotus Patersoni 



The plant and tendrils of it. 

 Uarga, kurrajong-tree (Bracliyclii- 



ton Gregorii) 

 ('hal, roly poly, iSalsola kali 

 Bogarra, lignum, Mueiilenbeckia 



Cunningliamii 

 Pindan,t Kuyal (East), Geijera 



parviflora 

 Yinnaguyal, Gnephosis sp. 



The word seems to be a compound of 

 Yinna (foot) and guyal, or kuyal (green), 

 which also seem to designate anything 

 green, i.e., a plant. This would construe 

 Yinnaguyal into a "lou- plant," one that 

 grows near the feet. 



Yalyal, Teeoma australis 



Buddad, Maddambur(East), Ererao- 



phila latifolia 

 Daryet, Irdarda, Kremophila alter- 



nifolia 

 Moil-tawari, Eremophila longifolia 

 Darrul,t Exoearpus aphylla 

 Darjeru, Alyxia buxifolia 

 Peiyul, Bandi (East), ilelalcuca 



clliptica 

 Warralya, Milkupuddi,t Eucalyp- 

 tus largiflorens, var. 

 Tunder, Menuo (East), Acacia sali- 



cina 

 Billalla, Kurdeniug (East), Acacia 



subcoerulea 

 Badinni, Waingwaing, xVoacia sp. 

 Mulda mulda, Oxalis coniiculata 

 DuUi dulli, Wunduwundait, Hibis- 

 cus Farragei 

 Wurdun gaidyi, Erodium cynorum 

 Bindal bindal, Helipterum fioribun- 



dum 

 Wandurgundur (If^ast), PJi'ecIithites 



quadridentatus 

 Warot, Cassia Sturtii 

 Wallun, Aster sp. , shrub 

 Wardurbitti, Pittosporum philly- 



roides 

 Warril, Baru,t Beyeria viscosa 

 Mulda mulda, Ptilotus spathulatus 



This name, also gi\en me for Oxalis 

 oorniculata, makes me think that Mulda 

 mulda is a term for any low-growing plant 

 which is not specially named, or for which 

 the name is unknown by the native asked. 

 As anyone might say" a weed " tlmt wished 

 to generalise. 



» Names marked thus are also used to the east of F. K.; 

 the west of v. It. 



those marked 1 are also used to 



