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A s imil ar case is " Yangoora," " Yangoura," and " Yanggura " in use in Gippsland 

 and eastern New South Wales for E. capitellata and E. numerosa, different trees furnishing 

 the aborigines with tying material. " Urar " of the late T. Petrie and " Urara " or 

 " Orara " of A. Meston, the aboriginal name for E. maculata, the Spotted Gum, said to 

 give its name to the Orara River of northern New South Wales, is another case. 



I think that the vast majority of ascertained aboriginal names, believed to be 

 capable of identification, will be found in the indexes of the various volumes of the present 

 work, and need not be separately set out here. Also that there is good work to be done 

 in ascertaining aboriginal names for Eucalypts arranged in districts and as given below ; 

 clues to the amplification of such groups of names can be ascertained from the indexes. 

 No doubt someone wall take up the subject as a self-imposed task. 



One of our earliest Eucalyptus aboriginal name lists will be found in " Discoveries 

 in Australia in H.M.S. ; Beagle,' " 1837-43, by Captain Lort Stokes, II, 132 (1846), 

 as follows : — 



Mahogany 



.. Jarrail ... 



... E. 



marginata ? 



Grows on white sandy land. 



Red Gum 



.. Kardan 



... E. 



calophylla 



On loamy land. 



Blue Gum 



.. Co-lort 



... E. 



diversicolor 



On river banks and flooded lands, a 

 sure indication of the vicinity of 



water. 



White Gum 



.. Wando • 



... E. 



redunca var. elata. 



On stiff, clay lands, sometimes tapped 

 for water contained in hollow trunk. 



York Gum 



.. To-art ... 



... E. 



faecunda. 



. Abundant in York — on good soD. 



Cable Gum 



.. Gnardarup 



... E. 



6alubris. 



Like several stems twisted together 

 abundant in interior. 





Wooruc... 



... E. 



salmonophloia. . . 



. Brown, glossy stem, smooth. 





Gnelarue 





... 



. Nankeen-coloured .stem. 





Mallat ... 



... E. 



astringens. 



. Tall, straight, rough bark. 





Morrail ... 



... E. 



longicornis. 



Nearly similar. 





Balwungar 







Glaucous-leaved. 



In the above, " Jarrail " may have been simply a mistake in writing for " Jarrah " ; 

 " Mallat " is " Mallet " (although the term " rough-bark " puzzles me), and " Morrail " 

 is " Morrel." The names " Gnelarue " and " Bulwungar " are unknown to me. 



Columns 1, 2, and 4 are in the original. Column 3 has been supplied by me. 

 Column 4 is the first soil report as regards Western Australian species with which I am 

 acquainted. 



E. gomphocephala DC, which is mainly coastal in Western Australia, goes by the 

 name " Tuart," which is, as far as I am aware, exclusive at the present time. Old spellings 

 are " Tewart " and " Too-art." Captain Lort Stokes, as quoted above, speaks of the 

 York Gum (the usual name for E. fascunda Schauer) as abundant on good soil, and adds 

 that the native name is " To-art." Just about the same time, that is to say, at the end 

 of the thirties, Drummond writes to Sir. J. D. Hooker in the London Journal of Botany 



