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Aboriginal Names. —The late Sir William Macarthur gives, in the Exhibi¬ 
tion Catalogue, Paris, 1855, the name “ Oomburra,” and in the Exhibition Catalogue, 
London, 1862, the name “ Comburra,” for the “ Salt-water Swamp Oak,” a “ tall- 
growing species, found only near the margin of salt water; its wood not much 
valued.” lie gives the name “ Coomban” for the “ Forest Swamp Oak ” “ usually 
found in groups or small detached dense thickets in moist places, or ‘ open forest 
ground.’ Wood much used for purposes in which lightness and toughness are 
required.” 
I am inclined to think that the names are really identical, his own, or printer’s 
errors having contributed to the confusion. Perhaps even now the correct name or 
names may be obtained and recorded. “ Ngaree,” of the aborigines of Lake Hind- 
marsh Station (Victoria). Mr. F. M. Bailey (“ Queensland Flora,” p. 1490) quotes 
Mr. Watkins, who gives “ Billa ” as the aboriginal name of this tree at Stradbroke 
Island, and Mr. Wedd, who gives the name “ Woongul” as in use at St. George. 
The latter is an interior locality, and in view of my remarks at page 80, Part XIII, 
it might be ascertained if this “Woongul ” is not C. lepidophloia. 
Synonyms .— C. obesa, Miq., C. torulosa, Miq., non Ait. 
A. C. glauca, Sieb., and C. obesa, Miq. 
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In New South Wales (whence the type of C. glauca was obtained) the species 
is confined to the coastal districts. In Western Australia it is found far in the 
interior, and it became my duty to compare the New South Wales and Western 
Australian forms, to see if I could detect any difference between them. The 'Western 
Australian form was named C. obesa, Miq., and it appears to be identical with 
C. glauca, Sieb., in every particular. 
A recent botanist has the following :— 
Ccisuarina glauca, Miq. (? Sieb.—J. H. M.), (cum. C. obesa, Miq., B.F1., vi, 196). A dioecious tree, 
with erect branches, the internodes terete, glabrous, and glaucous, easily separable in a dried state, below 
the teeth slightly thickened, yellowish. Teeth 12-15, adpressed, brown at the base, white ciliate at the 
margin. Male amenta, with numerous imbricate internodes, hardy constricted at the base, the teeth 
adpressed. Cone shortly and thickly pedunculate, short and broad cylindrical, 12- to 15-stichous. 
Bracts short, rather long acuminate, shorter than the bracteoles and inconspicuous; bracteoles exserted) 
concave-trigonous, outside thickened on the back, white or brownish villous, pale and slightly hairy inside. 
Achaenium (nut) always pale, with an oblique wing. 
Hab. in the districts of Coolgardie, Avon, and Irwin, chiefly in depressions, loamy-sandy or 
argillaceous. Found also near the Swan River (all in W. A.). 
.p. 122. The nearly pan-Australian Casuarina glauca has a wide range in the 
interior of W. Australia. 
P. 123. After Eucalyptus, Casuarina furnishes the highest trees in Western Australia. The 
arborescent representatives of the genus require more moisture (than the shrubby ones), and are therefore, 
in the drier districts, confined to the depressions, and are characteristic of the presence of water. 
C. Iluegeliana and C. glauca are the most important of these “ Creek-species.” 
Casuarina obesa, Miq., the type of which we have examined, is the true C. glauca, and not 
C. Iluegeliana, as Bentham suggests in FI. Austr. vi, 197.—(L. Diels, in Engler’s Jahrbuch, vol. xxxv.) 
