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waratah

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Warratta
English JS Main: 
waratah
English: 
"This small tree grows to about the height of eight or ten feet; its leaves / springing out alternately above each other, in this manner [diagram]. - When the flower / falls the pods appear underneath, sometimes to the number of six, (but not as / represented open,) from whence succeeding branches shoot and flourish as / the former." This is followed in darker ink and what appears to be a different hand "The Native name Warratta" The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category: 
flora: shrubs
Source: 
Painters
Line: 
12431
Respelt: 
warada
Part of speech: 
noun
Source Details: 
INDIGENOUS NAMES IN WORKS BY THE PORT JACKSON PAINTER, THOMAS WATLING etc. Watling Collection, Natural History Museum, London Transcribed by Keith V. Smith 2002 Watling, Thomas, 1762-1814? -------------- NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, LONDON <[WebCat] Search The Natural History Museum's library catalogue> The 5-digit numbers are the picture identification numbers quoted near the end of each entry. --------- Most or all of the items with an indigenous word attached are in the JS PAINTERS ringbinder, arranged alphabelically by a JS ’no hyphens’ transcription. ========= NO PAINTERS FILE: This is the PENCIL line number (in JS ’Painters’ ringbinder) supplied by Keith Smith. the page numbers entered by JS
Comment: 
[Watling Drawing - no. 431 : Plant, "Native name Warratta" / Thomas Watling]

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