waratah
Language:
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?
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The 5-digit numbers are the picture identification numbers quoted near the end of each entry.
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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.
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Comment:
[Watling Drawing - no. 431 : Plant, "Native name Warratta" / Thomas Watling]