Austral English Part 178

Native Orange, n. See under Orange.

Native Pa.s.sion-flower, n.

See Pa.s.sion-flower.

Native Peach, n. i.q. Quandong (q.v.).

Native Pear, n. See Hakea and Pear.

Native Pennyroyal, n. See Pennyroyal.

Native Pepper, n. See Pepper.

Native Plantain, n. See Plantain.

Native Plum, n. See Plum, Wild.

Native Pomegranate, n. See Orange, Native.

Native Potato, n. See Potato.

Native Quince, n. Another name for Emu-Apple. See Apple.

Native Raspberry, n. See Raspberry.

Native Rocket, n. See Rocket.

Native Sandalwood, n. See Sandalwood and Raspberry-Jam Tree.

Native Sarsaparilla, n.

See Sarsaparilla.

Native Sa.s.safras, n. See Sa.s.safras.

Native Scarlet-runner, n. See Kennedya.

Native Shamrock. n. See Shamrock.

Native Sloth, n. i.q. Native Bear.

See Bear.

Native Speedwell, n. See Speedwell.

Native Tamarind, n. See Tamarind-tree.

Native Tiger, n. See Tasmanian Tiger.

Native Tobacco, n. See Tobacco.

Native Tulip, n. See Waratah.

Native Turkey, n. Same as Wild Turkey.

A vernacular name given to Eupodotis australis, Gray, which is not a turkey at all, but a true Bustard. See Turkey.

Native Vetch, n. See Vetch.

Native Willow, n. See b.o.o.bialla and Poison-berry Tree.

Native Yam, n. See Yam.

Necho, and Neko. See Nikau.

Nectarine, Native, n. another name for Emu-Apple. See Apple.

Needle-bush, n. name applied to two Australian trees, Hakea leucoptera, R. Br., N.O. Proteaceae; called also Pin-bush and Water-tree (q.v.) and Beefwood; Acacia rigens, Cunn., N.O.

Leguminosae (called also Nealie). Both trees have fine sharp spines.

Negro-head Beech, n. See Beech.

Neinei, n. Maori name for New Zealand shrub, Dracophyllum longifolium, R. Br., also D. traversii, N.O. Epacrideae.

1865. J. Von Haast, `A Journey to the West Coast, 1865' (see `Geology of Westland,' p. 78):

"An undescribed superb tree like Dracophyllum, not unlike the D. latifolium of the North Island, began to appear here. The natives call it nene. (Named afterwards D. traversii by Dr. Hooker.) It has leaves a foot long running out into a slender point, of a reddish brown colour at the upper part, between which the elegant flower- panicle comes forth."

1883. J. Hector, `Handbook of New Zealand,' p. 128:

"Neinei, an ornamental shrub-tree, with long gra.s.sy leaves.

Wood white, marked with satin-like specks, and adapted for cabinet-work."

1888. J. Adams, `Transactions of New Zealand Inst.i.tute,' vol.

xxi. art. ii. p. 40:

"On the flat and rounded top the tallest plants are stunted neinei."

Nephrite, n. See Greenstone.

Nestor, n. scientific name for a genus of New Zealand Parrots. See Kaka and Kea.

1863. S. Butler, `First Year in Canterbury Settlement,' p. 58:

"There was a kind of dusky, brownish-green parrot too, which the scientific call a Nestor. What they mean by this name I know not. To the unscientific it is a rather dirty-looking bird, with some bright red feathers under its wings. It is very tame, sits still to be petted, and screams like a parrot."

Nettle-tree, n. Two species of Laportea, N.O. Urticaceae, large scrub-trees, are called by this name--Giant Nettle, L. gigas, Wedd., and Small-leaved Nettle, L. photiniphylla, Wedd.; they have rigid stinging hairs. These are both species of such magnitude as to form timber-trees. A third, L. moroides, Wedd., is a small tree, with the stinging hairs extremely virulent.

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1849. J. P. Townsend, `Rambles in New South Wales,' p. 34:

"In the scrubs is found a tree, commonly called the nettle- tree (Urtica gigas). It is often thirty feet in height, and has a large, broad, green leaf. It is appropriately named; and the pain caused by touching the leaf is, I think, worse than that occasioned by the sting of a wasp."