ames of <i>River Poisonous Tree</i>
and <i>Blind-your-Eyes</i>--names alluding to the poisonous
juice of the stem.

The name <i>River Mangrove</i> is applied to <i>AEgiceras
majus</i>, Gaertn., <i>N.O. Myrsineae</i>, which is not endemic
in Australia.

In Tasmania, <i>Native Mangrove</i> is another name for the
<i>Boobialla</i> (q.v.)

<hw>Mangrove-Myrtle</hw>, <i>n</i>. name applied by Leichhardt
to the Indian tree <i>Barringtonia acutangula</i>, Gaertn.
(<i>Stravadium rubrum</i> De C.), <i>N.O. Myrtaceae</i>.

1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 289:

"As its foliage and the manner of the growth resemble
the mangrove, we called it the mangrove-myrtle."

<hw>Manna</hw>, <i>n</i>. the dried juice, of sweet taste,
obtained from incisions in the bark of various trees. The
Australian manna is obtained from certain Eucalypts, especially
<i>E. viminalis</i>, Labill. It differs chemically from the
better known product of the Manna-Ash (<i>Fraxinus ornus</i>).
See <i>Lerp</i>.

1835. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 99:

"Several of the species yield an exudation in the spring and
summer months, which coagulates and drops from the leaves to
the ground in small irregular shaped snow white particles,
often as large as an almond [?]. They are sweet and very
pleasant to the taste, and are greedily devoured by the birds,
ants, and other animals, and used to be carefully picked up and
eaten by the aborigines. This is a sort of Manna."

1878. R. Brough Smyth, `The Aborigines of Victoria,' vol. i.
p. 211:

"Two varieties of a substance called manna are among the
natural products . . . one kind . . . being secreted by the
leaves and slender twigs of the <i>E. viminalis</i> from
punctures or injuries done to these parts of the tree. . . .
It consists principally of a kind of grape sugar and about 5 %.
of the substance called mannite. Another variety of manna is
the secretion of the pupa of an insect of the <i>Psylla</i>
family and obtains the name of <i>lerp</i> among the
aborigines. At certain seasons of the year it is very abundant
on the leaves of <i>E. dumosa</i>, or mallee scrub . . ."

1878. W. W. Spicer, `Handbook of Plants of Tasmania, p. viii:

"The Hemipters, of which the aphids, or plant-lice, are a
familiar example, are furnished with stiff beaks, with which
they pierce the bark and leaves of various plants for the
purpose of extracting the juices. It is to the punctures of
this an