and Descriptive
Delineations of the Island of Van Dieman's Land,' p. 133:

"Of course they [the Bushrangers] are subject to numerous
privations, particularly in the articles of tea, sugar,
tobacco, and bread; for this latter article, however, they
substitute the wild yam, and for tea they drink a decoction of
the sassafras and other shrubs, particularly one which they
call the tea-tree bush."

1820. W. C. Wentworth, `Description of New South Wales,'
p. 175:

"On Monday the bushrangers were at a house at Tea-tree Brush."

1827. P. Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol. i.
p. 200:

"The leaves of the tea-tree furnished the colonists with a
substitute for the genuine plant in the early period of the
colony, and from their containing a saccharine matter required
no sugar."

1830. R. Dawson, `Present State of Australia,' p. 78:

"This boy got some bark from a tree called the tea-tree, which
makes excellent torches."

1832. J. Bischoff, `Van Diemen's Land,' c. ii. p. 25:

"The tea-tree grows in wet situations . . . the leaves infused
make a pleasant beverage, and with a little sugar form a most
excellent substitute for tea."

1834. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 134:

"<i>Leptospermum lanigerum</i>, Hoary tea-tree; <i>Acacia
decurrens</i>, Black wattle; <i>Conaea alba</i>, Cape-Barren
tea. The leaves of these have been used as substitutes for tea
in the colony, as have also the leaves and bark of
<i>Cryptocarya glaucescens</i>, the Australian Sa<i>s</i>afras"
(sic) [q.v.].

1845. J. O. Balfour, `Sketch of New South Wales,' p. 39:

"The Australian myrtles, or tea-trees, are to be found in thick
clusters, shading rocky springs. . . . Its leaves I have
seen made into a beverage called tea. It, however, was
loathsome, and had not the slightest resemblance to any known
Chinese tea."

1845. R. Howitt, `Australia,' p. 85:

"Often we had to take the boat down the river several miles,
to cut reeds amongst the tea-tree marshes, to thatch our houses
with."

1846. G. H. Haydon, `Five Years in Australia Felix;' p. 33:

"A great quantity of the tea-tree (<i>Leptospermum</i>) scrubs,
which formerly lined both banks of the Yarra."

(p. 84): "It is allied to the myrtle family (<i>Melaleuca</i>)
. . . A decoction of the leaves is a fair substitute for tea,
yielding a beverage of a very aromatic flavour."

1855. W. Howitt, `Two Years in Victoria,' vol. i. p. 210:

"Dense with tea-trees a