le</hw>, <i>n</i>. In England, the name is applied
to an inferior species of <i>Sole</i>. In New South Wales,
it is given to <i>Plagusia unicolor</i>, Mad., of the family
<i>Pleuronectidae</i> or <i>Flat-fishes</i>. In New Zealand,
it is another name for the New Zealand <i>Turbot</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Lemon, Wild</hw>, <i>n</i>. a timber tree, <i>Canthium
latifolium</i>, F. v. M., <i>N.O. Rubiaceae</i>; called also
<i>Wild Orange</i>.

<hw>Lemon-Wood</hw>, <i>n</i>. one of the names given by
settlers to the New Zealand tree called by Maoris <i>Tarata</i>
(q.v.), or <i>Mapau</i> (q.v.). It is <i>Pittosporum
eugenoides</i>, A. Cunn., <i>N.O. Pittosporeae</i>.

<hw>Leopard-Tree</hw>, <i>n</i>. an Australian tree,
<i>Flindersia maculosa</i> (or <i>Strezleckiana</i>), F. v. M.,
<i>N.O. Meliaceae</i>; called also <i>Spotted-Tree </i>(q.v.),
and sometimes, in Queensland, <i>Prickly Pine</i>.

<hw>Lerp</hw>, <i>n</i>. an aboriginal word belonging to the
Mallee District of Victoria (see <i>Mallee</i>). Sometimes
spelt <i>leurp</i>, or <i>laap</i>. The aboriginal word means
`sweet.' It is a kind of manna secreted by an insect, Psylla
eucalypti, and found on the leaves of the Mallee, <i>Eucalyptus
dumosa</i>. Attention was first drawn to it by Mr. Thomas
Dobson (see quotations). A chemical substance called
<i>Lerpamyllum</i> is derived from it; see Watts' `Dictionary
of Chemistry,' Second Supplement, 1875, s.v.

1848. W. Westgarth, `Australia Felix,' p. 73:

"The natives of the Wimmera prepare a luscious drink from the
laap, a sweet exudation from the leaf of the mallee
(<i>Eucalyptus dumosa</i>)."

1850. T. Dobson, `Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society
of Van Diemen's Land,' vol. i. p. 235:

"The white saccharine substance called `lerp,' by the
Aborigines in the north-western parts of Australia Felix, and
which has attracted the attention of chemists, under the
impression that it is a new species of manna, originates with
an insect of the tribe of <i>Psyllidae</i>, and order
<i>Hemiptera</i>."

1850. Ibid. p. 292::

"Insects which, in the larva state, have the faculty of
elaborating from the juices of the gum-leaves on which they
live a glutinous and saccharine fluid, whereof they construct
for themselves little conical domiciles."

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

"Another variety of manna is the secretion of the pupa of an
insect of the <i>Psylla</i> family