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313 (with anIllustration): The Blackboy trees are a species of grass-tree orXanthorrhoea, exuding a gummy substance used by theblacks for fastening glass and quartz-barbs to their spears. One genus, with only one species, thePentailed-Phalanger, Distaechurus pennatus,Peters, is confined to New Guinea. Paterson, `Man from Snowy River,' p. 9: We learned that a koala or native bear (Phascolarctuscinereus) was sitting on a tree near the but of ashepherd .

Hochstetter, `New Zealand,' p. Kingsley, `Geoffrey Hamlyn,' c. ), so calledfrom the whiteness of the trunk and the silvery green ofthe foliage. Illawarra A.