"I have also sent in the Albion a box of waratahs, and the earth is secured with the seed."
1802. D. Collins, `Account of New South Wales,' vol. ii. p. 66:
"Bennillong assisted, placing the head of the corpse, near which he stuck a beautiful war-ra-taw."
1830. R. Dawson, `Present State of Australia,' p. 98:
[Description, but not the name.] "A plant called the gigantic lily also flourishes on the tops of these mountains, in all its glory. Its stems, which are jointy, are sometimes as large as a man's wrist, and ten feet high, with a pink and scarlet flower at the top, which when in full blossom (as it then was) is nearly the size of a small spring cabbage."
1830. `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 66:
"Interspersed with that magnificent shrub called warratah or tulip-tree, and its beautiful scarlet flowers."
1857. D. Bunce, `Australasiatic Reminiscences,' p. 44:
"The most common of them was, however, the Telopia [sic] Tasmaniensis, or waratah, or scarlet tulip tree, as it has been occasionally termed by stock-keepers."
1864. J. S. Moore, `Spring Life Lyrics,' p. 115: