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The large yellow cone-shaped flower of the Banksia, containing a quantity of honey, which the natives are fond of sucking. Hence the tree has obtained the name of the honeysuckle tree. One flower contains at the proper season more than a tablespoonful...

A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the ... - Page 69
by George Fletcher Moore - 1842 - 171 pages
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Diary of Ten Years Eventful Life of an Early Settler in Western Australia ...

George Fletcher Moore - Aboriginal Australians - 1884 - 588 pages

...It is not found to the west of the hills. Man-gat, .«. — Aunt ; mother-in-law. Man-gyt, .«. — The large yellow cone-shaped flower of the Banksia,...honey. Birds, ants, and flies consume it. Man-gyt-dju, .1. — The hairy petals of the Man-gyt. Miinjang, a — Harmless. Manjiral, o. — Fat. Mannangur...

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