(various spellings, Belah, billa, beela, beal), an aboriginal name for the tree Casuarinaglauca. The colonists call the tree Bull-oak, probablyfrom this native name.
1862. H. C. Kendall, `Poems,' p. 18:
«A voice in the beela grows wild in its wail.»
1868. J. A. B., `Meta,' p. 19:
«With heartfelt glee we hail the camp,
And blazing fire of beal.»
[Footnote]: «Aboriginal name of the gum-tree wood.»
1874. W. H. L. Ranken, `Dominion of Australia,' c. vi. p. 110:
«These scrubs . . . sometimes crown the watersheds as `belar.'»