The bottle-tree (Delabechea) grew more gregariously than we had ever seen it, in the stony banks of the channel of the torrent from the hills. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
Is not the land of the banana, the palm and the cedar, entitled to recognition, as well as the land of the gidyea, the boree, and the bottle-tree?. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
Thanks for the bottle-tree mention (the link is not quite right, but I appreciate the thought), and I look forward to seeing what else you guys come up with. From Wordnik.com. [The Patio That Jack Built.] Reference
In that of Adelaide we see the Australian bottle-tree, which is a native of this country only. From Wordnik.com. [Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands] Reference
I walked across it, in order to ascertain the presence of water, but found nothing but deep dry hollows surrounded with drooping tea trees, and the black basaltic rocks covered with wild bottle-tree scrub. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
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