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APPENDIX. 
THE PEPPERMINT TREE. 
Eucalyptus piperita. 
An Eucalyptus ohliquay UHeritier Sert* Angl. p» iS? 
(See Plate annexed.) 
This tree grows to the height of more than an hundred 
feet, and is above thirty feet in circumference. The bark 
is very fmooth, like that of the poplar. The younger 
branches are long and flender, angulated near the top, 
but as they grow older the angles difappear. Their bark is 
fmooth, and of a reddifli brown. The leaves are alternate, 
lanceolate, pointed, very entire, fmooth on both fides, 
and remarkably unequal, or oblique, at their bafe ; the 
veins alternate and not very confpicuous. The whole furface 
of both fides of the leaves is marked with numerous minute 
refinous fpots, in which the eflential oil refides. The foot- 
ftalks are about half an inch in length, round on the under 
fide, angular above, quite fmooth. The flowers we have 
not feen. What Mr. White has fent as the ripe capfules 
of this tree (although not attached to the fpecimens of the 
leaves) grow in cluflers, from fix to eight in each, fefTile 
and 
