APPENDIX. 
THE RED GUM TREE^ 
Eucalyptus resinifera, 
Floribus pedunculatis^ calyptrd conicd acuta. 
(See Plate annexed,) 
This is a very large and lofty tree, much exceeding the 
Englifh Oak in fize. The wood is extremely brittle, and, 
from the large quantity of refinous gum which it contains, 
is of little ufe but for firewood. Of the leaves Mr. White 
has given no account, nor fent any fpecimens. The flowers 
grow in little clufters, or rather umbels, about ten in each, 
and every flower has a proper partial footftalk, about a 
quarter of an inch in length, befides the general one. The 
general footfl:alk is remarkably compreflTed [anceps)^ and 
the partial ones are fo in fome degree. We have perceived 
nothing like braEiecE^ or floral leaves. The flowers appear 
to be yellowifli, and are of a very Angular flrudlure. The 
calyx is hemifpherical, perfectly entire in the margin, and 
afterwards becomes the capfule. On the top of the calyx, 
rather within the margin, ftands a conical pointed calyptra, 
which 
