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TAB. Il 
CERATOPETALUM gummiferum. 
Three-leaved Red-gum Tree. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
GEN. CHAR. Ca/. 5-partitus, ftaminiferus, perfiftens. 
Petala 5, pinnatifida. -duthere calcarate. Capf. in 
fundo calycis, tecta, bilocularis. 
Ca/. 5-cleft, bearing the ftamina, permanent. Peta/s 
5, pinnatifid. 4uthere withafpur. Cap/. in the bot- 
tom of the calyx, covered, two-celled. 
WHEN a botanift firit enters on the inveftigation 
of fo remote a country as New Holland, he finds himfelf 
as it were in anew world. He can fcarcely meet with 
any certain fixed points from whence to draw his ana- 
logies ; and even thofe that appear moft promifing, are 
frequently in danger of mifleading, inftead of informing 
him. Whole tribes of plants, which at firft fight feem 
familiar to his acquaintance, as occupying links in Na- 
ture’s chain, on which he has been accuftomed to de- 
D pend, 
