ascertain, efpecially when the numbers o f its botanical productions
are fo highly boafted. Indignant at the concealment, I
begin my lift. 1
T h e genus o f Bankjia opens the Florulci', under this are feven
fpecies:
Bankjia ferrata, White, p. 221. tab. 18. 19. 20; in which are
expreiled bud, flower, and fruit.
Pyriformis, White, tab. 21.
Gibbofa, White, tab. 22. and another fpecies, in the
fame plate, unafcertained.
T h is genus was firft named by John Reinhold Forjler, in his
genera, in honor of Sir Jofeph Banks.
T o thefe I add the three following :
Bankjia dentata, Linn. Suppl. 127.
Ericafolia, Linn. Suppl. so-]. .
Integrifolia, Linn. Suppl. 127.
Cafuarina StriSla, Hort. Kew. iii. 330.
Torulofa, Hort. Kew. iii. 320.,
T h e yellow gum plant o f Phillip, p. 60. tab. 3, grows in form
o f a yucca-, has a Hern'of confiderable thicknefs, fcaled regula
r ly ; the leaves are very long, out o f their middle rifes the
fructification, on a flender item, twelve or fourteen feet high ;
o f this the natives fbmetimes make fpears. The gum, or rather
refin, is dug from under the roots, and is poflibly what Tafman
calls Gum Lac of the Ground; it alfo exudes from the body-both
voluntarily and on incifion. Mr. White, p. 235, fays it may vie
in its properties with the moft fragrant balfams, and when burnt
finells like balfam o f Tolu, or Benzoin. It is a good pectoral medicine,
dicifie, and very balfamic. It is not foluble in water, but readily
in fpirits o f wine. T he genus is not afcertained.
T h e Peppermint Tree, the fnppofed Lucaliptus obliqua of
L’Heretier, Sert. Angl. p. 18, grows to the height o f a. hundred
feet, and thirty in girth* ; the leaves are lanceolate and pointed,
marked with .numerous refinous fpots, in which the effen-tial oil
refides ;-the berries grow in clufters, and are open at top. The oil
extracted from the leaves is fo like that which is drawn from our
peppermint, that Mr. White called the tree by that name. The
oil has been proved to be more efficacious than any other medicine
for. removing colicky complaints.
T h e Tea Tree o f the fame author, p. 229. tab. 24, is o f the
genus of Melaleuca. Mr. White fuppofes it to be the fame with
the Camunium o f Rumph. Amboin. v. p. 29. tab. 18, which grows
fn China and Amboina.
T h e Sweet Tea is another Ihrub; both make a tea not un-
pleafant, and this is faid to be a good antifcorbutic.
T h e Red Gum Tree, or Lucaliptus Rejinifera, White, p. 231.
tab. 23; grows to the fize o f our large ftoaks; the wood is brittle,
and good for nothing but fu e l; it contains a vaft quantity o f red
gum, like the gum Kino. Some, of our voyagers compare it to
gum dragon. A Angle tree, on incifion, will yield fixty gallons.
It diffolves almoft entirely in fpirits o f wine, and gives them a
red color. In dyfenteries (which our conv.idts were much af-
flidted with) it was found full as efficacious as the gum Kim,
Mr. Hazvkfworth, iii. p. 569, has favored us with the fecret,
that the Hibifcus Biliaceus grows here. It is the Mohoe, or bark
tree o f the Weji Indies; Sloane, Jam. i. p. 213. tab. 134. fig. 4;
* White, p.. 206, tab. 23,
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