T H E P E P P E R M I N T T R E E .
£j EuGAIiYPTTj,S PIPERITA.
An Eucalyptus obliqua, UHeritier Serf. Ahgl. p. 18 ?
j . (See Plate-annexed.) ,
This5 tree grows to the height of more than an hundred
feeti:’ and is abovekhirty feet in* circuinference. The bark
is very fmooth, like that - of the poplar. The ^youngdr
branches are ulbng ,and ilender, angulated near the top,
But -as-they- grow older the angles difappear. Their- bark is
fmooth, and of a reddifh brown. The leaves are 1 alternate,
lanceolate, pointed, very .entire, fmooth oh both fifles,
and remarkably unequal, or oblique, at their bafe;' the
veins alternate and not very confpieuous. The whole furface
of both fides of the leaves is marked with numerous"minute
refinous fpots; in which the elfential 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. W h i t e has fent as the ripe capfules
of this tree (although not attached to the fpecimens' of the
leaves) grow in clutters, from fix to eight in e^ch, feffile
and