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196 branches are omewhat crooked, and have towards their extremity alternate leaves, lightly bent, and about ix inches in length, and one-half in breadth.

The flowers are olitary, and grow from the bae of the talk of the leaf.

The calix is haped like an inverted urn, and conits, like that of the other genera of the ame tribe, of a ingle leaf, which falls off as oon as the tamina are completely formed.

It has no corolla.

The tamina are numerous and attached to the ides of the receptacle.

The tyle is imple and divided at its bae into four partitions. It has only one tigma.

The capule is open at the top, and generally divided into four partitions, which contain a number of angular eeds; at the bae it has four angles, two of which project more than the ret. It is haped like a button; on which account I have denominated this tree eucalyptus globulus.

Fig. 1. Branch of the eucalyptus globulus.

Fig. 2. Flower.

Fig. 3. Fruit.

Fig. 4. Calix.

The bark, leaves and fruit of this tree are of an