Eucalyptus

a genus of trees, mostly natives of Australia, and remarkable for their gigantic size, some of them attaining the height of 480 or 500 feet. In the Australian colonies they are known by the name of gum trees, from the gum which exudes from their trunks; and some of them have also such names as “stringy bark,” ‘iron bark,” ete. The wood is excellent for ship building and such purposes. The tree has been introduced in California Euchariys, a name for the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, in reference to the ble ing and thanksgiving which accompany it.