, Smith] is one of the
numerous `peppermints' of New South Wales and Victoria,
and is noteworthy as being the first eucalypt so called,
at any rate in print."

<hw>Pepper, Native</hw>, i.q. <i>Climbing Pepper</i>
(see above), <i>Piper Novae-Hollandiae</i>, Miq.

1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 198:

"`Native Pepper.' An excellent tonic to the mucous
membrane. . . . One of the largest native creepers,
the root being at times from six inches to a foot in diameter.
The plant climbs like ivy to the tops of the tallest trees,
and when full-grown weighs many tons, so that a good supply
of the drug is readily obtainable."

<hw>Pepper-tree</hw>, <i>n</i>. The name is given to two
trees, neither of which are the true pepper of commerce
(<i>Piper</i>). They are--

(1) <i>Schinus molle</i>, which is a native of South America,
of the Cashew family, and is largely cultivated for ornament
and shade in California, and in the suburbs and public parks
and gardens of all Australian towns where it has been
naturalised. It is a very fast growing evergreen, with
feathery leaves like a small palm or fern, drooping like a
weeping willow. It flowers continuously, irrespective of
season, and bears a cluster of red-berries or drupes, strongly
pungent,-whence its name.

(2) The other tree is indigenous in Australia and Tasmania; it
is <i>Drimys aromatica</i>, F. v. M., formerly called
<i>Tasmania aromatica</i>, R. Br., <i>N.O. Magnoliaceae</i>.
In New Zealand the name is applied to <i>Drimys</i> /corr./
<i>axillaris</i>, Forst. (Maori, <i>Horopito</i>; q.v.).

1830. `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 65:

"A thick grove of the pepper-shrub, <i>Tasmania fragrans</i> of
Smith. It grows in a close thicket to the height of from six
to ten feet. When in blossom, in the spring months of November
or December, the farina of the flower is so pungent, especially
if shaken about by the feet of horses or cattle, that it is
necessary to hold a handkerchief to the nose in order to avoid
continual sneezing."

1839. T. L. Mitchell, `Three Expeditions into the Interior
of Eastern Australia,' vol. ii. p. 280:

"We also found the aromatic tree, <i>Tasmania aromatica</i>.
. . . The leaves and bark of this tree have a hot, biting,
cinnamon-like taste, on which account it is vulgarly called
the pepper-tree."

1880. Mrs. Meredith, `Tasmanian Friends and Foes,' p. 231:

"The handsome red-stemmed shrub known as native pepper. . .