BY HENRY DEANE AND J. II. MAIDEN. 807 



Because it is usuall}^ rough-barked to the ends of the branches, 

 it sometimes goes by the name of " Woolly-topped Messmate " in 

 the Braidwood district (Monga, &c.). 



Seedling or sucker leaves. — Broadly ovate, somewhat cordate, 

 tending to become unequal, but not always so, and apparently 

 always attenuate, as pointed out by Howitt. Venation well 

 marked and more transverse than in the foliage of the mature 

 tree. 



Leaves of mature frees. — It is a coarse-foliaged tree, by which 

 characteristic alone it can usually be distinguished from those 

 species with which it is usually associated, or with which it is 

 likely to be confused. Its strikingly oblique, unsymmetrical 

 leaves have no doubt given origin to its name. Obliquity is a 

 character of nearly all Eucalypt leaves, but in the sj^ecies under 

 consideration and in IJ. capitellata it is particularly observable. 

 The leaves are sometimes dotted and channelled like E. stellulata 

 (see Part i. p. 598). 



Fruit. — A figure of the usual Victorian form will be found in 

 the ' Eucalj'ptographia;' we give a representation of the fruit as 

 found in the southern mountain ranges in this colony. 



The orifice is sometimes a little contracted, reminding one, in 

 this respect, and in its general shape of the cajisule, of some forms 

 of U. piperita, but it is larger than the fruit of that species. 

 Drying accentuates the contraction of the orifice in both. The 

 two may be at once separated by the venation and shape of the 

 leaves, shape of the buds, &c., but the two species approach one 

 another sometiines xerj closely in the shape of the fruits. 



The fruits in the southern parts of this- colony are sub- 

 cylindrical in shape, while those of the Victorian specimens, 

 figured in the ' Eucalyptographia,' are more hemispherical. 



The fruits of E. gigantea, Hook. f. ('The Botany of the 

 Antarctic A-^oyage;' Hooker, ' Flora Tasmanife,' t. 28) usually 

 referred to E. obliqiia, and doubtless correctl}'^, are more pear- 

 shaped, and with valves more sunk, than we have observed in the 

 New South Wales specimens. 



