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DESCRIPTION. 



CXXVII. E. saligna Smith. 



In Trans. Linn. Soc. iii, 285 (1797). 



Following is the original description : — 



Opereulo conico acuto calyceque anguloso subaneipiti, capitulis lateralibus solitariis, fructu turbinate, 

 foliis lineari-lanceolatis. 



The leaves are narrower and hss coriaceous than in most of the species. The little heads of flowers 

 grown on shortish flower stalks, one from the bosom of each leaf. The flowers are smaller than in any of 

 the others, their covers acute, the length of the calyx. Fruit turbinate with a slightly curved margin, 

 and crowned with the pyramidal permanent base of the style. 



It was then described by Bentham, B.F1. iii, 245, and subsequently by 

 Mueller in the " Euoalyptographia." It was described in my "Forest Flora of 

 New South Wales," i, 75. Much of what is (herein stated as regards " Flooded 

 Gum" refers to var. pallidivalvis Baker and Smith (see below). The variety 

 paroiflora Deane and Maiden, was subsequently described by me under the name 

 E. Deanei. 



■ I have given so ample an account of E. saligna in my " Forest Flora " that 

 it seems unnecessary to repeat many of the details. 



E. saligna is a smooth-barked species, with more or less rough, scaly, or 

 sub-fibrous bark at the butt. Sometimes the trunk is practically smooth, forming a 

 shaft, white in colour or with a bluish cast. 



Its timber is red, and its erect and unhindered method of growth, the 

 result of favourable vegetative conditions, produces timber remarkably uniform 

 in character, and largely free from the interlocked and twisted characters which are 

 frequently observed in its congeners, particularly those which grow in poor soils 

 and exposed situations. 



It is impossible to exhaustively study E. saligna apart from E. botryoides, 

 and therefore I venture to invite my readers' attention to the comparative state- 

 ment concerning them given above (p. 52). 



RANGE. 



Thia i^ a tree of the coastal bell and -allies of the tablelands, both of New 

 South W'ahs and Queensland. I do not know of its occurrence further south than 

 Bateman's Bay. Its range in Queensland requires investigation. 



