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E. Benthami Maiden and Cambage. 



A large White Gum, up to 60 or 100 feet and diameter of 6 feet, with more or 



less rough, flaky bark at the butt. Such rough bark may be almost wholly absent, 



or sometimes extending to the first fork, but essentially it is a Gum, and can be readily 



picked out as such along the Nepean Valley, New South Wales. The rough bark is 



rather hard, but rarely almost fibrous, and terminating in short ribbons. The presence 



of rough bark, the result of injury (ringbarking in this case) may be very marked in 

 this species, as will be shown in a photograph to be published later. 



E. cordata Labill. 

 Usually a tree with glaucous foliage, but said to exceptionally attain a large 

 size. Bark smooth. Mr. L. Bodway, of Hobart, writes to me that at Cape Frederick 

 Henry, Brown Mountain, and Ridgeway it is a scrambling to semi-erect shrub, of about 

 4-5 feet. In the south-western gully at Chimney Pot Hill (close to Ridgeway) it is 

 a small tree up to say 20 feet high. At Uxbridge he has seen trees of it approximating 

 100 feet, and Mr. Fen ton, of that town, an experienced timbeivcutter, brought him a 

 specimen in typical foliage and flower from a tree he said was 200 feet high with a clean 

 'branchless bole for 100 feet, and with timber light-yellow ochre in colour. 



E. Dunnii Maiden. 

 An erect species, attaining a very great size. A White Gum with more or less 

 fibrous-flaky bark at butt. Resembling E. saligna in habit a good deal. 



E. C4LOBULUS Labill. 

 A lofty Gum, called Blue Gum because of its glaucousness, with more or less 

 deciduous ribbony bark. 



E. GONIOCALYX F.V.M. 



A tall tree, bark smoothish, but with ribbons and more or less roughish and 



even flaky bark at butt. 



E. linearis Dehnh. 



A Gum tree of medium size, say up to 100 feet or less, clean-looking tree with 



clean-looking branches and light tops of narrow leaves. Foliage erect, not pendulous. 



E. Maldeni F.v.M. 

 A tall Gum, called Blue Gum because of its glaucousness, with more or less 

 deciduous ribbony bark. It is closely related to E. globulus. 



E. Muelleri T. B. Moore. 

 A tall, erect tree, attaining 200 feet. Bark smooth, blotched with red brown, 

 scaly at base, smooth above, often glaucous. 



E. nitens Maiden. 

 This tree, near Bombala, was measured (by W. Baeuerlen in 1889) by tape 3 feet 

 above the ground and found to be 50 feet in circumference. It is a very large tree, 

 growing to a height of 200-300 feet. It is a Gum with a good deal of deciduous bark 

 hanging in strips, and more or less rough at the butt, the upper portion, which usually 

 includes nearly the whole of the trunk, smooth and even shining. 



