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E. obliqua L'Herit. 



A medium-sized tree, much disposed to lateral branching, particularly in 



Tasmania, where the type comes from. It is rough-barked to the ends of the branches, 



the bark of the trunk and branches is decidedly fibrous, but the fibres are not so clean 



and tenacious as those of the true Stringybarks, and the bark is not so suitable for 



roofing. It and E. Muelleriana are more closely related to each other than to the 



others. 



E. umbra R. T. Baker. 



" Stringybark." This Stringybark is closely related to E. acmenioides, and 

 both are known as White Mahogany (in contradistinction to E. resinifera, the Eed 

 Mahogany, with red timber). 



Mallee-UJce or dwarf species : — 



E. alpina Lindl. 

 This local species is allied to the Stringybarks. and Mr. A. J. Campbell says 

 that local residents in the Grampians look upon it as a dwarf Stringybark. 



Under cultivation in the Centennial Park it attained the height of about 20 feet, 

 with gnarled, spreading branches, and the trunk and branches covered with soft, 

 stringy bark. 



E. Camfieldi Maiden. 



A low branching shrub or stunted tree, almost Malleedike, and under 12 feet 

 in height. Bark scaly-fibrous or fibrous, flatfish, tough — a Stringybark. 



E. LIGUSTRINA DC. 



A small species, with rather flat, stringy bark, usually forming Mallee-like clumps 

 from 3-12 feet high ; when solitary may attain a height of 15 feet. 



5. SCHIZOPHLOI.E (Ironbarks). 



This is a classification of 1859, but, as usual, as regards the classification, Mueller 

 did not improve on it in the "Eucalyptographia" in 1884, by means of his examples. 

 On that occasion he only included three true Ironbarks, viz., crebra, siderophloia and 

 m 'lanophloia. We have already seen that he omitted the two most characteristic 



tea, viz.. paniculate and sideroxylon, because he thought that they included smooth- 

 barked species (fasciculosa and leucoxylon). 



We inii-t beware of false Ironbarks. For example, E. stellulaia and E. cornuta 

 may often be seen with a large amount of dark-coloured, indurated hark on the trunk. 



1 i called [ronbark oJ Tasmania (/-.'. Sieberiana) native also of eastern Victoria and 

 Ne • 3 rath Wales, has a furrowed hark remarkably like [ronbark al a little distance, 

 but much softer than thai of the true Ironbark. Mueller, however, looked upon 

 /.'. Sieberiana aa an [ronbark in 1884, and even included E. Cloeziana and a couple of 

 Bloodwoods {E. ficifolia and E, calophylla). 



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