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. DESCRIPTION. 



CCCXCV. E. bicqstata Maiden, Blakely and Simmonds. • 



In Trees from other Lauds in New Zealand, Eucalypts, by J. H. Simmonds (1927) p. 133, Botanic Plate, 

 •i - '■;■-■-• ■'■■-:, \'-r\ 48, Figs. A, B, C, F, G. 



Arbor altitudinem usque ad 150 pedes attinens. Cortice laevo atque noimihil glauco ; non autem 

 persistente'sed inaequaliter decidente. Foliis juvenilibus magnis, insigniter glaucis, in diversum positis, 

 sessilibusque. Foliis adultis et lanceolatis et falcatis, saepe viridissimis, nonnunquam longissimis. Umbellis 

 plerumque tripartitis; calycibus sessilibus et rugosis. Fructibus turbinatis vel globcsis; valde bicostatis. 

 Matura cupula amplitudine circiter 12-17 x 14-20 mm. Fructus disco convexo latoque. Ligno pallido, 

 firmo, durabili. 



A Blue Gum, 40-150 feet high ; bark smooth, decorticating annually in thin strips or flakes ; juvenile 

 leaves large, very glaucous, opposite, sessile, ovate-cordate to oblong-lanceolate; adult leaves green/ 

 falcate-lanceolate, 1-7 dm. long; buds sessile, usually in three, warty-glandular, bicostate, subtended 

 by broad, thin, connate, deciduous bracts ; fruit turbinate to globular, with a conspicuous thick disc, 

 12-17 x 14-20 mm. ; timber'pale-coloured,close-grained, hard and durable. 



A moderately large tree with the general appearance of E. globulus and E. Maideni. 

 The bark persists on the lower portion of the trunk of large trees for a short distance, and 

 is usually very rough, dark grey or brown, coarse-fibred, the upper portion and branches 

 smooth, blue-green, shading to grey-green, or rarely of a uniform colour, except perhaps 

 when the old bark peels off during the flowering season. Juvenile leaves similar to 

 those of E. globulus ; adult leaves light to dark-green, pendent, usually falcate-lanceolate, 

 on long petioles 4-28 inches long. See figure of the leaves of E. globulus, Critical Eevision, 

 Part XVIII, Plate 79, figs, la, 2a, 2b. Buds 1-3, usually 3, axillary, glaucous, sessile, 

 on a very short peduncle, or the peduncle totally obliterated, bicostate, or the calyx of 

 the two lateral buds convexed on the outer surface, smooth or usually more or less 

 warty-glandular, 7-13 mm. long, 6-12 mm. broad at the top. Operculum thick, depressed 

 hemispherical to somewhat-cap-shaped, usually very warty, gradually or abruptly 

 pointed or sometimes rostrate, and when the latter much longer than the calyx-tube. 

 Bracts deciduous, but sometimes remaining attached until the buds develop, thin, 

 connate, broad, and obtuse, rarely as long as the calyx-tube. Mueller appears 

 to have been the first to observe the bracts and they are figured by him in the 

 ' ' Eucalyptographia ' ' . 



Fruit turbinate to globular, sessile, bicostate, usually slightly warty between 

 the ribs, 4-5 celled, the rim broad, moderately smooth and thick, sometimes concealing 

 the short, thick valves. The fruits are depicted on Plate 79, figs. 6, 8, 9a, 9&, 9c, 12, all 

 of which are unripe, and therefore immature; dead ripe and mature fruits were not 

 available at the time. 



Timber.— In the southern districts of New South Wales it is known as " Eurabbie" 

 and is a tall tree, 40-80 feet high, with thick straight stems 20-40 feet to the first branch. 

 The timber is pale-coloured, is valued highly and largely used in tail-races for mining 

 purposes, also for bridge decking and girders when well seasoned. It is tough and 

 valuable for coach and cabinet material; it also makes excellent fuel. 



