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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-like or divarf 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 Mallee-like, 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. SCHIZOPHLOLE (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 

 ■mslanophloia. We have already seen that he omitted the two most characteristic 

 ones, viz., paniculata and sideroxylon, because he thought that they included smooth- 

 barked species (fasciculosa and leucoxylon). 



We must beware of false Ironbarks. For example, E. stellulata and E. comuta 

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

 The so-called Ironbark of Tasmania (E. Sieberiana) native also of eastern Victoria and 

 New South Wales, has a furrowed bark remarkably like Ironbark at a little distance, 

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

 E. Sieberiana as an Ironbark in 1884, and even included E. Cloeziana and a couple of 

 Bloodwoods (E. ficifolia and E. calophylla). 



