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GROUP I. E. GOMPHOCEPHALA. 
like an urn with wide bulge in middle, narrow neck, and rim usually but not 
always recurved outward. Mature wood dark red, exceedingly resistant to decay 
in contact with the ground or in water; faulty for fine construction work on 
account of gum (kino) veins. 
The specific name corymbosa refers to the habit of the tree in producing its 
flowers in compound clusters that are approximately even at the summit liEe a 
corymb. Used as a noun in the plural (corymbosae) it is now applied by botanists 
to a group of similar species including E. ficifolia and E. calophylla. By wood¬ 
men some of these species are called bloodwoods on account of the copious blood- 
coloured kino that exudes from their stems and large branches. 
CULTIVATION IN NEW ZEALAND. 
All the corymbosae are warm country species. In New Zealand their range 
will be restricted to those genial localities where the winters pass almost entirely 
without frost. One specimen of E. corymbosa has grown to a fair size and main¬ 
tained good health on the Auckland Isthmus. Northward from that zone this 
beautiful species should do well in carefully selected areas. Success in experiment 
will be more certainly assured if steps be taken to obtain seed from vigorous trees 
in cool parts of the natural habitat, preferably in New South Wales. 
5. E. GOMPHOCEPHALA A. P. de Candolle. 
NATURAL HABITAT, DESCRIPTION, AND USES. 
Native habitat on limestone country near sea coast in south Western 
Australia, latitude 32 to 33. Tree there grows to millable size. Dead hark per¬ 
sistent on stem and branches, sub-fibrous, matted, and even on surface. Juvenile 
and adult tree leaves both stalked or petiolate, the former broad and trowel-shaped, 
the latter narrower and up to 7in. long. Flowers four to seven in umbel set 
down quite close on a flat strap-like peduncle. Lid of bud domed or low conical, 
when mature exceeding in diameter rim of unripe seed-cup, and presenting an 
appearance like a button-mushroom or like a thick peg with large domed 
head; specific name suggested by ths peg-like appearance of the bud; 
anthers with longitudinal and nearly parallel openings. Ripe seed-cup 
up to 94in. deep by !4in. to %in. wide, bell-shaped; valves 3 or 4, 
protruding, claw-like. Mature wood pale-coloured, close-grained, interlocked, 
heavy, durable in any situation. 
CULTIVATION IN NEW ZEALAND. 
A species of such high merit should without further delay receive competent 
trial in this country; and, reasoning from natural habitat, would be most likely to 
succeed on limestone formation in a frostless seaboard situation, with some shelter 
from saline winds. Seed should be obtained through the Forest Service of 
Western Australia. Visitors to the One Tree Hill Domain, Auckland, may see 
a vigorous specimen of E. gomphocephala in a row of eucalypts growing on the 
southern boundary, near the Newmarket-Onehunga road. 
