GROUP III. E. BOTRYOIDES. E. CAPITELLATA. 
preference appears to be for good alluvial areas. On the whole we may regard it 
as a species Requiring a free subsoil, a medium range of temperatures, and a 
generous rainfall. 
The specific name was given in honour of Joseph Bosisto, one of the early 
promoters of the Eucalyptus oil industry. 
26. E. BOTRYOIDES Smith. 
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NATURAL HABITAT, DESCRIPTION, AND USES. 
'<■ The species is indigenous to coastal areas of Victoria, New South Wales, 
and Queensland. The tree usually carries a heavy mass of dark-green foliage; 
sometimes it has a tendency to become bent or inclined to one side, but un er 
forest conditions it will develop a long straight bole with a diameter up to lit. 6in. 
or 2ft. For a few years the upper part of the stem may remain smooth, but as 
the tree gains age both stem and larger branches become covered permanently 
with a thick mass of deeply furrowed sub-fibrous dead bark. The leaves in the 
juvenile stage and subsequently are of the nearly equal-sided or balanced type, 
with upper surface dark green and shiny and under surface dull. I lie o lateial 
veins are rather wide apart and make with the midrib angles of oa ei 4 o . The 
umbel has a flattened stalk or peduncle with an indefinite number of sessile 
flowers; bud slightly angular with short pointed lid; anthers with longitudinal and 
nearly parallel openings. Ripe seed-cup /4in. to nearly / 2 in. deep and usually 
angular at the sessile base. A. full umbel of mature fruits, we may suppose, 
suggested to the founder of the species the idea of a cluster of berries; hence the 
specific name, which means “grape-bunch-like”. The resemblance to grapes is 
rather remote, but the suggestion is a slight aid to identification. 
The mature wood from well-grown trees is red, hard, heavy, and very durable 
in any situation, reliable reports from Australia stating that in fence posts the 
heartwood from quite mature trees will easily last thirty years. 
CULTIVATION IN NEW ZEALAND. 
Ideal conditions for E. botryoides are found at low altitudes a little removed 
from our North Island sea coasts; but the species is very hardy, and is represented 
by vigorous specimens as far inland as Cambridge and Rotorua, and as far 
south as Charteris Bay near Lyttelton. Seed should be obtained from best 
acclimatized trees through the Forest Service. E. botryoides makes very 
ornamental single specimens, and when cut back readily sprouts again. 
27. E. CAPITELLATA Smith. 
NATURAL HABITAT, DESCRIPTION, AND USES. 
The species is indigenous to lowlands and upland valleys in New South 
Wales. The tree usually carries a heavy and dense mass of foliage. Dead bark 
stringy and persistent from ground to small branches. Leaves in juvenile stage 
sessile or almost stalkless, round or heart-shaped, often studded with minute hairs; 
on adult tree stalked or petiolate, thick, broad, unbalanced, and of about the 
same palish green on the two surfaces. Umbel on compressed or flattened stalk 
