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GROUP III. E. CAPITELLATA. E. EUGENIOIDES. 
(peduncle) ; flowers sessile or on extremely short stalklets (pedicels) and up to 
ten or eleven in number; bud coarse, angular, with short pointed lid (operculum) ; 
anthers with divergent openings. Hipe seed-cup often remarkable for being much 
broader than it is deep, its appearance suggesting the idea of a plastic sphere that 
has been pressed into the shape of a thick disk; lateral diameters up to /^in. 
common; rim broad and convex; points of valves when open just below or a little 
above the rim. As the sessile fruits mature they press tightly against each other 
and become more or less flattened at the sides by the pressure. Specific name 
suggested by the compact and rounded form of the fruit cluster. The mature 
wood has a good reputation for durability, and is clean and sound when sawn into 
boards and scantling. 
CULTIVATION IN NEW ZEALAND. 
In rate of growth, E. capitellata holds medium rank amongst timber-yielders, 
and should never be planted in association with any of the very rapid growers. 
In New Zealand its profitable range will probably be restricted to warm localities 
north of the Waikato river. 
E. capitellata was formerly given a wider definition and a much more 
extended range than at present. It included a seaboard species of small 
dimensions and little value subsequently named by Maiden E. Cawifieldi, and a 
timber yielding tree named by JMaiden and Uambage together E. JBlajclandi in 
honour of Gregory Blaxland, leader of the first party to cross the Blue Mountains. 
E. Blacclandi flourishes at various altitudes up to 2,000ft. or 3,000ft. Its optimum 
is found on the uplands of New South Wales and \ ictoria, with a range extending 
from New England in the north to the border of South Australia. For 
cultivation in New Zealand E. Blacclandi may be a much better adapted and more 
valuable tree than its congener. No time should be lost, therefore, in obtaining 
seed from certified and approved trees in cool parts of the natural habitat and in 
making experimental plantings in suitable parts of our own country. The 
botanical history of E. capitellata shows how extremely difficult it is separately to 
define closely related species, and how vitally important it is in propagating for 
economic purposes to breed always from right parent trees. 
28. E. EUGENIOIDES Sieber. 
NATURAL HABITAT, DESCRIPTION, AND USES. 
This is a familiar species in eastern Australia, being extensively distributed 
in New South Wales and southern Queensland, and to a small extent m north¬ 
eastern Victoria. From east to west its range includes genial lowlands near the 
seaboard; temperate foothills and tablelands; and mountain valleys and ridges over 
3,000ft. above sea level, where the trees are subject in winter to severe frosts and 
occasional falls of snow. In open situations the tree makes a short bole with 
branches spreading outward and upward and clothed at their extremities with tutts 
of leaves; surrounded by other trees, it readily sheds its side branches and forms 
a tall straight shaft crowned with a comparatively small amount of foliage. It is 
a pole-timber tree rather than a forest giant, and may be regarded as well grown 
when its total height is 80ft. to 100ft. and the diameter of its bole 1ft. 6m to At. 
It is one of the true stringybarks and continuously carries a fibrous coating oi 
