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GROUP III. E. HAEMASTOMA. E. HEMIPHLOIA. 
down the tree, and persistent to the small branches. The living bark where it 
touches the sapwood is often stained with a yellow colouring. This last character 
appears in a still more obvious degree in E. Muelleriana. Determination of the 
stringybarks is often very difficult, and the presence or absence of a yellow stain in 
the living bark will be to the careful student a welcome addition to other specific 
tests. 
29. E. HAEMASTOMA Smith. 
NATURAL HABITAT, DESCRIPTION, AND USES. 
Tree widely distributed in eastern New South Wales and found also in 
southern Queensland. Rarely of large size; often of drooping and scrambling 
habit. The dead bark falls away in non-fibrous ribbons and flakes, leaving the 
surface of living bark white, smooth, and sometimes marked 01 sciibbled with fine 
irregular lines. Juvenile leaves very early stalked, rather broad, and vertically 
suspended; those of adult trees up to Gin. long, thick, unbalanced, and of same 
green on the two surfaces. Umbel many-flowered; stalk /sin. to Min. long, 
stalklets 3 / 1 6in.; lid of bud very short; anthers with divergent united openings. 
Ripe seed-cup in normal variety up to Min. deep and Min. wide, m variety 
micrantha as small as 3/16in. wide; rim of cup slightly rising or domed, usually dull 
blood-coloured or brick-red. Mature wood reddish, soft for a eucalypt, and 
not reputed to be very durable. 
CULTIVATION IN NEW ZEALAND. 
Vigorous specimens of E. haemastoma may be seen in several New Zealand 
plantations, but they are nowhere of sufficient size and promise to warrant 
cultivation of the species for timber production. 
The student may find it helpful to remember that the specific name 
haemastoma is from the Greek liaima blood and stoma mouth, and was suggested 
by the ruddy colouring round the rim or lip of the seed-cup. A few other species 
have the same character, but in a less marked degree. 
30. E. HEMIPHLOIA F. von Mueller. 
NATURAL HABITAT, DESCRIPTION, AND USES. 
This species is a constituent of the forest flora in Victoria, New South Wales, 
and Southern Queensland, its lateral range extending from the seaboard over the 
eastern slopes of the Dividing Range. Within this great region it can make a home 
on any kind of land that is neither wet nor extremely dry. The trees, as the 
traveller in Australia usually SeeS ^ ^ _ • it. ^ l • jL 
are of little value except for fencing and fuel. But m sheltered situations they 
reach heights up to about 80ft. and diameters of bole up to 2ft or 2ft. 6m. The 
word hemiphloia means half-barked, and refers to the habit of the tree m shedding 
its dead bark from the branches and retaining it on the stem or on part ot the 
stem. The persistent dead bark is of the “box” type sub-fibrous and flaky 
Juvenile leaves broad, oval, already stalked; those of adult trees oval to broad 
lance-shaped, or sometimes very narrow, up to 5m. long, dull green on both 
