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GROUP III. E. ROSTRATA. E. S ALIGN A. 
useful range to especially warm and genial localities across Cook Strait. See 
should be obtained from competently selected specimens in the Murray Kiver 
State Forests. To compel an erect and vigorous upward growth, the species 
must he closely planted, either pure or in combination with other trees. 
41. E. SAI.I(INA Smith. 
NATURAL HABITAT, DESCRIPTION, AND USES. 
This species has its native home on the coastal belt and in the gullies of the 
tablelands of New South Wales and southern Queensland. The tree is ot erect 
habit, and under forest conditions in the deep glens rapidly develops a ong 
branchless shaft crowned with abundant handsome foliage. Its dead bar 
everywhere falls away, leaving a smooth greenish-white surface, except at the base 
of tiie stem, where it sometimes persists in the form ot thick, hard, non- rous 
plates or sheets. The leaves early pass the juvenile opposite stage, and thereafter 
may be described as stalked or petiolate, broad lance-shaped, near y equa -si e 
and balanced, dark green and shiny on the upper surface and paler benea 1 , wi 
numerous lateral veins forming oblique or medium angles with the midrib 
The umbel or flower-cluster has a flattened stalk about / 2 in. long, 
carries several flowers on very short stalklets; lid of bud conical with apex slightly 
curved, and base seated just within the rim of the calyx-tube (immature seed- 
cup) ; anthers with longitudinal and parallel openings. Ripe seed-cup about /<un. 
to 5/1 Gin. deep and much narrower at base than at rim, with sta v e Aery s 101 , 
valves while closed forming a sunk pyramid within the rim and when open shg y 
protruding above it. 
For description of the mature wood of E. saligna we cannot do better than 
quote the words of R. T. Baker in his Hardwoods of Australia. 
“The timber is one of our finest hard red-woods, being of medium weight, easy 
to work, durable; it dresses well, and is in general demand throughout the 
trades It is a favourite wood with coachbuilders generally. It is used tor 
felloes more particularly, general coach and wheelwrights’ work, carriage framing, 
building construction, wood blocks, sleepers, shipbui mg c. „ g 
grained, open, takes a good polish and looks well m cabinet work. (Hardwoods 
243.) . ,. 
A general view of available information suggests that quite niature E. saligna 
wire poles may be expected to last 20 years without preservative treatment and 
from 25 to 35 years if effectively treated. . 
CULTIVATION IN NEW ZEALAND. 
The species attains its best in situations where the subsoil is free and moist 
but not wet, the summers warm, and the winters mild. Specimens have already 
grown to a nullable size in New Zealand, as at Pukeroro near ^nnbriflge ^and m 
the Upper Tutaenui near Marton. Vigorous young trees not yet of millable size 
mav be seen in very many North Island plantations. Hardiness, celerity of 
growth? and high merit of limber may all be claimed for E. saligna; and so far 
we have not anywhere seen this tree seriously attacked by insect enemies. Seed 
for future plantings should be obtained either from our own best acclimatized 
specimens or from certified and approved trees where the species is at its optimum 
in New South Wales. 
