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GROUP HI. E. TERETICORNIS. 
44. E. TERETICORNIS Smith. 
NATURAL HABITAT, DESCRIPTION, AND USES. 
This species, it is said, formerly grew in great abundance and to very large 
dimensions on good lowland country in Gippsland. In less majestic forms na uie 
gave it a wide distribution in other parts of Victoria. For its present optimum we 
are referred to north-eastern New South Wales and southern Queensland E 
tereticornis is a closely similar tree to E. rostrata, but less drooping m the habit 
of its branchlets and foliage. The dead bark of both is non-fibrous and falls away 
in sheets or large scales, or sometimes persists for a few teet near the groun . 
Both species have stalked juvenile leaves, those of E. tereticornis being usually 
broad and sometimes orbicular; those of E. rostrata usually narrow. I he adult 
tree leaves of both are long, falcate, and of a dull green hue on the two sui faces. 
Xn E. rostrata, as we have seen, all the parts of the umbel aie small and delicatelv 
formed; in E. tereticornis they are closely similar in form and arrangement but 
larger and coarser. Tereticornis means round-horned and was given as specific 
name to this tree because its buds are horn-shaped, either blunt conical or long and 
pointed. Several other eucalypts have horn-shaped buds; but the character serves 
here to distinguish two trees that are very closely related. The anthers of both 
species open with longitudinal and nearly parallel slits. The ripe seed-cups of both 
have rising rims and valves that when open strongly protrude. 
The mature wood of E. tereticornis is of a deep red colour and very durable in 
any situation. It is so much like that of E. rostrata that the two cannot be easily 
distinguished. 
CULTIVATION IN NEW ZEALAND. 
Further comparing the two trees as so far tested in New Zealand, general 
preference must be given to E. rostrata, for the reason that it appears to surpass 
E. tereticornis both in climatic range and in yield of timber. 
