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GROUP IV. E. OBLIQUA. 
trees on the mountains of Victoria or New South Wales, and in making 
experimental plantings 1,000ft. to 2,000ft. above sea level in the North Island 
and on low foothills in the South Island. 
It is interesting to us in New Zealand to learn that this species has alieady 
found favour and is being extensively planted in South Africa. J. H. Maiden, 
who for many years acted as honorary purchaser of Australian tree seeds for the 
South African forestry services, states at page 404 Vol. vii. of his Forest Flora 
that during recent years far more seed of E. Maideni has been supplied to that 
country than of any other two species of Eucalyptus. Official reports to hand 
show that the species is doing well in several localities and is regarded with 
much appreciation by experts in tree culture. The species should find equally 
congenial conditions in New Zealand. 
The specific name was given in honour of the distinguished botanist J. H. 
Maiden. 
52. E. OBLIQUA L’H&ritier. 
NATURAL HABITAT, DESCRIPTION, AND USES. 
This is one of the most interesting and important in the whole long list of 
the eucalypts It has smvived and maintained its botanical identity on both sides 
of Bass Strait through the long period that has elapsed since Tasmania was lifted 
from the Australian Mainland. It has flourished m pure and mixed forests 
w’te it hJcltobSlS to altitudes of 2,000ft. to 1 , 000 ft, and 
extended northward, as far“ Tlwlea”, o“ y'oung 
persistent fibrous coating all 1 , f tb e q u j t tree, but otherwise 
plants and stump-sprouts are broader tothose^nte adult ^ and very 
the two forms axe not^ very dissi V • ^ midrib . Those J the adu lt tree are 
unequal-sided, with the stalk o i nnhilnnced edgewise or vertically 
4in. to 6in. long, curved to the weaker sid® el with numer ous 
suspended and of the same iich gree^g ^ %in . M of bud low and bud as 
!° whole leif mature * p^How ^ clumped; -thers with divergent 
t“h P . p“ee'“ert off the e.lyx end or an egg with part of one 
end cut away. 
The MATURE WOOD is of a P ale '°T is C °’°i d ’ that^stout^’poSs split Tut of 
sawing into boards and scantling. or nlOT e. The species, though 
thoroughly mature trees will last J at its best in the south-eastern 
indigenous to both Australia an L ’ large an d the natural crop 
portion of the latter country where the tiees weie^ ^ supplies before 
so heavy that sawmills at wor ot nian Forestry”, states that E. obliqua 
