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GROUP IV. E. OVATA. E. SIEBERIANA. 
i t i • A ree mav be destined to help largely in 
timber for similar purposes, and odeauate record of tests for 
supplying the demand. We have no ye a y ‘ OU nd. If tests now in 
durability of mature E. ovata posts and poles th ^ to furnish very large 
progress prove satisfactory, this specie ‘ ‘' . , i 
numbers of poles in all cooler parts of the North IsL . 
CULTIVATION IN NEW ZEALAND. 
Amongst the v„ T m.rny loedit.es i„which £ »»«» » ^tTone'd Z 
-The SUte F^ht Splendid 
s ~, B Z A-a *43 M? 
in Tasmania. 
55. E. SIEBERIANA F. von Mueller. 
NATURAL HABITAT, DESCRIPTION, AND USES. 
This is another of the species found on both sides of Bass Strait. It is a 
mountain species. Its range in Tasmania is restricted to a limited^ area m e 
north-east at altitudes of 1,000ft. to 1,500ft. On the mainland it is distributed very 
generally through the mountain forests of Victoria and New South Wales and 
there finds a congenial home on poor rocky country at altitudes of 2,000ft. to 
4 oooft. The tree as seen at its best in these forests has a straight branchless 
stem 40ft. to 60ft. or more long, and crowned with abundant dark green 
foliage The dead hark persists on stem and larger branches; on young 
trees it is scaly, on old ones sub-fibrous, thick, firm, and deeply furrowed, 
the general colouring being dark grey modified by warm brown in the 
newly opened furrows. Leaves in the juvenile stage already stalked, 
broad, unbalanced, suspended edgewise to the light, and together with 
twigs usually covered with a slight glaucous bloom; those of the adult tree with 
lateral veins at very acute angles to the midrib, long, vertically suspended, and of 
same dark shiny green on the two surfaces. Umbel with several flowers; stalk 
flattened, stalklets angular; lid of bud short and blunt, and bud as a whole club- 
shaped; anthers with divergent connected openings. Ripe seed-cup %in. long by 
5 / 16 in. wide, pear-shaped, rim flat, or countersunk with edge then sharp; open 
valves below rim. Mature wood pale, fissile, of high merit for work in dry 
situations, reputation for durability in contact with the ground conflicting. 
CULTIVATION IN NEW ZEALAND. 
In the Rotorua region, 1,000ft. or more above sea level, E. Sieberiana has 
grown very vigorously and reached millable dimensions in thirty years. Contrary 
to what might have been expected with a mountain species, it has also flourished 
on North Island lowlands and shown good resistance to strong saline winds. It 
has been barred from a wider range by extreme sensitiveness of the seedlings to 
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