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GROUP VI. E. URNIGERA. 
deep shiny green on both surfaces. Umbel normally 3-flowered; stalk slender and 
about 3 / 4 m long, stalklets 3/16m.; lid of bud cap-like with low central projection; 
anthers with longitudinal and nearly parallel openings. Ripe seed-cup %in. long 
by fem. or more wide, contracted towards orifice and usually recurved at the rim- 
valves deeply placed and wholly below the rim. The specific name was suggested 
by the distinctly urn-like shape of the seed-cup. It is appropriate; but several 
other eucalypts have urn-shaped fruits, and might almost equally well have 
claimed the epithet. The mature wood of E. urnigera is pale in colour, wavy in 
grain, and adapted lor use in cabinet work. Of its behaviour in contact with the 
ground we have no record. 
CULTIVATION IN NEW ZEALAND. 
The species is not commended as a timber yielder, but as an addition to our 
list of ornamental shelter trees for colder parts of the country. Beautiful 
specimens now growing in Southland would supply seed for future propagation. 
In middle and northern New Zealand this and other sub-alpine species should be 
tested at altitudes up to and over 3,000ft. 
There has been found in several New Zealand localities a eucalypt that may 
possibly be a hybrid between E. urnigera and E. globulus. Two of the specimens, 
one in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens and one at Teddington on Banks 
Peninsula, grew to large dimensions. Dead bark deciduous. Juvenile leaves 
sessile. Adult tree leaves stalked, deep green, with oil dots numerous and 
remarkably pellucid. Umbel 3-flowered; buds and fruits very strongly biangular. 
Ripe seed-cup about 34in. in depth and width; orifice crater-like with valves at 
bottom of depression. Seed supposed to have come from Tasmania, but parent 
tree or trees not since located. Named E. biangularis and published in Critical 
Revision. Should be given trial in parks and gardens where there are severely cold 
winters. 
APPENDIX TO GROUP VI. 
E. Gunnii. — Some botanists are of opinion that this species is indigenous exclu¬ 
sively to Tasmania. On this view the mainland trees hitherto included in it 
are specifically distinct and should be separately named and described. 
E. Muelleri. — It is now understood that this name will be suppressed in favour of 
E. Johnstoni. The climatic range for E. Muelleri in New Zealand is not 
yet known. 
