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2. With E. leptophleba, r.v.M. ; {E. drepanophijlla, P.v.M.). 



This species is better known now. See the figures on Plate 48, tlie notes in 

 Part X (Vol. i), and supplementary notes in Part XII (Vol. ii), p. 07. 



Tiie i'ruit oi E. Irptoplilehci, is more cylindrical and rimmed, the foliage is 

 larger, thickc!-, and differently A^eined, the buds arc different, and the anthers are 

 very different. Added to this, the coarse non-bicolor juvenile foliage of E. lepto- 

 phleba is totally different to the foliage of 'E. Clueziana. 



3. With E. siderophloia, Benth. 



Here again we have a red-timbered Ironbark. The juvenile foliage is very 

 broad and thick. The species is "coarse," the colouring of the leaves is the same on 

 both sides, the opercula vei'y acuminate, and the fruits of a different shape. 



A. VJ'ith E. inicrotheca,'F.vM. 



This is a dry country species, with nearly smooth bark, very red timber, pale 

 narrow leaves, with very diiYerent venations and fruits so small that they cannot be 

 confused with those of E. Cldezianci. 



5. E. Naudiniana, V.v.M. 



1 have given notes on the four species that Mueller mentioned, and at the 

 same time I think that the affinities of E. Clueziana are not clear. I place it nearest 

 to E. Naudiniana. 



Both have broadish, petiolate, thin juvenile leaves, with markedly different 

 colours on upper and lower pages, said colours being iisually persistent in the 

 environment which usually occurs in this species. The species are, however, sharply 

 separated by the small fruits of E. Naudiniana and the anthers, Avhich are renan- 

 therous in that species, while the timber of E. Naudiniana is reddish, and that of 

 E. Clueziana is pale-coloured, superficially drying to yellowish-brown. 



G. With E. acmenioides, Schaucr. 



This is another species which, when growing under '■ brush" conditions as do 

 E. Clueziana and E, Naudiniana, remind one of the former. 



The delicate bi-color foliage certainly is much alike in both species, but that 

 of E. acmenioides often becomes narrower and thicker. Tlie colour and properties 

 of the two timbers appear to much resemble each other, but the fruits, thin-rimmed 

 and a good deal alike in the two species, have the imporlant difference that those of 

 PJ. acmenioides have the valves non-exsert. The anthers of E. acmenioides are renan- 

 thcrous. 



7. AVith E. microcorijs, T.v.M. 



It is ptrhaps as close to tliis sp(>cics, mIucIi is anollH^r ihiu-lcavcMl s])ecio>, with 

 niaikedly bi-color juvenile and even matiu'c loaves. 7i'. ?;/ie;'Ofo/-iys is reuantherous 

 and its fruits are different in shape, while its fibrous bark is very different, as is also 

 its timber. 



