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Mueller only saw unripe fruits, and I can supplement the description in this 

 and other respects, as follows : — 



Fruits nearly hemispherical in shape, 1 cm. in diameter, surface usually white-dotted, rim very 

 thin, and the valves well exsert. 



Juvenile leaves papery-thin, dark green on the upper pase, and very pale green on the lower, 

 ovate-acuminate, about 5 or 6 cm. long, and 2-2-5 broad, intramarginal vein close to the edge, the midrib 

 prominent, also the lateral veins, which vary from nearly at right-angles to an angle of 45 degrees to the 

 same, and curving towards the apex of the leaf. 



Foliage like that of E. Gloezia.no,, with texture thin, and the upper and lower pages differing much 

 in colour, is indicative of good soil, moisture, and shade, and good growing conditions generally. 



Timber pale-coloured, drying yellowish-brown, fissile, rather coarse and wavy in the grain. 



Bark flaky-fibrous and furrowed. 



Mr. P. MacMahon says " the bark is remarkable — brown, deeply furrowed, 

 flaky, like a brown flaky siderophloia, but, of course, not hard. It is a very striking 

 tree." 



Local name " Messmate " on the North Coast line, where it is cut for the 

 mills. 



Dr. T. L. Bancroft gives the name " Dead Finish " at Stannary Hills, in the 

 Cairns district. 



The term " Dead Finish " is usually applied in Australia to an impenetrable 

 scrub which bars further progress, but Dr. Bancroft (Bailey, Qld. Agrlc. Jour., 

 Dec, 1908, p. 293) explains it as follows as regards this species : — 



Bushmen, when making a damper, found good cinders or coals could be obtained by burning pieces 

 of this wood, but when the coals were raked about preliminary to placing the damper in the ashes they 

 went out. As long as you left the fire alone it burnt well enough, but wdien interfered with went black. 



The species was named in honour of Prof. Cloez, of Paris, a distinguished 

 chemist, who worked on Eucalyptus oils, and who published the following early 

 researches on Eucalyptus oil : — ■ 



I. Examen chimique des feuilles d'Eucalyptus globulus, 1869. 



II. Etude chimique de 1'Eucalyptol, 1870. 



SYNONYMS. 



1. E. stannariensis , Bailey. 



2. E. Stuartiana, of MacMahon and others, non E.v.M. 



1. E. stannariensis, Bailey, in Queensland Agricultural Journal, xxi, 293 

 (December, 1908). 



A specimen of the type of E. Cloeziana (received from the late Mr. C. 

 Walter, who obtained it from Baron von Mueller) and of E. stannariensis (received 

 from Dr. T. L. Bancroft), are figured side by side on Plate 64. 



