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2. With E. leptophleba, F.v.M.; (E. drepanophylla, F.v.M.). 



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

 Part X (Tol. i), and supplementary notes in Part XII (Vol. ii), p. G7. 



The fruit of E. Icploplileba is more cylindrical and rimmed, the foliage is 

 larger, thicker, and differently veined, the buds are 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. Cloeziana. 



3. "With E. siclerophloia, 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 very acuminate, and the fruits of a different shape. 



A. With E. microtheca, F.v.M. 



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

 narrow leaves, with very different venation, and fruits so small that they cannot be 

 confused with those of E. Cloeziana. 



5. E. Naudiniana, F.v.M. 



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

 same time I think that the affinities of E. Cloeziana 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 usually 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, which are renan- 

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

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



6. With E. acmenioides, Schauer. 



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

 E. Cloeziana 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. The 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 important difference that those of 

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

 therous. 



7. With E. microcorijs, F.v.M. 



It is perhaps as close to this species, which is another thin-leaved species, with 

 markedly bi-color juvenile and even mature leaves. E. microcorijs is renantherous 

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

 its timber. 



