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GROUP II. E. CLADOCALYX. 
The botanist J. C. Schauer in calling this eucalypt acmenioides assumed 
similarity of its foliage to that of Acmena floribunda , a tree now moie coirectly 
known to science as Eugenia Smithii. Maiden compares the adult tree leaves to 
those of the peach. Either suggestion may help the student a little in his search 
for the species in our New Zealand plantations. 
12. E. CLADOCALYX (syn. E. C OR YNO CALYX) E. von Mueller. 
NATURAL HABITAT, DESCRIPTION, AND USES. 
Widely distributed in South Australia and Victoria, and there cultivated in 
the State forests. Tree of medium size producing mature wood early, and much 
valued for wire poles, fence posts, and railway sleepers. Dead bark non-fibrous, 
deciduous from branches and stem, surface of living bark dull white. Juvenile 
leaves already stalked, round or oval; those of adult tree about 5in. long with oily 
lustre on upper surface. Umbel with several flowers; stalk Min. to 5sin., 
stalklets Min.; bud long and narrow and crowned with low cap-like lid; anthers 
with parallel openings. Ripe seed-cup about Min. deep by /sin. wide, contracted 
towards both orifice and pedicel, marked on surface with very distinct longitudinal 
lines; 3-celled with valves wholly below contracted rim. The specific name 
corynocalyoc was suggested by the club-like shape of the buds and seed-cups. 
Mature wood brown to dull yellow, very hard, durable in the ground, suitable for 
electric wire poles, railway sleepers, and fence posts. 
CULTIVATION IN NEW ZEALAND. 
E. cladocalyoc can flourish where the summer temperature is high and the 
rainfall low, but it cannot endure many degrees of frost. Mention of a few 
localities where it has succeeded in New Zealand will be a guide to planters in the 
future. On a farm called “Fernglen” in North Wairarapa Sir Walter Buchanan 
in November, 1899, sowed about 9 acres of well prepared land with seed of this 
species obtained from South Australia. The result was a good take, and in 
twenty years’ time nearly the whole of the area was covered with a dense stand 
of vigorous young trees in the pole-timber stage. The locality is near the sea, 
and the site of the plantation a little above the level of the adjacent land. In the 
winter nights the cold air falls to the lower levels, and leaves the tiees with a 
temperature probably never below 28° F. The plantation is now a very valuable 
asset. Other vigorous specimens of E. cladocalyoc in smaller numbers may be 
seen in similar nearly frostless localities in north Marlborough, at Havelock 
North, in the Auckland area, at “Puketiti” near Tokomaru Bay, and farther north 
near Kamo. Seed should be obtained from “Fernglen”. 
In Australia E. cladocalyoc is essentially a dry country species, attaining its 
best away from the coast where the annual rainfall is as low as 20 inches. The 
rainfall at “Fernglen” is probably 36 inches, and this may be about the maximum 
permissible for the species in New Zealand. 
