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drift-wood with coniferous and dicotyledonous structure occurred 
along with the West Wittering specimens. 
The Belgian and Italian fruits must have floated some time, as 
they are often much bored, while the associated fossils have a 
somewhat more marine character than those of the London Clay. 
In every case there is ample evidence, as Bowerbank, Ettings- 
hausen, and Schimper have demonstrated, from both the fossil 
fauna and flora, of a tropical or at least subtropical climate. 
Nipapites, Bowerbank. 
Nipadites, Bowerbank, Fossil Fruits and Seeds of the London Clay 
(1840), p. 1; Unger, Synopsis Plantarum Fossilium (1845), p. 180, 
Genera et Species Plant. Foss. (1850) p. 327; Ad. Brongniart, Tableau, 
(1849), p. 88; Ettingshausen, in Sitzungsb. Mat.-Nat. Cl. Akad. Wiss. 
Wien, viii. (1852) p. 491; Schimper, Traité Paléont. Végét. ii. (1870-72) 
p- 479; Watelet, Description des Plantes Fossiles du Bassin de Paris 
(1866), p. 91. 
Cocos, Burtin, Oryctographie de Bruzelles (1784), p. 118, t. xxx. A; 
Parkinson, Organic Remains (1804), p. 457 ; Ad. Brongniart, Prodrome 
(1828), p. 121. 
Pandanocarpum, Brongn. Prodrome, p. 138; Endlicher, Genera Plan- 
tarum (1836-40), p. 244. 
Cocites, Bronn, Lethea Geognostica (1837), i. p. 861. 
Burtinia, Endlicher, 1. c. p. 257; Unger, Synopsis, p. 187, Gen. et Sp. 
p- 339; Massalongo, Synopsis Palm. Fossil., in Lotos, ii. (Prague, 1852), 
p. 205 *. 
Paleokeura, Massalongo, Plante Foss. Nove (Verona, 1853), p. 13, 
“Un Nuova Genere di Pandanee Fossile’ (1853), p. 21; Meschinelli and 
Squinabol, Flora Tert. Ital. (Padua, 1893), p. 160. 
Nipa, Ettingshausen, in Proc. Roy. Soc. xxix. (1879) p. 393. 
Drupz lanceolatx, ovate, obovatie, vel cordiformes, 4-5- rarius 
3- vel 6-angulares, basi truncate et sepe lacerw, epicarpio 
tenue levi, mesocarpio fibroso, endocarpio duro, monosperma, 
embryone basali. 
Nipapires Burtrni, Ad. Brongn. Tableau, p. 88; Lyell, in 
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. viii. (1852) p. 345, t. xix. figs. 1 & 
t. xx. figs. 7 & 8; Schimper, partim, /. c. p. 479. (Plate VI.) 
Cocos, Burtin, 1. c. 
Cocos Burtini, Brongn. Prodrome, p. 121. 
Cocites Burtini, Bronn, l. c. 
* I have ignored Endlicher’s Burtinia as, first, the evidence as to date of 
publication is not exact, the title-page of the ‘Genera Plantarum’ bearing the 
date 1836-40, while that of the Preface is 1841, and secondly, his very brief 
diagnosis will not apply to any species of Nipadites. 
