ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE ON FOSSII- SALISBURI^ 



FROM AUSTRALIA. 



By F. Ratte, M.E. 



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Jeanpaulia (?) palmata, Ratte, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I. 

 (ser. 2), p. 1078; Salishuria palmata, Ratte, emend, from 

 Jeanpaulia or Baiera palmata, Ibid. Vol. II. (ser. 2), p. 137. 



After the last meeting of the Society, when I suggested that 

 the large palmate leaf found in the shale of the Wianamatta- 

 Hawkesbury formation, should be referred to the genus Salisburia, 

 I unexpectedly found in the French weekly paper " La Nature," 

 an interesting contribution on the subject, by Marquis G. de 

 Saporta. 



From that paper and the woodcuts given, I find that this 

 author, and also Professor Heer of Zurich, give the name of 

 Salisburia to a number of plants with coriaceous and persistent 

 leaves, which, for the sake of giving a brief outline of their 

 characters and distribution, I will enumerate as follows : — 



