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Plate VI., fig. 4 (298c). 



This scale — 3 cm. long — shows clearly the impressions of the 

 vascular bundles over the area originally occupied by the seed. The 

 thin lateral margins are partially preserved, but in the perfect scale 

 the breadth was no doubt slightly greater. In the middle of the 

 distal edge the scale shows part of a projection similar to the longer 

 outgrowth seen in Araucaria cookii, the scales and seeds of which 

 agree closely with those of Araiicarites rogersi. 



Plate VI., fig. 5 (298c). 



A much smaller and less perfect scale, similar to Araiicarites 

 ■cutcheiisis, as figured by Feistmantel from the Upper Gondwanas of 

 the Madras Coast,* and to some scales of Araiicarites pliillipsi Carr.f 



Plate VI., fig. 6 (295c). 



Two imperfectly preserved overlapping scales, each showing the 

 outline of a seed. The two scales are so closely pressed together 

 that it is almost impossible to trace the boundary between them. 



Plate VI., fig. 7 (300c). 



This specimen shows more clearly the broad membranous wing. 

 Part of the projection from the distal margin is preserved, a depres- 

 sion in the middle line of the scale indicating the position of the 

 seed. 



Other Specimens : 301c, 304c (with fragments of Zamites), 306c, 

 307c, 308c (with Zamites, &c.), 319c (with good impression, on the 

 reverse side, of Cijcadolepis), 322c, 330c, 331c, 337c. 



CONIFEEALES OF DOUBTFUL POSITION. 



Genus TAXITES Brongniart. 



This artificial genus is convenient for the inclusion of fragments 

 of vegetative twigs, presumably of conifers, resembling those of 

 Taxus, Sequoia sempervirens, Torreya, and some other types of 

 recent Coniferae, in having narrow linear leaves traversed by a single 

 midrib and disposed in a two-ranked arrangement. Many of the 



* Feistmantel (79), pi. xiv. f Cf. Seward (00), pi. x., fig. 4. 



