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species of Cupania extends to Victoria, the great majority of the 

 species being semi-tropical. Trematocuryon McLellani found in 

 the auriferous drift of the Pliocene formation in the same locality 

 belongs apparently to the Sapindacese and yet no genus now existing 

 in Australia is represented by it. In all probability it flourished 

 under climatic conditions very different from those now prevailing. 

 Hhytidotheca Lynchii (a fossil found under similar circumstances) 

 may have belonged to some plant of the Meliacece, though at the 

 present day no genus of the order is found in Victoria, the species 

 occurring for the most part in the Northern District of New South 

 Wales and Queensland. Baron Mueller remarks in reference to 

 this fact that ' The newly discovered remnant of a past Flora 

 indicates a clime formerly warmer and more humid and equable 

 than that of the spot where now vestiges of extinct forests are 

 buried.' Celyphina McGoyi had a fruit resembling Helicia prcealta 

 of the Proteacese from the warmer parts of eastern Australia. 

 Odontocaryon is unlike any existing genus ; but Goachotheca 

 rotundata from the Pliocene formation at Nitingbool seems very 

 like some extinct species of Grevillea of that section now exclu- 

 sively tropical. Eisotltecaryon semiseptatum, found at Gulgong 

 in the Upper Pliocene layers, comes very close to Villaresia, 

 a genus now represented in Eastern Australia by two 

 species, the one in Queensland and the other not known farther 

 south than Clarence River. Araucaria Johnstonii of Tasmania, 

 found imbedded in the yellow Tertiary freshwater limestone near 

 Hobart, is supposed to be allied to A. Cunninghami, " the Moreton 

 Bay Pine," a species ranging from Queensland to the Hastings 

 and Clarence. A. Bidwilli or " The Bunya Bunya " is peculiar to 

 Queensland, and A. excelsa to Norfolk Island. The occurrence of 

 an Araucaria in Tasmania is highly interesting, and as it has been 

 found in company with fruits of plants exhumed from the gold 

 drifts of Victoria and N. S. Wales, it may well be associated with the 

 Flora of the past as indicating a wanner climate in Victoria and N. S. 

 Wales. The wood and fruit of Banksia and the foliage of Eucalyptus 

 obliqua were enumerated by Prof. McCoy, from auriferous drifts, 

 but as these are probably identical with living species, the Rev. W. 



