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" This is easily distinguished from Z. barkleyi, by the much 

 thicker rachis, the broader oval form of the pinnules and their 

 thicker substance. I have just received some specimens nearly 

 like this plant in foliage, but having indications of the leaflets or 

 leaves being in four instead of two rows, and having a branching 

 stem, recalling Lycopodites williamsoni of the Scarborough Oolites, 

 but with the leaves flat and elliptical, instead of thick carinate and 

 falcate. I should propose the name Bunyalites for the fossil 

 forms which approach Araucarites in many respects, and have 

 branching stems, but with the leaves contracted at the base as in 

 the Podozamites, and Araucaria bidwilli or Bunya-bunya. Along 

 with these plants are also fruit cones resembling the Oolitic 

 Zamistrobus, as far as their character can be seen." 



Podozamites longifolius. M { Coy (1. c, p. 35. pi. 8, fig. 3.) 

 Fronds about ten lines wide, rachis about half a line thick ; pinnae 

 slightly contracted and obliquely inserted at base, closely arranged 

 in two rows, standing nearly at right angles to the rachis, except 

 at the curved base ; pinnae linear narrow, elliptically pointed at 

 apex about 5 lines long and half a line wide ; midrib distinct 

 with fine, parallel longitudinal striae. 



" At first sight this resembles Z. taxinea of the Yorkshire 

 Oolites, but is smaller and even more like a yew from the distinct- 

 ness of the midrib. It differs more essentially in the contracted 

 base and oblique insertion of the leaflets. The strong midrib 

 approximates the species to Cycadites, but it varies in some pinnae 

 and the contracted oblique base of the pinnae prevents a reference 

 to the genus. The plant is not so common as the other gymno- 

 sperms in the coal shale at Bellarine, where I have seen about 

 half-a-dozen specimens." 



Podozamites lanceolatus, Lindley and Hutton (as Zamia), Foss. 

 Flor., Ill, 194, 1837. Zamites lanceolatus, Eichwald, Leth., Ross., 

 II, p. 40, pi. 3, fig. 1, 1865-68; Podozamites distans, Schimper, 

 Pal, veg., vol. 2, p. 159, Atlas, pi. 71, fig. 1. P. lanceolatus and 

 varieties, Heer Flora Ostsibiriens, &c, p. 108, pi. 26, fig. 10, 

 1876 ; Feistmantel records Geol. Survey India 1 & 4, p. 131, 



