BY THE REV. J. E. TENISON-WOODS, F.G.S., F.L.S. 



Three fossil species are known in Europe, all from Cretaceous 

 rocks, and one from the Lower Jura or Upper Lias coal beds of 

 India. It was named C. incequifolius, Oldham and Morris, but 

 Feistmantel thinking the name inappropriate changed it to 

 C. dubiosus. The specimen is very imperfect. See Foss., Flor., 

 Gondwana, vol. 1, p. 140, pi. 33, fig. 3, 4. Also Lindl. andHutt., 

 Foss., Fl., vol. II., pi. 127, where there is a figure of the living 

 species with an axillary cone. Also Goeppert, Monogr., d. foss., 

 Coniferen, pi. 47, fig. 5. 



In the specimens found at Rosewood, Ipswich, there are two or 

 three with male amenta in terminal clusters which are figured here 

 rendering the identification of the genus much more certain. The 

 leaves, however, are seldom entire, which gives the appearance of 

 an obtuse or unequal foliage which is seen in the Indian fossil. 



Gunninghamites australis, n. s. Plate 3, fig. 1, 2, 3, plate 4, 

 fig. 1. Leaves long, linear, pointed, decurrent, entire. Male 

 amenta in rather thick corrugated clusters at the ends of the 

 branches. Generally two of the amenta are alone distinct in the 

 fossil, but others can always be traced in the centre : they are 

 curved. 



Abundant in a pale, yellowish shale, at Rosewood, where no 

 doubt a careful search would enable us to restore the plant com- 

 pletely. 



Pine Fruits. 



Araucarites (?) polycarpa, n. s. I give this name to a fruit 

 cone, of which a figure is given at PI. 10, fig. 1. It was found in a 

 conglomerate partly derived from the coal beds of the Burnett 

 River, Q. L., but it may be of subsequent date or even Tertiary. 

 It is an ironstone (limonite) concretion. The inside of the fruit 

 has been dissolved, leaving a cast of the external portion beau- 

 tifully preserved, except where it is covered by a black vitreous 

 iron ore which fills the centre. The whole formed a brown water- 

 worn stone, which being broken across in making the railway 

 ballast discovered the fossil inside. 



