FROM KOZÜKE, KU, AWA, AXD TOSA. 929 



to Ctenoplijilluin in wliicli tlie veins are partly forked and those near 

 the niargii^. run unto it. 



A specimen represented in fig. 7, pi. XXV is a s])lendid one from 

 Kataji, showiiiu' the under side of the leaf, although the veins are not 

 well visible. The other figures represent fragments found at Yuasa. 



Loc. — Kataji, Ishiseki, Yuasa; not rare. 



24. Ptilophyllum cf. eutehense Morris. 



Ptilujihi/lluiit cf. ciitdu-nse.- — Natliorst, Beitr. z. mesoz. Flora Japans, p. 12, PI. IV, 

 fig. 8. 



What X'athorst has described from Chöja under the above denomi- 

 nation, I have not been able to find in my collection. 



Coniferse. 



25. Cyparissidium (?) japonicum »/. 

 PI. XX, Figs. 3a, 6, Ga, 13. PI. XXIV, Fig. 4. 



Branches copious. altciiuAtc. risbuj at on acute an<jlc, .slender, and cord- 

 like, straifjhf or verij dujlithj curved, ultiinale brandies ahout 1 nnu. in 

 hreadtli: leares tinJn-icaled, closehj oppressed, acute at apex, ni'tli a lonipJud- 

 inal ridije on their haclis. 



Iij K:igah;u'a there are remains of a coniferous plant whose 

 branches thickly cover the faces of stones. Unfortunatelv however 

 they are so flatly pressed and smoothed that the minufe details of the 

 leaves are not well visible; l)ut in a specimen from Tanno which is 

 much better preserved, the imbricate leaves, as they are always partlv 

 covered by the two preceding ones, appear lozenge-shajjcd. The longi- 

 tudin;d ridge is distinct and tolerably elevated, and in external im- 

 pressions of le:nes, it is present as a deep groove. It is not possible to 

 decide as to what o-enus the plant belonu's, there beino- several o-enera 

 Avith a similar type of leaves. 1 have brought it therefore provisionallv 



