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PHYLLOTIIECA. 



V. 4289. An obscure fragment showing traces of branch-scars 

 at some little distance above the node. 



Port Stephens, New South Wales. Odinheimer Coll. 



Other specimens :— 39,140, 39,140t*, 39,141, 39,142, V. 4198*, 

 V. 4289, V. 7287 (from Port Stephens, New South Wales ; Odin- 

 heimer Coll.), ?V. 10,653 (from Sydney; Keene Coll.). 



Specimens showing the leaves. 



V. 7215. PI. II, Fig. 8. 



Fragment of a detached leaf-sheath, showing the sheath clearly, 

 and the long linear free segments. 



Port Stephens, New South Wales. Odinheimer Coll. 



V. 7286. PI. II, Fig. 7. 



A detached leaf-sheath with seventeen or more free segments, 

 which are about 1 cm. long. The spreading or star-like habit of 

 the free segments is clearly seen. 



Port Stephens, New South Wales. Odinheimer Coll. 



V. 7284. Two detached leaf- sheaths showing the characters of 

 the sheath. One of these has twenty-four free segments, and the 

 other about twenty. 



Australia. Odinheimer Coll. 



V. 4198. A detached leaf-sheath with twenty-one free segments. 

 Port Stephens, New South Wales. 



53,575. Very imperfect fragments of leaf- sheaths. 

 Cockatoo Creek, North Queensland. 



Presented by R. L. Jack, Esq., 1879. 

 Other specimens:— V. 7216, V. 7214. 

 Port Stephens, New South Wales. Odinheimer Coll. 



2. Phyllotheca indica, Bunbury. 

 (Text-fig. 6.) 



1861. Phyllotheca indica, Bunbury, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xvii, 



p. 335, pi. x, figs. 6-9. 

 1869. P. indica, Schimper, Traite, vol. i, p. 289. 



1876. P. indica, Feistmantel, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol.lxv, pt. 2, p. 346. 

 1880. P. indica, Feistmantel, Flora Goudw. Syst., vol. iii, pts. 2, 3, p. 67, 



pi. xii a, figs. 3-9. 

 1893. P. indica, Oldham, Man. Geol. India, pi. opp. p. 162. 

 1898. P. indica, Seward, Foss. Plants, vol. i, p. 287, fig. 68c. 



