BRACHYPHYLLUM. 



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Brachyphyllum (?) australe, Feistmantel. 



(Text-fig. 50. 



Suppl. 



1878. Brachyphyllum (?) australe, Feistmantel, Palceontogr. , 



pp. 97, 98, pi. vii, figs. 3-6 ; pi. xvii. 

 1883. B. (?) australe, Teuison-YVoods, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 



vol. viii, p. 159. 

 1890. B. (?) australe, Feistmantel, Mem. Geol. Surv. New South "Wales, 



Pal., No. 3, p. 162, pi. xv, fig. 4 ; pi. xxii, figs. 1, 2. 



Type. ? Australian Museum, Sydney. 



" Branchlets elongate, slender, flexuous, leaves spirally disposed, 

 squainiforin, rhomboid- oblong, somewhat thick, apex acuminate, 



Fig. 50. — Brachyphyllum (?) australe, Feist. After Feistmantel. Nat. size. 



sub-keeled and a little flattened, amentum covered with sub- 

 rhomboid, acute, acuminate scales, the apex somewhat flattened 

 and spirally disposed." 



Feistrnantel's description, quoted above, and his figures certainly 

 seem to agree fairly well with the characters of some of the known 

 members of this genus. He compares the Australian species with 

 Echinostrobus Stembergi, Schimp., Palissya aptera, Schenk, and 

 Brachyphyllum Papareli, Sap. 



Brachyphyllum (?) australe is known only from the Newcastle 

 Beds of New South Wales. 



Not represented in the British Museum collection. 



