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the Helvetian of Switzerland and one from the-Messinian of Italy. 

 Allied to Protea but possibly more generalized is the genus Pro- 

 teoidcs of Heer. This has several Tertiary species and a consider- 

 able number of Upper Cretaceous species (15). There are two each 

 in the Cenomanian of Bohemia and Lesina, two in the Atane beds 

 of Greenland, three in the Dakota sandstone of North America, one 

 in the Tuscaloosa formation of Alabama, one in the Middendorf beds 

 of South Carolina, one in the Cretaceous of Australia, two in the 

 Vancouver Island Cretaceous and one in the Senonian of Saxony. 



The genus Proteophyllum Velenovsky 19 a still more generalized 

 proteaceous type has seven species (Saporta, 1894). in the Albian 

 (Vraconian) of Portugal and 8 species in the Perucer beds (Ceno- 

 manian) of Bohemia. Another generalized type is Protcopsis Vel- 

 enovsky with a single species in the Cenomanian of Bohemia. The 

 genus Protecephyllum of Fontaine containing 2 species in the Patux- 

 ent fomation (Neocomian) of Virginia I regard as entirely worth- 

 less. 20 The genus Conarrhenes Labill with one existing species in 

 Tasmania has a single species based on both foliage and fruit in the 

 Miocene of Carniola according to a determination of Ettingshausen's 

 which may well be viewed with suspicion. The genus Conospermum 

 Smith with about 33 existing species in Australia has two fossil spe- 

 cies in the Oligocene of Styria and one in the Miocene of Carniola, 

 while the somewhat less definite genus Conospermites (Ettings- 

 hausen, 1867) has a fossil species in the Upper Cretaceous of Aus- 

 tralia and one in the Cenomanian of Saxony and Bohemia.- 1 



The genus Helicia Lour, is of especial interest since it is found 

 farther north in the existing flora than any other member of the 

 family. There are about 25 modern forms, mostly Indomalayan, 

 but a few still survive in or have recently spread to Australia. The 

 fossil record includes a species in the Oligocene of Styria and another 

 in the Pliocene of Italy. The genus Lambcrtia Smith with 8 exist- 

 ing Australian species has a single fossil species in the Miocene of 

 Carniola. The genus Hakca Schrad. with 100 recent Australian 



19 Velenovsky, Kvetena ceskeho cenomanu, 1889, p. 18. 



20 See Berry, Md. Geol. Surv., Lower Cretaceous, iqi 1, pp. 494-499. 



21 1 regard Fontaine's determination of a species in the Lower Cretaceous 

 of Virginia as worthless. 



