(75) 



Banksia Linn. f. Suppl. 15. 1781. 

 The existing species number about fifty and are confined 

 to the Australian region. Two fossil species have been iden- 

 tified from American strata, but whether or'not they are al- 

 lied to the living Banksiae is not altogether certain. 



Banksia pusilla Velen. 



Banksia fiisilla Velen. Fl. Boehm. Kreidef. 7 (32).//. / 

 (9)./. 14-17. 1883. Hollick, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 

 16: 132.//. 13' f' 7' 1897- 



With the exception of Banksia Helvetica Keer, which 

 Lesquereux records from the Eolignitic of Mississippi, this 

 genus is not found elsewhere on this continent, although spe- 

 cies referred to this and the allied genus Banksitcs occur in 

 the European Tertiary. It is essentially a later genus, with 

 upwards of fifty existing species which are all confined to 

 the Australian region. The above species is very similar to 

 Santalum Amcricanum Lesq. (Cret. & Tert. Fl. pi. J2. f. 7) 

 of the western Tertiary. 



NYMPHAEACEAE. 

 Nelumbo Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 76. 1763. 



But two living species are known, JV. Nelumbo (L.) Karst. 

 of eastern Asia and N. lutea (Willd.) Pers. of eastern North 

 America, giving emphasis to the well-known similarity of 

 these two floras. The genus appeared in the middle Creta- 

 ceous and ranges to the Miocene Tertiary, increasing regu- 

 larly in size. There are one Asiatic, seven European and 

 nine American fossil species,* all of the American species, 

 unless it be Heer's from Atane, being from a considerably 

 higher horizon than our Cliffwood specimen. 



Exceptions to the latter statement are unpublished species 

 from Long Island and Martha's Vineyard, discovered bv Dr. 

 Hollick. 



Nelumbo primaeva sp. nov. PI. 43./. /. 



This is undoubtedly a portion of a leaf of Nelumbo — too 



*The living and fossil species are enumerated by Hollick in Bull. Torrey 

 Club, 21 : 307. 1894. 



