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Plate VI., fig. 4 (2980). 



Tliis scale — 3 cm. long — shows clearly the impressions of the 

 vascular bundles over the area originally occupied by the seed. The 

 thin lateral margins are partially preserved, but in the perfect scale 

 the breadth was no doubt sliglitly greater. In the middle of the 

 distal edge the scale shows part of a projection similar to the longer 

 outgrowth seen in Araucaria coohii, the scales and seeds of which 

 agree closely with those of Araucaritcs rogersi. 



Plate VI., fig. 5 (298c). 



A much smaller and less perfect scale, similar to Araucarites 

 cutcliensis, as figured by Feistmantel from the Upper Gondwanas of 

 the Madras Coast,* and to some scales of Araucaritcs pliiUipsi Carr.f 



Plate VI., fig. 6 (295c). 



Two imperfectly preserved overlapping scales, each showing the 

 outline of a seed. The two scales are so closely pressed together 

 that it is almost impossible to trace the boundary between them, 



Plate VI., fig. 7 (300c). 



This specimen show^s more clearly the broad membranous wing. 

 Part of the projection from the distal margin is preserved, a depres- 

 sion in the middle line of the scale indicating the position of the 

 seed. 



Other Specimens : 301c, 304c (with fragments of Zaniitcs), 306c, 

 307c, 308c (with Zaniites, &c.), 319c (with good impression, on the 

 reverse side, of Ci/cadolepis), 322c, 330c, 331c, 337c. 



CONIFEEALES OP DOUBTFUL POSITION. 



Genus TAXITES Brongniart. 



This artificial genus is convenient for the inclusion of fragments 

 of vegetative twigs, presumably of conifers, resembling those of 

 Taxus, Sequoia sempcrvircns, Torreija, and some other types of 

 recent Coniferae, in having narrow linear leaves traversed by a single 

 midrib and disposed in a two-ranked arrangement. Many of the 



* Feistmantel (79), pi. xiv. f Cf. Seward (CO), pi. x., tig. 4. 



