Fossil Floras of Cape Colony. 41 



Echinostrobus rajmahalensis may bo veferrecl to as one of the many 

 similar types of Coniferous shoots, also the widely spread species 

 Brachyphyllum mainillare Brongn., but without more material 

 specific identification is hopeless. 



Plate VI., tig. 13 (299c). 



The figure represents a portion of the specimen ; the branch was 

 clothed with crowded and spirally disposed leaves, which were 

 probably of the thick and fleshy Brachypliylliim type. 



Associated with Araucarites scales and with Zaviites recta. 



Plate VI., fig. 18 (348c). 



A small piece of a branched twig showing a well-defined reticulum 

 marking the spaces between the crowded leaves or leaf-cushions. 

 Each mesh of the reticulum is occupied by a flat area divided intO' 

 an upper and a lower region, and showing in the upper third of the 

 median line a patch of carbonaceous material. The whole (fig. 18) 

 presents a superficial resemblance to the leaf-cushion and leaf-scar 

 of a Leiyidondendron. 



The portion figured has a length of 3*5 mm. 



In addition to fragments like that represented in fig. 13, pi. vi., a 

 few smaller examples of coniferous twigs occur (354c, 355c) of the 

 type shown in fig. 2. These smaller pieces show the apices of the 

 appressed and thick leaves projecting slightly from the axis of 

 the branch. A comparison may be made between these more 

 slender shoots and the European Wealden species Sphemlepidmm 

 kurrianum (Schenk), but it would be rash to suggest specific 

 identity. 



Genus CONITES Sternberg. 



CONITES Sp. a. 



Plate VL, figs. 2, 2a. 



The two small and somewhat obscure cones shown in fig. 2 (310c) 

 appear to be attached to a slender branched axis, but they are not 

 in organic connection with the adjacent twig. It is impossible to 

 determine the nature of these cones, whether male or immature 

 female ; the small dimensions suggest a comparison with the male 

 flowers of recent Conifera3, but, on the other hand, the comparatively 



