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CONIFERALES. 



The coniferous remains from tlie Walloon Series are of a frag- 

 mentary nature and are not abundant. They include cones or 

 portions of cones of Araucarites and fragments of branches and 

 foliage leaves to which have been assigned generic names such as 

 Brachyphyllum, Taxites, PaUssya, and Cunyiinghamites. The value 

 of these latter fragments is small botanically, but some of them 

 have a certain value from a stratigraphical point of view. This is 

 more particularly the case since they are mostly characteristic of 

 the Walloon Series and do not appear in the Ipswdch Series ; the 

 most valuable of the Lower Mesozoic fossils in Queensland are 

 those which assist us in a palseontological distinction between the 

 Ipswich and Walloon Series. 



Araucabites polycarpa, Tenison- Woods, 



(Plate 9, figs. 5, 6.) 



1883. AravxMrites (?) jjolycarpa, Tenison-Woods, Proc. Limi. Soc. 

 N.S.W., 8, p. 165. 



1883. Araucarites (V) australis, Tenison-Woods, ibid, t. 10, fig. 1. 



1892. Araucarites (?) pohjcarpa, Etheridge, Geol, Pal. Qland., 

 p. 383, t. 18, fig. 1. 



The only sjiecimens available are the cones which were described 

 by Etheridge in 1892 and there is little that can be added to his 

 remarks. He describes the specimen he figured thus : " The cone 

 was probabl}^ elongate, and perhaps cylindrical ; the scales are 

 rhomboidal, with a subapical mucro, or stout blunt spine, but do 

 not appear to be ridged in the true sense of the word, nor divided 

 into an upper or lower portion ; in each oblique row on the side 

 visible there are about ten scales." ^ 



These Araucarian cones all come from Stewart's Ck., in the 

 Walloon Series, and there seems little doubt of their close relation 

 to cones of Araucaria. 



Localities : — {Walloon Series) : Stewart's Creek (F 709). 



Figured specimen : The original of Plates 9, fig. 5, is specimen 

 F 708 in the collection of the Queensland Oological Survey. 



'" Etheridge (92), p. 383. 



