VON Ettingshavsek. — Fossil Flora of New Zealand . 263 



This reminds me of Myrica integrifoUa , Ung., of the Central 

 European Tertiary flora, "from which it is distinguished by the 

 small thorny point and the thinner texture of the leaf. 



From the rather strong primary nerve spring delicate 

 secondary nerves, which run somewhat curved, and which 

 have been presen'cd in few places. No trace of tertiary nerves 

 exists ; however, these may have been very delicate, as in the 

 related .1/. integrifolia. 



Myrica proxima, sp. no v. 



Plate XXVI., fig. 14. 



M. foliis coriacels, lanccolato-oblongis, apicc hrcviter, basi 

 Innge {?) angustatis, margine deHticulatis ; nervatiom campto- 

 (Iroma, nervo primario valiclo, secundariis suhanguUs vix acutk 

 orientibus, i^Tomincntihus, simplicibus vel furcatis, longioribus 

 cum'brevioribus altcrnantibus ; nervis tertiariis e latere externo 

 secundarioruvi sub angulis raldc acutis egredientibus : reticulo 

 ohsoleto. 



Locality: Malvern Hills, I. (Canterbury Musemi. [Ex 

 Coll. Geol. Surv. Cant. ; w Haast.] 



This species as well as the previous one represents also a 

 species in the European Tertiary flora — viz., Mi/rica lignitiim, 

 Ung. I have before me only a fragment of a leaf (fig. 14). The 

 cliaracteristics which it presents do not only indicate the genus 

 Myrica, but they designate M. lignituni, and consequently I 

 consider the identity of the species as most probable ; how- 

 ever, I do not venture to accept this unreservedly, as only a 

 single imperfect fragment is before me. I therefore leave the 

 final decision to futui-e researches. 



I may here mention, in order to meet possible doubts as re- 

 gards the acceptance of the genus Myrica among the Tertiary 

 flora of New Zealand, that I have found three species of 

 Myrica among the Tertiary fossils of Australia, which are 

 closely related to the European Tertiary species, of which latter 

 }f. koninki approaches M. proxima very closely. 



Myrica praequercifolia, sp. nov. 



Plate XXVI., figs. 6, 12, ta. 



M. fructibus spha^ricis, granulosis, foliis subcoriaceis. 

 ohlongis, basi brcvitcr cunciformibHS, margine suboppositc 

 sinuatis pinnatilobisve , subsessilibus ; nervationc camptodroyna , 

 nervo primario dcbili, recto, infra apicem evancscente ; nervis 

 secundariis tenuibus, angiilis variis acutis egredientibus, simpli- 

 c-ibus rectis ; nervis tertiariis tenuissimis ; reticulo obsoleto. 



Locality : Shag Point (Canterbury Museum ; Otago 

 Museum). [Kc Coll. Geol. Surv. Otago, 1862 ; Hector: and 

 (leol. Surv. of N.Z., Rep. 1872 ; v. Haast, I.e.] 



