272 Transaciions. — Geology. 



observation may suffice that in Flanera it is unusual for the 

 secondary nerves to start at acute angles, while this often 

 occurs in Ulmus. 



Planera australis, sp. nov. 



Plate XXVII., fig. 9. 



P. foliis breviter petwlatis, inembranac&is, ovatis vel ovato- 

 oblongis, basi rotiindata subinaquali, cqnce acuminatis, mar- 

 (jine grosse dentatis, dentibus obtusmscuUs cmtrorsnm versis ; 

 nervatione craspcdodroma, nerve primario promincntc recto, 

 apicem vcrsiis valde attcnuato ; nervis secundariis stih angulis 

 65°-65°, inferioribus sub obtusioribus orientibus, tcnnibus, sub- 

 ciirvatis ; nervis tertiariis angulo snbrecto egrcdientibiis, 

 tcnuissimis, jjleriimque obsoletis. 



Localities : Shag Point (Otago Museum); Malvern Hills, I. ; 

 Murderer's Creek (Canterbury Museum). [Ex Coll. Geol. 

 Surv. Otago, 1862 ; Hector : and Canterbury; v. Haast.] 



Shows an extraordinary similarity with Planera ungeri,xn.., 

 which is spread throughout the European Tertiary flora and 

 the North American Tertiary strata. I found it impossible to 

 discover a difference in so fa-r as the characteristics of these 

 leaves could be compared, so that if the Planera remains from 

 New Zealand occurred in European Tertiary strata we should 

 immediately ascribe them to P. ungeri. -As, however, in these 

 remains the tertiary nerves are defectively preserved and the 

 reticulation is altogether wanting, no exact comparison could 

 be made, the decision as regards the identity of the species 

 must be left to future researches, and for the present the New 

 Zealand Planera species must be brought under the above 

 designation. 



MOEE.E. 



Ficus sublanceolata, sp. nov. 



Plate XXVII., fig. 7. 



F. foliis coreaceis oblongis, integerrimis, nervatione camiJio- 

 droma, nervo primario valido recto, nervis secundariis sub 

 angulis 65^-86° orientibus, firmis prominentibus , valde arcuatis, 

 marginem versus inter se conjunctis ; nervis tertiariis pro- 

 viinentibus, fere rectangularibus, flexiiosis, ramosis, inter se 

 conjunctis, reticulo obsoleto. 



Locality: Shag Point (Otago Museum). {Ex Coll. Geol. 

 Surv. Otago, 1862 ; Hector.] 



Corresponds on the one hand with Ficus lanceolata, Heer, 

 on the other with F. burhei, m., but is distinguished from 

 both by the stronger, closer secondary nerves, which start at 

 obtuse angles ; it is moreover distinguished from the last- 

 named species by the tertiary nerves, which start at nearly a. 



