VON Ettingshausen. — Fossil Flora of New Zealand. tiSl 



maplo leaf corresponds to the variety nauiod, a difference 

 might be based upon this characteristic. Finally, the serra- 

 tions are more delicate, and the upper secondary nerves some- 

 what more bent upwards, than in Acer trilohatum. More 

 ample material for research must settle if the differences 

 named are valid. 



SAPINDACEiB. 



Sapindus subfalcifolius, sp. nov. 



Plato XXVIII., iig. 3 ; Plate XXIX., fig. 2. 



<S'. joliolis rnonbranaceis, ■petiolulatis, anguste lanceolatis 

 acuminatis suhfalcatis, basi angustatis, marginc intcgcrrimis ; 

 hervatione camptodromar, nervo primario prominentc ; nervis 

 seciDidariis tenuihus sub angulis 60^-70'^ orientibus, arcuatis ad- 

 scendentibus, inter se coiijunclis ; nervds tcrtiariis obsoletis. 



Locality : Eedcliffe Gully (Canterbury Museum). [Ex 

 roll. Geol. Surv. Cant. ; v. Haast.] 



The similarity of the fossil leaves shown in figs. 2 and 8 

 with the leaflets of Sapindus falcifoUus, A. Braun, is so very 

 remarkable that, if these fossils had been unearthed out of 

 European Tertiary strata, no one would hesitate to ascribe 

 them to the species named. However, I do not venture upon 

 the badly-preserved remains before me to pronounce their 

 identity with S. falcifoUus. 



CELAST11INE.E. • 



Elseodendron rigidum, sp. nov. 



Plato XXIX., fig. 1. 



F. foliis rigide coriaccis, brcviter jJetiolatis, oblongo-cllipticifi, 

 basi attenuatis, apice rotundaio-obtusis, viargine minute crenn- 

 latts ; ncrvatione camptodroma, nervo priraario valido, recto. 

 excurrente; nervis sccundariis sub angulis 40''-50'^ oricniibiii> : 

 tertiarlis obso le tis . 



Locality : Landslip Hill (Otago ]\Iuseum). [iJo^Coll. Olago 

 •Geol. Surv., 1862; Hector.] 



An oblong elliptical leaf witli a petiole, which has left sucli 

 uii impression as leads one to conclude that it must have 

 had a remarkably stiff leathery consistency. The petiole is 

 short, somcv.hat bent to one side ; the lamina is somewhat 

 narrowed at the base, but at the top bluntly rounded off; the 

 edge is provided with small notches, which are close to- 

 gether. In consequence of the unfavourable nature of the 

 stone, nothing is visible of the nervation except the strong 

 straight primary nerve, which is very pronounced nearly as 

 far as the top of the leaf. From this primary nerve start at 

 the middle distance of 1cm. and at acute angles a few second- 

 ary nerves. 



