302 Transactions. — Geology. 



MORE^. 



Picus similis, sp. nov. 



Date XXXII., figs. 10, lOrt. 



F. foUis ])etioIatis rotiindato-ovalibus vel eUipticis, basl 

 siihacuiis, margine integerrimis ; nervatione camptodroma ; 

 nervo primario proniinente, recto ; nervis secundariis sub angnlis 

 65°-80° orientibns, numerosis, paullo arcuatls parallelis ; nervis 

 tertiariis e latere externo secundariorum sub angulis acutis 

 exeuntibus, ramosis inter se conjunctis, reticulum tenerrimum 

 inchidentibus. 



Locality: Wangapeka, Nelson (Otago Museum). [Ex 

 Coll. N.Z. Geol. Surv., 1867 ; Hector.] 



Corresponds in all its characteristics \vith Ficusjynx, Ung., 

 with the exception of the shorter petiole. The finest reticula- 

 tion seems to be more developed in the New Zealand species, as 

 shown in the enlargement (fig. 10a). On the whole the nerva- 

 tion is in this also verj^ similar to that of Ficus jynx. (Com- 

 pare "Tertiary Flora of Switzerland," vol. ii., pi. 85, fig. 8.) 

 The following are analogous species in the Chalk flora : F. 

 geinitzii, Ett., from Niederschona ; F. atavina, Heer, from 

 the x\tane strata of Greenland ; but especially F. magnolioi- 

 folia, Lesq., from the Dakota group. The latter species ap- 

 proaches Ficus jynx in a like inanner as the species described, 

 from which it is distinguished by the more ascending secondary 

 nerves. 



Laurine^. 

 Cinnamomum haastii, sp. nov. 



Plate XXXII., fig. 11. 



C. foliis coriaceis, ovalibus, basi obtusis, margine integer- 

 rimis; nervatione acrodroma, nervo primario prominente ; nervis 

 secundariis paucis, infimis suprabasilaribus curvatis, elongatis ; 

 nervis tertiariis trans versis, inter se remotis. 



Locality : Pakawau, Nelson (Canterbury INIuseum). [Ex 

 Coll. N.Z. Geol. Surv. ; Hector.] 



Approaches to Cinnamomum scheuclizcri , Heer, from which 

 it is distinguished only by the very much curved secondary 

 nerves, which start at less aciite angles. From these charac- 

 teristics, the obtuse base of the leaf and the lesser number of 

 the secondary nerves, the species of the New Zealand Chalk 

 flora may be distinguished on the one hand from G. inter- 

 medium, m., of the New Zealand Tertiary flora, and on the 

 other hand from the analogous Cinnamomiini Jieerii, Lesq., of 

 the North American Chalk flora. 



