Mesuzoic Cual Simla.} PAL^(_)NTOLOGY OF VICTORIA. IPtants. 



linear, narrow, elliptically pointed at apex, about 5 lines long, and ^ a line wide ; 

 midrib distinct, witb fine parallel longitudinal strife. 



At first siolit this resembles the Zamites taxinea of the Yorkshu'c 

 Oolites, but is still smaller and eveu more like a yew from the 

 distinctness of the midrib ; it differs more essentially in the 

 contracted base and oblique insertion of the leaflets. The strong 

 midrib approximates the species to Cycadites^ but it varies in some 

 pinnaj, and the contracted oblique base of the pinnae prevents a 

 reference to that genus. 



This plant is not so common as the other Gymnosperms in the 

 coal shale at Bellarine, where I have seen about half a dozen 

 specmiens. 



Explanation of riouHES. 



Plate VIII. — Fig. 3, Rpcoimeii, natur.al size. Fig. 3a, portion highly magnified to show the 

 striation. Fig. 36, one of the pinnules magnified four diameters. 



Frederick McCoy. 



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