218 BRACH YPHYLLTJH. 



V. 3180. PI. XVII. Fig. 3. 



This thicker branch resembles a small cycadean axis with well- 

 marked bases of petioles. Probably it is a portion of B. spinosum. 

 At the edges of the cast there are here and there the impressions 

 of the narrow distal ends of scale leaves ; also at one place there 

 is shown the point of attachment of a lateral branch. Length 

 15cm.; diameter 1 '5 cm. Ecclesbourne. Rujford Coll. 



V. 2750. PL XVII. Figs. 5 and 5a. 



A small piece of a branch, showing clearly preserved leaves 

 with longitudinal striations (5). At each end there projects the 

 impression of the woody axis, or possibly of a large pith-cavity, 

 such as one finds in the genus Araucaria. It is difficult, not to 

 say impossible, to distinguish between fragments of this species 

 and those of B. obesum. 



V. 2746ff. Axis 13cm. long, showing the clearly defined out- 

 lines of short and broad leaves. Immediately above and below 

 the point of attachment of a spinous branch, there are impressions 

 of much more slender leafy twigs. Ecclesbourne. liuffurd Coll. 



? Br achy phy Hum spinosum. 



V. 2296. PI. XVII. Fig. 2. 



The broad leaves of this specimen show very clearly the fine 

 striations similar to those already noted, and identical with the 

 surface characters represented by Saporta in species of Pagio- 

 phyllum and Brachyphyllum. 



V. 2750, V. 2751. Fragments. Ecclesbourne. Rufford Coll. 

 Brachyphyllum obesum, Heer. 



1881. Brachyphyllum obesum, Heer, Secc. Trab. Geol. Portugal, p. 20, pi. xvii. 



figs. 1-4. 

 1889. ? Brachyphy Hum crassicaule, Fontaine, Potomac Flora, p. 221, pi. 100, 



fig. 4 ; pi. cix. figs. 1-7. 

 1894. Brachyphyllum obesum, Saporta, Flor. foss. Port. pp. 112, 138, pi. xxi. 



figs. 1-7 ; pi. xxvii. figs. 7 and 8. 

 Brachyphyllum obesiforme, Saporta, loc. cit. p. 176, pi. xxxi. figs. 12 



and 13. 

 Brachyphyllum obesiforme var. elongatum, Saporta, loc. cit. p. 176, 



pi. xxxi. _ fig. 14. 



