jgg Contributions to the Fossil Quarternary Flora of Cyprus. 



a. In the deepest layer, that was accessible, at the foot of the brink. Fossils are not here 

 very numerous. Thvj are i^encrally scattered in tiie tufa, but at some places rather accumulated. The 

 following species were collected here: 



8mU(i.r aspcra L. Two leaves. 



Laurus nohilts L. Leaves, comparatively frequent. 



Plafanus urknfaJis L. Rather frequent. 



b. In the middler part of the tufa, at a level 5 m. below the surface. The tufa is here hard 

 and compact. Fossils numerous. 



Flcns caririi L. Fragment of a leaf. 

 Lmirm nohUia L. Leaves numerous. 

 Platanns orientalis L. Leaves very numerous. 



c. In the uppermost part of the tufa, at the level of the carriage-road. The tufa, which is here 

 of a much looser consistence, than in the deeper layers, contains immense numbers of beautiful impressions 

 of Plutantis- and other leaves. The following species were observed: 



Laurus nohilia L. Leaves, rare. 

 Plafanus orientalis L. Leaves, very abundantly. 

 Rhamnus ukoides L. A single leaf. 

 At present time no deposition of tufa takes place. There are no sources in the slopes above, 

 which might give occasion to the development of such a formation. 



Quite close to the locality described here, a little nearer the highest point of the road, at a place 

 where travellers usually rest in the shade of an overhanging rocky wall, I discovered another tinding-place 

 of fossil plant-impressions. The rock consists of a very hard and compact tufa; its nature reminds of the 

 deepest (and oldest) parts of the tufa-bad just described. Of fossils I only found here, besides some 

 branches of trees in a bad state of preservation, the following both species: 



Laurus nohilis L. Leaves. 



'fCeratunia Siliqiia L. A single leaflet. The determination is not quite sure. 



7\lso on the locky slopes above the village of La pit hos on the north-coast of Cyprus I observed 

 beds of calcareous tufa at several places.') At the season, when I visited the neighbourhood of Lapithos, 

 in the first days of June, I could not devote much time to the search of fossils, and I did not see any 

 very instructive profiles. Still I happened to find some little distinct impressions of leaves in the tufa at 

 various places, and I must recommend this region to future investigators of the fossil Quarternary flora 

 of the island. 



Here may be subjoined some particulars regarding the different species, represented in my collection 

 from the tufa-beds at Kazan: 



Smilax aspera L. (Fig. G5 a— b). Of this species were found— in the deepest part of the deposit 

 (niv. a)— two leaves, not quite complete but showing the outlines and nervature of the species distinctly. Their 

 length, measured from the bottom of the basal incision, is about .'58 mm. and their largei5t bredth ca. 25 mm. 

 No thorns can be seen along the margins, but also in the modern forms they are by far not always 



1) Tlii.s tufa is already mentioned with a few words liy A. Bekceat (Zur Geologie d. mass. Gesteine d. Insel Cypern, 

 p. 9), who does not, however, give any particulars regariUug- the fossil flora contained in it. 



