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_ Pecopteris acuta. Fig. 30 (2) of Hector’s Catalogue is a small 
fragment of a frond of Cladophlebis, far too incomplete to merit 
specific distinction, and is thus best termed Cladophlebis sp. The 
‘specific name ‘acuta’ could not stand in any case, as the term 
Pecopteris acuta had been used long previously by Brongniart for 
another plant. 
Pecopteris linearis. Fig. 30 (3) of the same work is a reduced 
and very inaccurate drawing of a frond probably identical with 
Cladophlebis australis (Morris). 
Vertebraria nove-zealandiew. Fig. 30 (4) is a restored sketch 
of a very obscure specimen which it is quite impossible to determine 
even generically. It certainly has nothing whatever in common 
with Vertebraria, and this name must in future be excluded from 
lists of the fossil plants of New Zealand. 
Tamtes maitar. Fig. 30 (5) is founded on a very small fragment 
of Coniferous branch, probably identical with Palissya conferta 
(Old. and Morr.) first figured in 1862. 
Pecopteris ovata. Fig. 30 (6) is again a small fragment of a 
frond of Cladophlebis, and, although I have not seen the original 
specimen, I have no doubt that it is best described as C. sp. This 
name P. ovata was also used long previously for a quite different 
plant by Brongniart. 
Pecopteris obtusata. Fig. 30 A (1) appears to represent a distinct 
species of Cladophlebis, which will have to be renamed later on. 
Hector’s name P. obtusata had already been occupied by a quite 
different plant, described by Presl in 1833. 
_Camptopteris incisa. Fig. 30 A (8) almost certainly represents 
a small portion of the frond of Dictyophyllum acutilobum 
(Braun). 
Next, we have six specimens from the Mataura Falls, in the 
province of Southland. 
Macrotemopteris lata. Fig. 30 A (4) of Hector’s Catalogue is 
undoubtedly Twmiopterts crassinervis (Feistm.) first described from 
the Rajmahal Group of India in 1877. It is certainly not 
Temopteris lata (Old. and Morr.). 
Lomarites pectenata. Fig. 30 A (5) represents a species of 
Gleichenites, allied to, but perhaps specifically distinct from, the 
Indian Gleichenites gleichenoides (Old. and Morr.) and may for 
the present be regarded as a distinct species Gleichenites pectinata 
(Hector). 
Taxites manawao. Fig. 30 A (6) represents a plant which 
appears to be undoubtedly Pagiophyllum peregrinum (L. and H.), 
well known in the earlier Mesozoic rocks of England and the 
Continent. 
Pierophyllum matauriensis. Fig. 30 A (7) appears to me to 
be a distinct species, though somewhat similar to some of the 
