128 Mr Arber, On the earlier ; 
Pterophyllums of the Jurassic rocks of the Rajmahal Hills of 
India, This species may thus stand for the present. 
Sphenopteris asplenoides. Fig. 30 A (8) represents a small 
fragment of a Sphenopteris frond, the original of which I haye 
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not seen. The specific name cannot in any case be retained, for 
it had been previously applied to another plant by Sternberg, as 
far back as 1826. 
Tastes kahikatea. Fig. 30 A (11) represents a small fragment — 
of a Coniferous branch, the type of which appears to have been — 
lost. Judging by the figure, it would appear to be impossible to 
refer this plant with certainty to any genus, and thus I should, for 
the present at any rate, be inclined to omit this determination — 
from any list of New Zealand fossils. 
Lastly we have three species from Waikawa. 
Tastes manawao. Fig. 30 A (2) represents a specimen which — 
I have not seen, but which I imagine is probably identical with 
Palissya tenwifolia (McCoy) first described from New South Wales 
in 1847. This name (see above) was applied to two quite distinct 
plants by Hector in this Catalogue. | 
Pecopteris grandis. Fig. 30 A (3), the original of which I 
have not seen, no doubt represents a portion of a frond of 
Cladophlebis australis (Morr.). 
Asplenites paleopteris, Unger. Fig. 30 A (10), which again 
I have not seen the original of, is a fragment of a Sphenopteris, 
which bears a considerable resemblance to fig. 6, Plate I of Unger’s 
memoir, and is very possibly correctly referred to Unger’s species — 
by Hector. Unger’s plant has been already discussed on p. 125. 
We see therefore that even if we are inclined to accept 15 of 
the 16 plants, first figured but not described by Hector in 1886, 
as published types, six of them had been previously recorded from 
other regions, and at the most only six others are likely to stand 
as first records. 
Ettingshausen’s Records (1887). 
In 1887 Ettingshausen* discussed the floras of five localities, 
Mount Potts, the Malvern Hills, Haast Gully (Clent Hills), 
Mataura and Waikawa, and included long lists consisting for the 
most part of new species. All these are however nomina nuda, 
and as regards the pre-Cretaceous floras this paper is best 
neglected. Some of these names had been previously published 
in the preceding year in a paper by Haastt. 
* Vide ante. P ‘ 
+ Haast, Trans. and Proc. New Zeal. Inst. Vol. x1x. for 1886, p. 449, 1887. 
