(75) 
Banksia Linn. f. Suppl. 15. 1781. 
The existing species number about fifty and are confined 
to the Australian region. Two fossil species have been iden- 
tified from American strata, but whether or not they are al- 
lied to the living Bankszae is not altogether certain. 
BANKSIA PUSILLA Velen. 
Banksia pusilla Velen. F\. Boehm. Kreidef. 7 (32). pl. 7 
(9). f. 14-17. 1883. Hollick, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 
6: 132. pl. 73. f. 7. 1897. 
With the exception of Banksia Helvetica Heer, which 
Lesquereux records from the Eolignitic of Mississippi, this 
genus is not found elsewhere on this continent, although spe- 
cies referred to this and the allied genus Banksites occur in 
the European Tertiary. It is essentially a later genus, with 
upwards of fifty existing species which are all confined to 
the Australian region. The above species is very similar to 
Santalum Americanum Lesq. (Cret. & Tert. Fl. p/7. 32. f. 7) 
of the western Tertiary. 
NYMPHAEACEAE. 
NeE.tumso Adans. Fam. Pl. 2: 76. 1763. 
But two living species are known, JV. Velumdéo (L.) Karst. 
of eastern Asia and JV. lutea (Willd.) Pers. of eastern North 
America, giving emphasis to the well-known similarity of 
these two floras. The genus appeared in the middle Creta- 
ceous and ranges to the Miocene Tertiary, increasing regu- 
larly in size. There are one Asiatic, seven European and 
nine American fossil species,* all of the American species, 
unless it be Heer’s from Atane, being from a considerably 
higher horizon than our Cliffwood specimen. 
Exceptions to the latter statement are unpublished species 
from Long Island and Martha’s Vineyard, discovered by Dr. 
Hollick. 
Nelumbo primaeva sp. nov. Fl. 43. f. 1 
This is undoubtedly a sorton of a leaf a Nelumbo — too 
* The living fossil species are enumerated by Hollick in Bull. Torrey 
Club, 21: 307. 1894. 
