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Corpatres (Unger). 
Stem, a simple woody cylinder without medullary rays, but 
eomposed of radiating scalariform vessels, encircling a large 
pith with transverse lamellar partitions. Bark marked with 
leaf-scars. Leaves simple, sessile, very long, flat, parallel-sided, 
with broad clasping base, easily disarticulated from the stem, 
no midrib, but fine parallel neuration. 
Corpaires AvusTRALIS (M‘Coy). 
Leaves several inches long, thick, flattened, parallel-sided, 
with unequal, longitudinal, simple parallel strie; clasping 
base, slightly widened and bent a little downwards. Leaves at 
one inch from the base, about four or five lines wide; base 
about two to three lines wider. 
Localities.—TasMAnta—Mersey Basin (7). Victorra—Upper 
Devonian Flags, Iguana Creek. QUEENSLAND—Gympie, Drum- 
mond Range. N.S. WALEs—Mulimbimba. 
References.—M‘Coy, Geol. Survey, Vic., Dec., IV., 1876, p. 22, €. 
36, f. 6-7 ; Tenison-Woods, Proc. Lin. Soc., N.S. Wales, 1883, Vol. 
VIII, pt. 1, p. 155 ; R. Etheridge, jun., Cat. Aust. Fossils, 1878, 
p, 30. 
: Class.—CONIFER. 
Trees or shrubs, mostly with resinous secretions, the leaves 
are stiff, sometimes linear or needle-like, sometimes short and 
scale-like, or more rarely broad-lobed, or divided. The flowers 
are unisexual, either in cylindrical or short catkins, with closely 
packed scales, or the females are solitary. There is no 
perianth. The stamens in the males are either inserted on the 
axis of the catkin under the scales or the anther-cells are 
sessile, on the inside of the scales themselves, which then form 
part of the stamens. The ovules and seeds are naked, that is 
without ovary style cr pericarp, although sometimes more or 
less enclosed in two bracts, or in a fleshy or hardened disk. 
The seeds are albuminous with one, or sometimes several 
embryos in the centres, each embryo having sometimes more 
than two cotyledons. (Tenison-Woods). 
Localities.—TASMANIA—Upper Coal Measures and Lower Coal 
Measures, silicified trunks abundant. See also :— 
Taxites medius, Tenison-Woods (ibid, l.c., p. 160, Queensland). 
Sequoites (?) Australis, Tenison-Woods (ibid, Le., p. 162, 
Queensland). 
Walchia Milneana, Tenison-Woods (ibid, 1.c., p. 163, Queensland). 
Cunninghamites Australis, Tenison-Woods (ibid, Le, p. 165, 
Queensland). 
Aracaurites polycarpa, Tenison-Woods (ibid, le, p. 165, 
Queensland), 
