I'j04 ADDITIONS TO THE FOSSIL FLORA OF EASTERN AUSTRALIA, 
The following are the abbreviated specific characters :• — 
^^NEIMITES AUSTRINA, Sp. nOV. 
(I^. XXXVTI.) 
Sp. Char. — Frond elongately expanding, bipinnate; rachis moder- 
ately broad, carinate. Pinnie subalternate, elongate, attenuating 
but slowly towards their apices, almost parallel-sided ; I’achis 
carinate, frequently zig-zag; pinnules petiolate, rather inequilateral, 
varying in shape on different parts^of the frond, but generally 
ovate or obovate-pyriform, sometimes a little sub-i lubricate, prox- 
imal or inner margins parallel to the rachis ; upper and distal 
margins b' oadly rounded, and all entire ; pinnules towards 
the apices of the pinme becoming more truly pyriform, or pyri- 
form-deltoid, the terminal leaflets being uni-, bi-, or trilobed ; 
pinnules of the lowest (preserved) pinnae lobate, the apical lobe 
more or less lanceolate. Petioles short and straight. Nerves well 
mai'ked, numerou.s, bi- or jjerhaps tiidichotomous. 
Loc. and Horizon. — I am indebted to Mr. James Smith, of 
Rockhampton, for an ojiportunity of describing this elegant fern. 
He states that it was found by Mr. A. E. Holmes, station manager, 
“ where the latitude of Springsure, and the longitude of Bogan- 
tungen intersect.” (According to Mr. R. L. Jack, this would be 
about Mount Budge on th e Drummond Range, Central Queens- 
2. Phlebopteris. 
The fern from the Ipswich Coal Measures, is certainly a member 
of the Dictyopteridie, and apparently referable to the genus 
Phlebopteris. 
This section, sometimes called a sub-oi’der, sometimes a family, 
is already represented in the uppermost Palmozoic and Lower 
^lesozoic rocks of Australia, by the genera Glossopteris, Sagenop- 
teris, and Gangamopteris. According to Scliimper, * the fronds are 
many times pinnate, or pinnatifid, and the nerves reticulate in 
some degree or other. 
* Traits de PaDontol. V^getale, 1S69, I. p. 62 1. 
