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Protoficus, two Magnolia, a Liriodendropsis, a lauraceous form, a 



rhamnaceous fruit, and considerable material of a new species, Nelum- 



bium schweinfurthi. 



From the Upper Cretaceous Mungo-schichten of the Kamerun in 



western Africa Menzel 1 has described traces of a small but interesting 



flora of very modern type. The species enumerated are : 



Artocarpium guillemainii Menzel 

 Combretiphyllum acuminatum Menzel 

 Leguminosites albizzioides Menzel 

 Phyllites sp. Menzel 



Kitson 2 mentions the extensive development of marine and estuarine 

 Cretaceous in southern Nigeria. He collected rather fragmentary 

 remains of plants, mostly dicotyledons. These are deposited in the 

 British Museum and have thus far yielded one identifiable species, Typha- 

 cites kitsoni. 3 



Negri * has recently described the two following species, based on petri- 

 fied wood, from what he calls the Middle Cretaceous of Tripoli: 



Dadoxylon zuffardii 

 Protocedroxylon paronai 



Europe 



SWEDEN 



The late Upper Cretaceous sea spread a mantle of marine, inverte- 

 brate-bearing sediments over the southern extremity of the Scandinavian 

 peninsula. Many years ago Nilsson 5 described a small flora discovered in 

 the greensand at Kopinge, Sweden. 



1 Menzel, P., Fossile Pflanzenreste aus den Mungo-schichten bei Kamerun. 

 Abh. k. preuss. geol. Landes. Neue Folge. Heft 62, 1909, pp. 399-404, pi. ii. 



2 Kitson, A. E., Geographical Journal, Jan., 1913. 



3 Stopes, M. C, A new Cretaceous Plant from Nigeria. Geol. Mag. N. S. dec. 

 6, vol. i, pp. 433-435, tf. 1, pi. xxxiii, 1914. 



4 Negri. G. Sopra alcumi legni fossili dell Gebel Tripolitano. Boll. Soc. Geol. 

 Ital., vol. xxxiii, 1914, pp. 321-344, pis. v, vi. 



5 Nilsson, S., Sur quelques vegetaux terrestres fossiles, qui se trouvent dans 

 le gres vert en Scanie. Kgl. Svenska.-Akad. Handl. Bd. i, 1824. 



Nilsson, S., Petrificata suecana formationis cretacea?. Lund, 1827. 



