XLIX] PODOCARPITBS 407 



Gardner^ has described examples of this species from the Middle 

 Bagshot beds of Bournemouth, the Lower Bagshot of Alum Bay 

 in the Isle of Wight, and from other British localities. A good 

 impression from Bournemouth is reproduced in fig. 792, B : the 

 leaf is 7 cm. long and 3 mm. broad, the apex is sharply pointed 

 and there is no petiole. Fig. 792, C shows a leaf of slightly different 

 form which may belong to the species.' No reproductive organs 

 have been found. Ettingshausen^ records specimens of this type 

 froni Eocene beds at Haring in the Austrian Tyrol where the 

 species is said to bet abundant, from Leoben* in Styria, Bilin* in 

 Bohemia, Sagor in Carinthia*, and elsewhere. Heer^ states that 

 the species is common in Swiss Eocene deposits and Engelhardt^ 

 describes examples from Oligocene rocks in Bohemia. A similar 

 or perhaps specifically identical type was figured by Lindley^ from 

 ■ Eocene plant-beds at Aix in Provence as Podocarpus macrophylla, 

 but Saporta', who figured additional specimens from the same 

 locality, proposed the name Podocarpus Lindleyana on the ground 

 that Lindley's designation implies identity with a recent species. 

 A leaf referred to P. eocaenica is figured by Massalongo^" from 

 Tertiary beds in Italy. 



Some vegetative shoots originally described by De la Harpe^^ 

 from Alum Bay as Cupressites elegans are referred by Gardner^^ to 

 Podocarpus and this determination derives support from the variety 

 in the foliage illustrated by his specimens: in some branches the 

 linear leaves are two-ranked while in others the leaves are spirally 

 disposed and three-sided, a diversity met with in recent species. 

 The imperfectly preserved fragment reproduced in fig. 793 from a 

 careful drawing by Miss Woodward of the actual specimen is 

 figured by Gardner as a fertile branch bearing a single seed with 



1 Gardner (86) p. 48, PI. n. figs. 6—15. 



2 Ettingshausen (55) p. 37, PI. ix. figs. 14, 15. 

 » Ibid. (88^) p. 277. 



« Ibid. (672) p. 118, PI. xin. figs. 1, 2. 



° Ibid. (85) p. 6, PI. XXVIII. fig. 12. 



« Heer (55) A. p. 53, PI. xx. fig. 3. 



' Engelhardt (85) p. 315, PI. vni. figs. 37, 38. 



8 Lindley in Murchison and Lyell (29) p. 298, fig. A. 



» Saporta (62) p. 216, PI. n. fig. 7. 

 i» Massalongo (59) p. 166, PI. v. fig. 36. 

 " De la Harpe in Bristow (62) p. HI, PI. v. fig. 3. 

 " Gardner (86) PI. vin. 



