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good (figure 25), and show that the leaves were five in numher, from a prominent hut short 

 base, and that they were rather stout and at least 17 cm long. 



FlQ 25. Finns trunculus, Dn. 

 Leaves from the Tranquille River, x yi. 



At Quilchena the same leaves are found in a much more fragmented condition, but they 

 present precisely the aspect of the leaves figured by Heer from the Miocene of Spitzbergen. 

 These specimens were collected by Ells and Johnston in 1904, but in the collections of 



