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closely resembling that of Beania. The affinity of the genus is^ 

 considered at length in the account of the species B. gracilis. 

 Some imperfect fragments recently described by Shirley froni 

 Ipswich, Queensland, as Beania geminata, are too indefinite to bfr 

 determined.' 



Beania gracilis, Carruthers. 



[Geol. Mag. vol. vi. p. 1, pi. iv. fig. 1, 1869.] 



(PI. IX. Fig. 11.) 



1835. Sphareda paradoxa, Lindley & Hutton, Foss. Flor. toI. iii. pi. clix- 

 fig. 2. 



1849. Sphtereda paradoxa, Brongniart, Tableau, p. 105. 



1850. Spheereda paradoxa, Unger, Gen. spec, plant, foss. p. 520. 



1864. Sphtereda paradoxa, Leckenby, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xx. p. 76. 



1869. Beania gracilis, Carrutbers, Geol. Mag. vol. vi. p. 1, pi. iv. fig. 1. 



1870. Beania gracilis, Scbimper, Trait, pal. veg. vol. ii. p. 206. 

 1872. Beania gracilis, Balfour, Palajont. Botany, p. 82, pi. ii. fig. 2. 



1875. Splwereda paradoxa, Phillips, Geol. Yorks. p. 233, pi. viii. fig. 2,_ 



lign. 68. 

 1875. Beania gracilis, Saporta, Pal. Fran9. vol. ii. pp. 59, 63, pi. Ixxvii.- 



fig. 3. 

 1881. Beania gracilis, Renault, Coiu's foss. bot. vol. i. p. 58, pl. vi. fig. 5. 

 1885. Beania gracilis, Zigno, Flor. foss. Oolit. vol. ii. p. 153. 

 1892. Beania gracilis, Fox-Strangways, Tab. Foss.- p. 137. 

 1898. Zamiostrobus [Beania, Carr.), Potonie, Lebrbuch, p. 278, fig. 274. 

 1900. Beania gracilis, Seward & Gowan, Annals Bot. vol. xiv. p. 143. 



Type-specimen. No. 45,040, British Museum (PI. IX. Fig. 11).. 

 Type of Phillips' fig. 2, pl. viii. {Geol. Yorks.), in the York 

 Museum. Type of Lindley & Hutton, in the Oxford Museum. 



A central, fairly stout woody axis, bearing scattered and loosely 

 disposed secondary axes at right angles to the main axis ; these 

 secondary axes, which are probably of the nature of carpophylls, 

 have the form of slender pedicels terminating in a peltate distal 

 expansion, on the inner side of which are borne two oval or sub- 

 spherical seeds with a fieshy outer coat. 



The original diagnosis given by Carruthers is as follows: — " Axis- 

 of the female inflorescence slender ; scales or slender stalks placed 



1 Sliirley (98), pl. xx. p. 16. 



