anything else that we can find, that we feel compelled to treat it as an unrecorded 

 species of this genus, and perhaps therefore the last representative of this dying*out 

 family in Europe. 



HAKEA ANGULATA Sp. nov. 

 PI. VI, figs. 9 a, b. 



FOLLICULUS PARVUS, CRASSISSIMUS, DURISSIMUS VALDEQUE OSSEUS, BASI ACUTUS, 

 SUPERNE OBLIQUE DILATATUS LATERALITERQUE COMPRESSUS, PARTE DIMIDIA INFERIORE VALDE 

 BICOSTATUS VEL BIANGULATUS, MEDIO ALTIUS EXCAVATUS, SUPERNE IRREGULARITER STRIATUS. 



Follicle small, very thick hard and bony, pointed below obliquely widened 

 and laterally compressed above, strongly 2*ribbed or angled in the lower half, deeply 

 indented in the middle, irregularly striate above; interior showing deep pit for seed 

 and impression of wing above. 



Length 7 mm., breadth 4 mm. Brunssum. 



The hilum appears to be apical towards the convex side, the micropyle basal. 

 The endocarp shows, as in the living Hakea, an inside striate lining composed of 

 elongate fusiform cells, the side walls of which are thick and cord*like. 



Though this fruit is unusually small for a Hakea it bears great resemblance to 

 living species. Most of the species have the fruit and seed straight (H . saligna, figs. 10 a, b), 

 or nearly so; but we observe in Kew Herbarium at least two species with a similar bend, 

 in the one case towards the dorsal side in the other towards the ventral. The curious 

 obliquity in the upper part of the fruit and in the wing of the seed forms therefore no 

 difficulty in the reference of our fossil to Hakea. 



The exceptional smallness of the fruit is remarkable; but this is a character met 

 with again and again in those members of the Reuverian flora which were lingerers 

 belonging to orders no longer surviving in Europe. We notice it for instance in EpU 

 premnum, Nelumbium, Liriodendron apteva, and in the Anonaceous genus Jongmansia. 



SANTALACEAE. 



PYRULARIA EDULIS A. DC. 

 PL XIV, fig. 5. 



A single specimen of a large endocarp was sent to us from Reuver. Unfortunately 

 it had been allowed to dry, had fallen to pieces, and was cracked all over. We hardened 

 and mended as well as we could; but much of it is missing or cannot be joined, and the 

 fruit is not in a satisfactory state for photography. 



Endocarp globose, crustaceous but rather thin*walled, surface badly preserved; 

 inside showing at the base the large boss which supports the central free placenta, and 

 at the apex a circular area differing in texture from the rest of the endocarp. 



Length 28 mm., breadth 27 mm. Reuver. 



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