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DESCRIPTION. 



CCCXXVI. E. Howitti Deane. 



In Rec. Geol. Surv. Vict., vol. i, Part I, p. 24, Plate iii, .fig. 10, Plate iv, fig. 2. 

 From Berwick, Victoria. 



Following is the original description : — 



Leaves oblique, almos''. cordate at base, lateral veins transverse, intramarginal vein conspicuous. 

 . . . . They seem to belong to species with opposite leaves, or to be leaves of seedlings or suckers. 

 these being often cordate or rounded at the base. 



" One of the most important assemblages of fossil leaves of the Older Tertiary 

 series is that found under the floor of Wilson's bluestone quarry at Berwick, Gippsland. 

 These leaf-bearing beds are described by A. E. Eitson as ' yellow, white, black and 

 brown soft clays and sandy clays, some of them containing leaves of dicotyledonous 

 plants in great abundance.' ... By the almost equal proportion of Eucalyptus 

 leaves of the wide-angled, parallel-veined (archaic) type, and those in which the 

 veins are acutely disposed to the midrib, one cannot help concluding that the flora is 

 somewhere in the mid-stage of development, and precludes the idea of one so old 

 even as the Eocene." (Chapman, p. 117.) 



DESCRIPTION. 



CCCXIVII. E. Kitsoni Deane. 



In Rec. Geol. Surv. Vict., vol. i, Part I, p. 25, Plate iv, figs. 5, 6. 7. 



Following is the original description : — 



Leaves long and linear, probably 5 inches in length and -§ inch in width, nearly straight. Lateral 

 veins proceeding from the midrib at an angle of about 40 deg., close together, straight and parallel. Intra- 

 marginal vein close to the edge. 



These leaves are considered to resemble E. Hennani Deane and E. Hayi Ett. 



(See Part XXVIII, p. 164, of the present work, where I correct the nomenclature 

 of a living species to which I had given the name E. Kitsoni.) 



