THE 



AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 



[FOURTH SERIES.] 



Art. XXIII. — The Geological History of the Australian 



Flowering Plants; by E. C. Andrews, Sydney, Xew South 



Wales, Australia. 



Table of Contents. 



Introduction 

 I. The Problem stated 



II. The significance of the present relationships existing be- 

 tween families and orders of the flowering plants 



III. The difficulty attendant on the determination of fossil flower- 



ing plants by leaf remains only 



IV. General geographical conditions ; transport of plants, dis- 



tribution of mammals 



(a) Cretaceous and Post-Cretaceous geography and climate 



(b) The transport of plants and the distribution of mammals 



(1) The transport of plants 



(2) The distribution of mammals 



V. The development of the Australian Angiosperms 



(a) The Tropical Problem 



(1) Distribution of Acacia, Cassia, Vernonia, Xanthoxylum 



(2) Leguminosse 



(3) Myrtaceae 



(4) Kutaceae 



(5) Euphorbiacese, Labiatse, Verbenaceae, Sterculiaceae, Pit- 



tosporaceae, Tremandraeeae, Liliaceas 



(6) Orchidaceae 



(b) The South African Problem 



(1) General remarks on supposed land connections of South 



Africa with Australia 



(2) Proteaceas 



(3) Compositse 



(4) Ericaceae and Epacridaceae 



(5) Campanulaceae, Lobeliaceae, Goodeniaceae and Candol- 



leaceas 



(c) The South American Problem 



(1) General discussion as to supposed land connections of 



South America with South Africa, New Zealand and 

 Australia 



(2) On certain unexplained peculiarities of angiospermous 



distribution in South America, Australasia and New 

 Zealand 



Am. Jour. Sci. — Fourth Series, Vol. XLII, No. 249. — September, 1916. 

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