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Ottelia preeterita, F. v. M. 
_ By Baron von Mutuxr, K.C.M.G., M.D., P.H.D., F.RS, 
Government Botanist, Victoria. 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S. W., 5 November, 1879.] - 
Leaves large, from a roundish blunt base, oblong-elliptical ; their 
midrib prominent ; their lateral nerves spreading rectangularly, 
forming with the longitudinal nerves large,regularly quadrangular, 
lated areoles. 
Under the above paleontographic designation it is here ven- 
tured to define the remnants of a solitary leaf-impression, kindly 
palzontography) may justify, also in this case, the choice of a 
temporary name for this certainly remarkable and conspicuous 
fossil. Itis with less hesitation, that to this scanty remnant of a 
, of which hitherto very few fossil species are on reco 
é végétale, ii. 44 the eocene estone of the 
environs e great French metropolis ; , Professo 
Squereux, in the Reports of the United States Geological 
Surveys, 1874, p. 300 et 1878, p. 98 pl fig. 8, rendered 
as 0. americana. ; 
When already so many other instances are known of plants to 
occur of prevailing or even exclusive Australian type (such as 
Casuarina, various Proteace, &e.) among the tertiary fossils of 
of the Parisian species, as well as its Australian supposed foss1 
congener, remain yet unknown, to render their exact systematic 
Position indisputable. The degree of 
