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some are considered to possibly belong to other genera, 

 but those recorded as Eucalypts are distributed somewhat 

 as follows : — Those showing the transverse venation have 

 been recorded from Oxley near Brisbane 1 in latitude 27J% 

 to Tasmania, and those with the oblique venation, from 

 northern New South Wales to southern Victoria, though 

 one or two of the Brisbane specimens show the beginning 

 of the latter venation. A typical form of the oblique vena- 

 tion, E. Pluti, McCoy, has been found near Daylesford 

 in Victoria in Miocene beds. 



Mr. H. Deane has described what he regards as probably 

 a Eucatyptus fossil, from a specimen discovered at Morn- 

 ing ton, towards the extreme south of Victoria, under the 

 name of E. prcecoriacea.* It has the parallel venation of 

 the living E. eoriacea, but also much resembles a phyllo- 

 dineous Acacia or a Hakea as suggested by Mr. Deane. 

 The same author has also described several species from 

 the fossil flora of Berwick in about latitude 38°, but these 

 belong chiefly to the section which has leaves with the 

 early oblique venation, the lateral veins being usually 

 arranged in these specimens at angles of from 40 to 65° or 

 rarely 70° with the midrib. The Mornington and Berwick 

 beds are doubtfully referred to the Eocene period. 3 



Mr. F. Chapman, a.l.s., in writing of some fossils of 

 probably Janjukian or Miocene age, from Wannon Falls, 

 Redruth, Western Victoria, says " Several fragments of 

 long, ovate, pointed leaves, can without doubt be referred 

 to the genus Eucalyptus. Their venation differs from those 

 of the fossil species described by McCoy and Ettingshausen, 

 in having remarkably long and sub-parallel veins ; and very 

 closely agree with the leaves of E. amygdalina."* 



1 Baron von Ettingshausen, Denks. K. Akad. Wissen. Wien., Math.- 

 Naturw. CI. lxii, p. 48, (1895). 



2 Records Geol. Sur., Victoria, 1902, p. 20. 



3 A. E. Kitson, p.g.8., Eec. Geol. Sur., Victoria, 1902, p. 52. 

 * Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 1910, p. 25. 



D— May 7, 1913. 



