FOSSILS OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 715 
Genus NOEGGERATHIA.—We here refer certain spatulate leaves, having the fol- 
lowing characters: Sesszle ; no midrib ; veins straight, close, slightly divergent, and occa- 
sionally connected transversely. ‘They evidently belong to Noeggerathia, as this genus 
is laid down by Goeppert in Tchihatcheff’s L’Altai Oriental, p. 384, whose species are 
nearly identical with those of Australia. The ieaves differ only in not being pinnate. 
They usually occur singly and are nowhere abundant. In one specimen there are a 
number of them proceeding from a common base, as if a cluster of leaves growing 
together, and perhaps at the extremity of a branch. In general appearance they resemble 
the leaves of the broad-leaved pine, Damara australis. Goeppert considers the species to 
be allied most nearly to Cyclopteris. 
A species of this genus is referred by Morris to the genus Zeugophyllites of Brongniart, 
But it is obvious from our specimens that the leaves are not petiolate, neither is it probable 
that such a cluster could have belonged to a plant of the palm kind. 
NoEGGERATHIA SPATULATA (Dana).—Leaves rather short spatulate, obtuse, triangular 
at apex, and subacute ; narrow at base, and gradually widening ; venation very fine, rather 
indistinct, 4 or 5 veins in a breadth of a line.—Plate 12, fig. 9, a cluster of leaves, radiating 
from a common base, each nearly 24 inches long. 
District of Hlawarra, 
In this cluster, which is evidently a natural group, the leaves are of different ages. The 
younger are quite narrow oblanceolate, (length five times the greatest breadth,) and have 
a tapering apex. The older are nearly an inch broader towards the apex; the base of 
the largest is but little over 14 lines; and from this base they widen till within half an 
inch of the apex. The centre from which the leaves radiate, has a shining coaly aspect, 
as if a soft bud, or vegetable base of some thickness had been pressed down and carbon- 
ized. The same specimen contains a portion of another similar group. 
NorccEerRATuHta MEDIA (Dana).—Elongate lanceolate, tapering towards the base, and 
broadest within an inch of the apex. Extremity subtriangular and apex rounded. Veins 
a little divergent, about 15 to half an inch. One leaf 5 inches long, about an inch wide 
within an inch of apex, and a fourth of an inch at base ; another shorter.—Plate 12, fig. 
10, natural size. May this be the NV. egualis of Goeppert, loc. cit., plate 27, fig, 7 ? 
Newcastle, mouth of Hunter River. 
Noxrcceratura ELONGATA (J. Morris) Dana.—In this species, found at Newcastle, 
the venations are more distant than in the preceding. In Morris’s figure, they are nearly 
half a line apart; and in one specimen in our collections they are to 2 of a line apart. 
The form is represented by Morris as widest towards the base. But the cluster of the 
spatulata, figure 9, shows that the form varies much according to age. The length is 
6 inches or more. The species may be identical with the Noeggerathia distans of 
Goeppert, loc. cit., plate 28, figure 8, 
Zeugophyllites elongatus, J. Morris, in Strzelecki’s New South Wales, p. 250, pl. 6, figs. 5, 5a. 
Norr.—In a fragment of a leaf of uncertain character, the venations are straight, as 
in the above, very distinct, and nearly a line apart. Plate 12, fig. 11. This is near a 
species referred to Calamites by Goeppert, loc. cit., plate 26, figure 3. 
SPHENOPTERIS LOBIFOLIA (Morris).—Plate 12, fig. 12. Natural size. 
Newcastle. 
