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seen in the very best preserved leaves, their absence in the Indian specimens may 
well depend on the preservation. The specimen seen in fig. 29, pi. 8, shows a very 
early stage of branching, the lateral shoots being still very short, with minute leaves. 
Feistmantel (1879, pi. 14, fig. 3) gives a strikingly similar figure of a specimen 
in a somewhat later stage. On the whole it must be admitted that the differences 
between the Antarctic and the Indian plants are too slight for specific separation. 
In the same species should be included also P. australis (M’Coy) as figured by 
Stirling (/. c). 
Elatocladus jabalpurensis (Feistm.). 
PI. 9, fig. 8. 
Palissya jabalpurensis, Feistmantel 1877 c, p. 16; pi. 9; pi. lO, fig. i. — 1879, p. 27; pi. 12, figs. 4 — 5. 
The species named by Feistmantel Palissya jabalpurensis seems to be re- 
presented in the Hope Bay flora by one single specimen. There is no ground what- 
ever for referring sterile branches of this kind to the genus Palissya. It is altogether 
impossible to form any idea regarding its affinities, so the best thing is no doubt to 
record the species under the provisional generic name Elatocladus. 
The single specimen existing is rather fragmentary, and consists only of a por- 
tion of one simple branch with a small number of leaves attached. There is such a 
striking resemblance to Feistmantel’.S figures, however, that a specific identity is 
very highly probable. The shoot has a dorsiventral symmetry, the leaves being 
spread out to two sides, but those of the right hand side are nearly all gone. The 
leaves form a wide (but far from right) angle with the axis. In shape, as well as 
in manner of arrangement, they agree perfectly with those of Palissya jabalpurensis. 
Even the fragmentary state of the specimen, in regard to the preservation of the leaves, 
is not without a parallel in the Indian specimens: it is, indeed, quite a feature of 
the latter, that the leaves have been to some extent detached before fossilization. 
Allowing for the uncertainty always involved in determinations of sterile coni- 
ferous branches, especially when not better preserved than the present specimen, it 
seems best to refer the latter to the Indian species mentioned. 
Elatocladus sp. 
Rl. 9, figs. 7 — 7 b. 
Conf. Palissya Braunii Endl., Saport.v 18S4, pi. 68. 
The small coniferous branch shown in pi. 9. fig. 7, has a very characteristic 
habit; but being sterile, it cannot be determined generically. 
The specimen represents, to all appearances, a short shoot which has been shed 
entire from the main axis. This idea is at least conveyed by the rapid decrease in 
