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generally two of the amenta are alone distinct in the fossil, but others can 
always he traced in the centre; they are curved.” 
Locality and Horizon . — Abundant in a pale yellowish shale at Rose- 
wood, Queensland (Mesozoic). 
A — TAXOHIA CHE. 
Genus — SEQUOIITES, Carruthers. 
{Sequoia, Torrey.) 
Obs. — The earliest representatives of this genus were previously known 
from Wealden beds ; it further occurs in Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks, and 
is found amongst the living plants {Sequoia semper virens, west side of North 
America and in the south of California, and S. gigantea in California). 
Tenison Woods described one species from Queensland. 
Sequoiites (?) australis, Ten. Woods. 
Sequoiites (?) australis , Tenison Woods, loc. cit., 18S3, p. 1G2, PI. VII, f. 5. 
Sp. Char. — “ Leaves very close, two-rowed (?), spread out, flat, 
alternate, straight, rarely falcate, smooth above, midrib prominent below, 
rounded at the apex, towards which there is only a very slight tapering, not 
contracted at the base, but becoming a sheath, down the centre of which the 
midrib can be distinctly traced, from 20 to 25 mm. long, and 1^ wide, but 
much shorter and smaller near the extremities of the shoots, where they are 
somewhat imbricated all round the branch and loosely spiral. The sheathing 
base of the leaves gives rise to a jointed appearance of the stem. Length of 
the longest fragment 01 mm., on which there were about fifty leaves ; width 
about 25 mm., at base tapering to S mm.” 
Locality and Horizon. — In the plant beds of Rosewood, near Rock- 
hampton, Queensland, associated with Btilophyllum oligoneurum (Mesozoic, 
Jurassic). 
Genus — BRACIIYPHYLLUM, Brongniart , 1828. 
(Prodrome d’une Hist. Veg. Foss., p. 100.) 
Obs . — This genus is represented by various species in Rluetic strata, 
passing up into Cretaceous beds. I have also identified this genus from the 
Upper Gondwana System in India. 
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