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I dedicate this species in memory of Dr. Leichhardt, the German 
explorer in Australia, who undertook difficult exploratory journeys in the 
interior of the Continent, and was with his companions irretrievably lost. 
Locality and Horizon. — Dalton, near Gunning, with the preceding. 
CiNNAMOMUM WOODWAKDII, sp. HOV. 
Plate III, Fig. 3. 
Sp. Char. — C. foliis rigidis coriaceis ovato-lanceolatis utrinque ohtusis, 
margine integerrimis ; nervationc acrodroma ; nervo primario tirmo, recto ; 
nervis secundariis iniimis suprabasilarihus, acrodromis distinctis, suhangulis 
G5-75° orientibus, curvatis, apicem non attingentihus ; nervis secundariis 
reliquis angulo suhrecto egredientibus, inter sc distantibus, curvatis, marginem 
adscendentibus ; nervis tertiariis solummodo in latere externo nervorum 
acrodromorum conspicuis, approximatis, curvatis, simplicibus. 
A Cinnamomum leaf resembling most nearly that of C. Scheuchzeri , 
hut differing in the obtuse originating angles of the acrodromic secondary 
veins. Judging from the strong impression left in the rock by the fossil, 
the consistence of the leaf must have been remarkably rigid, which is not 
the case in the species mentioned. 
I named this species in honor of my highly esteemed friend, Dr. 
Ilcnry Woodward, Keeper of the Geological Department of the British 
Museum, London. 
Locality and Horizon. — Shocbridgc, near Hobart, Tasmania ; Tertiary 
limestone. 
Collection.- — British Museum (Natural History Branch). 
tinuous veinlets do undoubtedly occur, as may be seen from the illustrations given by himself (PI. XIV, figs. 1 
and 2, on the upper portion of the leaves ; and PI. XVI, fig. 1, also in the lower portion of a leaf). On the other 
hand there occur in the central principal areas of Cinnamomum leaves, besides continuous veinlets, also branching 
ones; the latter are especially frequent in C. camphora (Ettingshausen, Blattskelete der Apetalen, PI. XXX, 
figs. 5-7 ; Blattskelete der Dicotyledonen, PI. XVlll, figs. 6-10), and among fossil species in C. spectabile (Heer, 
Terti in-flora der Schweiz, vol. ii, PI. XCVI, fig. 6). The more or less frequent occurrence of branching veinlets 
would in this case, however, be insufficient foundation for anything beyond a specific difference, at the utmost. 
As regards finally the intermediate lines in the principal areas of the leaf, they are nothing bnt^ the 
adjoining stronger and more prominent anastomosing loop3 of the veinlets. Similar looping veins are also found 
traversing the principal areas in cinnamon leaves, although never in the two immediately adjacent to the middle 
vein, and never in the middle of the areas. In Cinnamomum zeylanicum ( vide Ettingshausen, Blattskelete der 
Apetalen,, PI. XXX, fig. 11) the looping veins are quite close to the margin, whilst in C. camphora, they are 
more distant from the margin. I am unable to perceive anything beyond a specific difference in this variable 
occurrence and position of the anastomosing loops at the base of the leaf, and hence I place the abovemen tioned 
leaves of Laurineaj from Atanekerdluk under Cinnamomum. 
