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each tooth. But at the same time it also shows peculiarities which belong to 
neither genus, such as the undivided, equally line, parallel secondary veins, 
ending partly in the point and partly in the margin of the teeth. It cannot, 
therefore, he properly referred to either Banksia or Bryandra, hut must he 
entered under an extinct genus of the past, which embraced both Banksia 
and Bryandra as their progenitor, and of which certain forms have since 
been differentiated into real Banksias and Dryandras. For the present I 
assume that such progenitor was identical with the proteaceous genus 
Bryandroides, erected by Unger. 
An inclusion of the described fossil among the Myricacece is out of the 
question, inasmuch as a venation such as has just been portrayed does not 
occur in that order. Of hitherto known fossil Proteaceae, the Bryandroides 
basaltica, Ett., from the Fossil Flora of Bilin, and the North American B. 
Cleburni, Lesq., sp.,* are its nearest relatives as regards form, dentation of 
margin, and venation. The distances between the right-angled secondary 
veins are also similar, but the intermediate veins are wanting in the two 
species just named. I dedicated this species to its discoverer, R. M. John- 
ston, Esq., who has made careful and assiduous researches among the tertiary 
regions of Tasmania. 
Locality and Horizon. — One-tree Point and Pipeclay Bluff, Carnelian 
Bay, Estuary of the River Derwent, Tasmania; Upper Tertiary Leaf beds. 
Collection. — R. M. Johnston. 
Gamopetalae. 
B VBIA CELE. 
CopjtosMA ph^ecuspidifolia, sp. non. 
Plate V, Fig. G. 
Sp. Char. — C. foliis petiolatis coriaceis, obovatis, basi angustatis apicc 
acuto spinula armatis, margine integerrimis ; nervatione camptodroma ; nervo 
* Lesquereux compares the fossil figured as Quercus Cleburni on Plate XX, fig. 2, in the work referred to, 
with the leaves of Quercus urophylla, Ung. These are, however, not narrowed at the base, as the fossil quoted ; 
they have further a very pronounced asymmetry, which in the latter is barely apparent ; and finally, they have 
their secondary veins right-angled on one side only, but on the other side rather acute-angled. In the fossil 
quoted, on the contrary, the secondary veins issue on both sides of the midrib at almost right angles. Hence 
the above analogy, and generally the inclusion of the fossil among the oaks, are unfounded. On the other hand, 
the fossil betrays a much closer affinity with the species of Dryandroides. As regards the dentation of the 
margin and the venation, it resembles the D. cuneata, Sap., but as regards the form of the leaf the D. basaltica, 
