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a second species, tlie S. obtusifolius, Lesq., which corresponds to it in the 
number of secondary veins. In both species, however, the acute-angled 
lowest secondary veins arc wanting. The Sapindus defunctus, Ileer, from 
the Fossil Flora of Sachalin, can also he regarded as an analogous species of 
the S. Tasmanicus. In the former, as in the latter, the secondary veins 
ascend abruptly towards the margin. 
The genus Sapindus is wanting in the present flora of Tasmania. In 
Queensland, however, it is represented by several endemic species. 
Locality and Horizon. — Estuary of the Itiver Derwent, Tasmania. 
Collection . — (?). 
TIL I A CE2E. 
EltEocaupus Bassii, sp. nov* 
Plate VI, Figs. 9-12. 
Johnston, Notes, etc., Papers and Proc. It. Soc., Tasmania for 1881 [10th Plato], tig. 57, and 
[11th Plate], fig. 60. 
Sp. Char. — E. fructihus drupaceis, putamine ovali irregulariter tuber- 
culato, rimoso, quinqueloculari (?). 
Obs. — Plate VI, fig. 11 on account of its peculiarities of surface, is 
a well characterised fossil fruit, whose flatness must not in any way he 
regarded as a character of the fruit, hut has resulted from external com- 
pression. The irregular, closely-packed furrows, limited by injured ribs, are 
found on the surface of the putamen of Elccocarpus, precisely as in the 
described fossil. Figs. 9 and 10 are merely a fragment of the putamen, which, 
as Fig. 12 shows, consisted of five pieces, similar to that of Elccocarpus 
Albrecht i, Ileer, from the Fossil Flora of the Sam country (compare Ileer, 
loc. cit., Plate X, figs. 1-4), which one fossil resembles also in its form. 
However, the putamen of the species named is distinguished by more 
prominent longitudinal ribs. In its more irregular furrows and ribs, the 
putamen of the Elceocarpus Bassii resembles very closely that of some still 
existing species, for example, E. (Ganitrus) sphcericus (compare Gaertner, 
* [In the explanation of the figures attached to his paper, Mr. Johnston cites fig. GO (here referred to hy 
Baron von Ettingshausen), under the name of Rhytidotheca Johndonii, F. v M., nov. sp. As a comprehensive 
figure, even without description, is held sufficient to establish an author’s right to his species, it appears to me 
that Sir F. von Mueller’s specific name should take precedence of Ettingshausen’s, more particularly when the 
figure in question was clearly good enough to enable the latter observer to use it in the sense indicated.— E.E., 
jnr.] 
