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halves, entire, obtuse at both ends ; the venation is camptodromic, with few, 
line, ascending secondary veins. The fossil most nearly resembles the leaflets 
of Sophora. 
Locality and Horizon. — With the preceding species. 
Phyllites mimosjsformis, sj). nov. 
Johnston, Notes, etc., Papers and Proc. R. Soc., Tasmania, for 1881 [9th Plate], fig. 31. 
Obs . — A small indistinctly preserved leaf fossil, which most probably 
is' a leaflet, and from its delicate nature more likely to he one of the Mimoscse 
rather than a Cassia. 
Locality and Horizon. — With the preceding species. 
CaRPOLITIIES GAERTNERIOIDES, Sp. 110V. 
Plate VT, Fig. 13. 
Johnston, Notes, etc., Papers and Proc. P. Soc., Tasmania, for 1881 [9th Plate], fig. 34. 
Obs. — An ovate fruit grown out of two bracteoles, which was not 
originally flattened, hut whose actual shape has been produced by subsequent 
compression. In the middle is observed a sutural rib dividing the fruit into 
two halves, and on each half there are wrinkles, producing, generally, an 
indistinct cross-hatching. At the thickest portion of the rib must be the 
situation of the base of the fruit. On this supposition, the fruit would he 
remarkably similar to that of some Loganiacese, e.y., Gaertnera. In the 
genus named we find an ovate dry drupe, covered by the calyx at the base, 
but easily disengaged, and enclosing two pyrenes. The latter, containing each 
one seed, have together the form of a plum, and fill up almost entirely the 
interior of the fruit, which is provided with only a thin covering of fleshy 
pulp. Where the flat internal surfaces of the pyrenes meet one another, a 
furrow is produced, which in a fossil fruit of this species might easily become 
more prominent, or even like a rib. 
Locality and Horizon. — Pipeclay Bluff, Sandy Bay, Estuary of the 
Biver Derwent, Tasmania ; Upper Tertiary Leaf beds. 
Collection .- — It. M. Johnston. 
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