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usculis, mucronulatis, seniorum brevioribus adpressis lanccolatis ; nervo 
mcdiano distincto ; fructibus solitariis globoso-ovatis, lgevibus, receptaculo 
longioribus. 
Ohs . — The branclilets, Pigs. 20 and 27, show a rather tender rachis, 
and in connection with it, lineal, rigid, coriaceous leaves. They arc close 
together, distichous, obtusely pointed, flat, a little falsiform, narrowed and 
decurrent at base, and bear a strong middle nerve (see Pigs. 20a and 27a, 
magnified). The branclilets described are certainly the younger, or secondary 
ones. But Pig. 25 shows a branclilet with a smaller number of leaves, usually 
shorter and less distant. This, also bearing fruit, is an older or primary one. 
Besides, there arc in the collection before me some other branclilets not 
figured, their leaves being still smaller and shorter, at greater and unequal 
distances, and converging more to the rachis. The above-mentioned fruit, 
a small berry, growing solitary on the top of a forked branclilet, is globular- 
oval, smooth, and surrounded at its base by a cup pressed to it. A fragment 
of such a one is to be seen on the top of the other twig of the fork, which 
has already lost its fruit. 
The above characters tend to prove a Podocarpus of the tribe lb aery - 
carpus, where P. cupressina , B. Brown, living in Oceania, offers the nearest 
likeness. Among the fossil species Podocarpus el cyans, De la Harpe, from 
the British Eocene, is closely allied to our species. The former, of which 
the fruit is still unknown,*' differs from the latter by the size and arrange- 
ment of the leaves, which are greater and more distant. 
A predecessor of the Podocarpus prcccuprcssina has been found in the 
Cretaceous Plora of New Zealand, which will be described in my paper upon 
this Plora (Denkscli. K. Akad. Wissenscli. Wien, 1887). It may therefore be 
stated that the tribe Dacry carpus had at an early period a larger area of 
distribution in the South Hemisphere. 
Locality and Horizon. — Witherden’s Tunnel, Two-mile, near Einma- 
ville (Vegetable Creek Township), on Vegetable Creek Main Deep Lead; 
brown carbonaceous clay under basalt. 
*In the Monograph of the British Eocene Flora, vol. ii, Part I (Paleeontographical Society, vol. for 1883), 
there is figured Plate VIII, fig. 16, a branchlet of Podocarpus clegcins, De la Harpe, wrongly identified in 
connection with a berry of another plant, perhaps a Laurinea, accidentally laying close by. I have seen the 
original in the collection of Mr. J. S. Gardiner. 
