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Dacrydium cupressinoides, sp. 110V. 
Plate YIIT, Figs. 23, 24. 
Sjr Chav. — D. ramulis gracilibus, foliis parvis falcato- cur vatis, basi 
decnrrcntibus, crassiusculis carinatisque linear i-lanceolatis, congestis, squar- 
roso-patentibus vel abbreviatis et paullo latioribus, plus minusve imbricatis. 
Ohs . — I have had only small fragments of branclilets under examina- 
tion. Their racliis is slender, their leaves are small, short, thick, somewhat 
falsifonn, erect, decurrent, and close together. These fossils show a great 
likeness to branclilets of Dacrydium cupressinum, Sol., living in New Zealand. 
I have seen more completely preserved remains of another fossil species of 
Dacrydium in the rich collection of New Zealand tertiary plants, sent to me 
by [the late Sir] J. von Ilaast. This species is still more closely allied to the 
living species. Not only its branclilets are strikingly slender, but also the 
leaves arc narrower, more subulate, and thus both more alike the corresponding 
part of Dacrydium cupressinum. This New Zealand tertiary plant must 
therefore be considered the very predecessor of the living form, and I have 
called it Dacrydium prcecupressinum (published in the above-mentioned 
Memoirs). It is most remarkably that I should discover the ancestor of the 
latter species in the Cretaceous Elora of New Zealand, which I have called 
Dacrydinium cupressinum (published ibidem ), and that the Australian Tertiary 
species is intermediate between the named Cretaceous and the Tertiary species 
of New Zealand. 
Locality and Horizon. — Witlierden’s Tunnel, Two-mile, near Emma- 
villc (Vegetable Creek Township), on Vegetable Creek Main Deep Lead; 
brown carbonaceous clay under basalt. Watson’s Starlight Claim, Tingha ; 
carbonaceous clay, from Deep Lead (stanniferous) under basalt. 
Genus PALJEOCLADUS. 
Gen. Char. — Hamuli primarii et secundarii pliyllodinei, inter se con- 
nati, pliyllodia composite lobata formantes. Phyllodia secundaria intcgra, 
apice spinulosa. Eolia minuta, crassiuscula, parva, disticha, appressa. 
Paiaeocladus cuneiformis, sp. nov. 
Plate YII, Figs. 33, 33 a. 
Sp. Char. — P. phyllodiis (primariis) oblongo-cuneatis, lobatis lobis 
(phyllodiis secundariis) breviter ovatis, integerrimis acutis, apice spinula 
