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from the secondary ones. Besides these characters, the leaf of F. Benthami is 
distinguished by other characters such as : the petiole reaches 11 millimeters 
in length; the lamina is somewhat less narrowed towards the base than that 
of the abovenamed species, and the base itself is almost obtuse. The secondary 
nerves, distant from one another about 8 millimeters, and arc more or less 
divergingly curved, like those of F. sylvatica and F. ferruginea. 
At Elsinore, a locality remarkable for its fossil fruits, a beecli-nut has 
been found, represented in Eig. 8. As the shape of the nut agrees most with 
that of the same living species to which the fossil leaf is analogous, I do not 
doubt that both fruit and leaf belong to one and the same species, which 
I have named after the late George Bentham, whose merits in describing the 
Flora of Australia are indeed great. 
Locality and Horizon. — Eox and Partridge’s claim, between Bose 
Valley and the Bed Hill, 2 miles from Emmaville (Vegetable Creek Town- 
ship) ; ironstone shale from the Newer Leads (stanniferous), below basalt. 
Newstead, near Elsmore ; in concretionary ironstone (earthy limonite) asso- 
ciated with basalt. 
VLMA CFsF. 
Qenus — ULMOPHYLLUM. 
Gen. Char. — Eoliis subaequalibus, argute crenato-dentatis, nervis 
secundariis craspedodromis numerosis parallelis, nervis tertiariis subtilissimis 
dictyodromis. 
Ulmopiiyllxjm oblongum, sp. nov. 
Plate X, Figs. 12, 12a. 
Sp. Char . — U. foliis subcoriaceis, petiolatis, oblongis, basi rotundatis, 
apice producto paullo angustatis, margine argute et sequaliter crenato- 
dentatis, dentibus antrorsum versis ; nervo primario tenui ; nervis secundariis 
t enuissimis approximatis ; nervis tertiariis tenuissimis rectangularibus vix 
conspicuiis. 
Ohs.— A leaf which, according to its form and nervation, one might 
consider an TJlmns ; but the contrary is proved by its almost coriaceous 
texture, the teeth being adpressed and turned towards the apex especially, 
by the tertiary nerves being very tine, short, and disappearing into a narrow- 
meshed net (Fig. 12 a, enlarged). I could not discover any other family than 
