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Ohs . — Closely allied on the one hand to the preceding species, on the 
other to Ficus dalmatica, Ett, F. Phillipsii departs from the first by a longer 
and narrower leaf by the tertiary nerves arising out of the secondary ones at 
right angles, and by an otherwise formed net, with its nervules somewhat 
stronger, and its meshes smaller. 
Our species differs from Ficus dalmatica and from F. Beusii by the 
same characters as F. Solanderi does. 
Locality and Horizon. — Old Rose Valley Lead, with the preceding. 
Ficus Willsii, sp. nov. 
Plate X, Figs. 14, 15, 15a. 
Sp. Char. — F. foliis coriaceis, ellipticis (?) integerrimis vel undulatis, 
basiacutis; nervatione camptodroma; nervo primario crasso ; nervis sccundariis 
subangulis 75-85° orientibus, paullo arcuatis parallelis ; nervis tertiariis 
tenuissimis angulis variis exeuntihus, ramosis inter se conjunctis ; reticulo 
tencrrimo evoluto. 
Ohs . — Although this species is only represented by mere fragments of 
the leaf, a closer investigation suffices to distinguish a species which is closely 
related to Ficus Jynx, Ung. The nervation being well preserved, fortunately 
admits a comparison with this species. They agree most with smaller leaves 
of Ficus Jynx from Sotzka, as well as with the leaves figured in Ileer’s 
Tertiarflora der Schweiz, vol. i, PI. LXXXV, figs. 8-11. One might even be 
inclined to suppose the identity of both the Australian and the European 
species, but this is contradicted by a careful comparison of the network of 
the first (magnified in Fig. 15 a) with that of the second. On Ficus Jynx the 
tertiary nerves branch outwards from the secondary at nearly the same acute 
angle, whilst on our species these nerves branch at varyingly acute angles 
from both sides of the secondary ones. The latter case occurs also in some 
living Ficus, for instance, F. Benjaminea , the leaves of which, showing a 
form similar to that of the Australian fossil, possess secondary nerves, which 
are likewise approximate, parallel to one another, and ascending from the 
primary one at barely acute angles. 
Locality and Horizon. — Old Rose Valley Lead, with the preceding. 
