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Lomatia Scottii, Lesq. sp. (Myrica Scottii. Lesq.), from the American 
Tertiary, might correspond to the above described species. 
Locality and Horizon . — Between Hill and Watson’s shafts, in white 
pipeclay from the Old llose Valley Lead, on the Main Vegetable Creek 
Lead, Emmaville (Vegetable Creek Township). 
Lomata Evansii, sp. nov. 
Plate XII, Figs. 6, 6a. 
Sp. Char. — L. foliis coriaceis petiolatis, oblongis basi acutis, margine 
spinulosodentatis ; nervatione brocliidodroma ; nervo primario prominente 
recto; nervis secundariis subangnlis 30-40° orientibus, approximatis, tennibus, 
tlexnosis, ramosis, inter se conjunctis ; nervis tertiariis abbreviates, subangulis 
variis insertis, retc macrosynammatum prominens formantibus. 
Ohs . — Agrees regarding texture and margin with the larger number of 
the describeds pecies of Lomatia ; but differs from them by the following 
characters : — The form of the lamina is almost elliptical-oblong, and narrowed 
towards its ends. The secondary nerves being approximate, branch off almost 
immediately on leaving their point of divergence. They diverge from the 
primary nerve at very acute angles, forming congregated loops. The network 
is lax-meshed and prominent. The meshes of the highest order are open, as 
represented in Eig. 6a, magnified. Relating to this character it may be 
remarked that the finest network being very incompletely preserved on the 
fossil, is visible on one spot only. Amongst living species, Lomatia illicifolia, 
B. Brown ; among fossil ones, L. helicioides, Sap. sp., might be considered as 
bearing a closer relationship to our species, but both the ahovenamed exhibit 
borders different from those of our own. 
Locality and Horizon. — Between Hill and Watson’s shafts from the 
Old Rose Valley Lead, on the Main Vegetable Creek Deep Lead, Emmaville 
(Vegetable Creek Township). 
Genus BANKSIA. 
Ohs. — The leaves of seven fossil species of this genus, confined to 
Australia at the present time, have been so far found in the beds of Vegetable 
Creek. The leaves of Banlcsia are eminently characterised by a coriaceous, 
often stiffly, firm texture, a more or less thickened margin, parallel to which 
