'I'RIASSIC FLORA OF BALI) JIILL. 
and sometimes s])inose apices. Fragments of leaves in the sur- 
rounding Tuatrix suggests Klnfocla<lu.s, but these may ot‘ mav not 
represent the leaves of the basal [lart of this bmnchlet. The 
acuminate leaflets show a close resemblance to the shape of the cone- 
scales ol Aranmrlfes, l)ut are minute in com[)arison. On the whole 
it seems more advisable to regard it as a terminal branch of the 
lini-chyphi/ll tmi tyjie, of wlticli the .)urrassi(‘ J>. McOoy, 
is another closely related form. Tfic materiai of all our Australian 
Mesozoi)' examples of this and allied genera is too meagre for an 
accurate des(‘ri|)tion, but in the advent of a more complete series, 
this would form an interesting group of fossil plants to deciphei'. 
On examinitig the figured type of T. Woods' />. Mr. H. 
Ftheridge, jun., found the leaves “ terminated u|)wards in a short 
mucro ’ In this character it agrees with the present specimen. 
Tenison Woods records />. crassam from the 
l])swich Series (Triassic) ; Tivoli Mine. It also occurs in the 
Walloon Series (Jurassic) of Clifton (V)lliery, Walloon and Rosewood 
(Ftheridge, jun. and Walkom). 
CONIFERALES, incertae sedes. 
(lenus FnATonLADUS Halle, 191J. 
HIlatocladus conferta Oldham and Morris s[). 
Plate XII., fig. .‘57 ; Idate XI II., fig. 4fi. 
Cuihniiu/hmnites coihfertiis Oldham and Morris, 186.‘5, Palaeontologia 
Indica, vol. I., pt. I., pi. XXXII., hg. 10. 
Palifisya cothfeiia PId. and Morr. S|)., Feistmantel, 1877, Ibid., ser. 
li., vol.’ II., pt. II., p. i:57, |)1. XFV., figs. 4 8, 8n ; pi. XFVIIl., 
fig. 4. 
Palissya auslmlis McCoy, in Stirling, 1000, Notes on the Fossil 
Flora of South (lippsland. Rep. on Vdct. ( Mal-fields, No. 7., 
Dept, of Mines, Vbct., pi. 111., figs. 8, 0. Chapman, 1008, Rec. 
Oeol. Surv. Viet., vol. II., pt. 4, p. 218, pi. XXXV., figs, 4, 5. 
Klatodudus eonferla Old. and Morr. sp., Newell Arber, 1017, New 
Zealand Oeol. Surv., Pal. Bull. No. 6, |>. 58., [)1. L., ftgs., 1, J ; 
])1. V'l., fig. 4 ; pi. VIII., fig. fi. 
Descrijdioii.. 'riie present examples include a stem with three 
leaflets attached to one side (fig. .‘57), found in the red ironstone of 
the tremdi at Bacchus Marsh ; and also a, detached leaflet, highly 
carbonized, found on the softer, whitish ])ipe-clay bed. In fig. .‘57 
the stem is thick and slightly imbricated as though the foliage had 
been strip])ed off, whilst there are three leaves still remaining, which 
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41 Ftlioridge, jun., 1892, p. 385, 
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