TRIASSIC FLORA OF BALD HILL. 
compare closely with those from the Kajrnahal beds of India, referred 
by Oldham and Morris to Cnnnvnghmnites confertus. Feistmantel 
has described further Indian specimens as follows “ Branches 
distichous, alternate, furnished with leaves ; leaves broader, shorter, 
at the base constricted, acuminated, on a decurrent cushion, sessile, 
spirally dis])osed, but imitatinp- the lorm of a comb (fructification 
unknown)." 
()bsermtions.~ The generic name of Elatodadm was given by 
Halle to include sterile shoots of conifers like that of Palissya and 
Taxites. Halle included Palissya australis of McCoy in the same 
genus, as a synonym of Elatocladas conferta Oldham and Morris. 
iJistrihvtion - -The \hctorian forms referred to occur in the 
Jurassic of South Oippsland. Arber’s specimens are from the 
Bhaetic to Middle Jurassic of New Zealand. 
Oenus “Baritania Hollick and Jeffrey, 1909. 
(?) Baritania victoriae, sp. nov. 
Plate XII I., figs. 49, 50. 
Description. These examples consist of slender, dichotomously 
brancherl axes, which are gra(jefully curved, and at first sight re- 
semble the remaitis of Baiera {d eanpaalia) Lindleyana of Schimper. 
I he edges of the axes are seen, however, to carry what appear to be 
minute prickle-leaves. The (listinguishing feature of the present 
species is the graceful curvature of the branches and axis, which in 
Raritania yracdis, of the Cretaceous of New Jersev and Kreischer- 
ville, consist of straight, divergent branches thrown off from the 
main axis at an acute angle. 
1 he shoot here figured is about 11mm. m length and the axis is 
.5mm. in width. The stem is very finely striate. 
Ohservalions.- On account of the unicpieness of the above species, 
the reference to^ the North American genus, Raritania, is here re- 
garded as provisional. Further examples may ])rove its relationship 
with Baiera rather than with Raritania. 
SEEDS, incertae sedis. 
Oenus — Miorotesta, nov. 
Microtesta triassica, gen. et. sp. nov. 
Plate NIL, fig. 38. 
General Characters.- -The minuteness, the ovate to subspherical 
form, and absence of keels or salient points of attachment prevents 
the reference of this fossil seed to any genus or group of uncertain 
position already described. 
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