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Section-PHANEROGAMIA. 
Cl ass — D icot YLEDONES . 
Order— CYCADACEJ:. 
Family — ZAM lEiE. 
Oenus — PODOZAMITES, F. Braun. 
(Munster’s Petrofactenkunde, vi., p. 36.*) 
PoBOZAMiTES XANCEOLATBS, Bindley and Sutton ? 
Zamia laneedlata, L. and H., Fossil Elora, 1837, iii., 1. 194. 
Podozamites lanceolatus, Feistmantel, Pal. Indica (Gondwana Flora), 1877, ii., Pt. 2, p. 11(91), t. 3, f. 7-14, 
t. 4, f. 1-10. 
„ „ Ten. Woods, Proc. Linn. Soo. N. S. Wales, 1883, viii., Pt. i., p. 145. 
Sp. Char. Leaves remote, deciduous, entire, narrowed at base, lanceolate, 
acuminate at the apex; nerves many, forked just above the base, then simple, and 
converging to the apex, parallel, from eight to twelve in a leaf. Leaves from forty-five 
to one hundred millimetres in length, and from two to twelve in breadth, according as 
the leaf is orate or lanceolate, (Te?i. Woods.) 
Ohs. The above is the late Bev. J. E. Tenison Woods’ description of the 
Australian plant. The determination is open to some doubt, as the Eeverend Author 
seems to have hesitated between P. lanceolatus and Zeugophyllites elongatus, Morris. 
Denuding his remarks of quotations from other Authors, he says : “Both these varieties 
(i.e., the Indian) occur abundantly in the Ipswich Basin, one specimen showing how the 
leaves were affixed to the parent stem, and, though the fragment is imperfect, it shows 
precisely the growth figured by Sohimper This plant may have been 
the same as Zeugophyllites australis, Morr. It must be remembered that the latter 
genus was established by Brongniart for a plant with leaflets such as these, but in 
pairs.” 
Loo. Ipswich Basin (P/m late Bev. J. E. T. Woods — Macleay Museum, 
University of Sydney). 
Podozamites, sp., PI. 18, fig. 5. 
Obs. Leaflets somewhat similar to those described from “ Burrum, above the 
Bridge Seam — Hon. W. Walsh” (PI. 18, fig. 4), are presented in this specimen, but 
larger and displaced with respect to one another. The venation is stronger than in 
the previous form, and the apices blunter, although that of the larger pinnule does 
not represent a true margin, but a fractured edge. There are about eight 
veins in the space of half an inch. This approaches nearest to Podozamites Zeillerianus, 
Zigno,t an Italian species, both in size and nature of the venation, except that in 
our plant the veins occasionally bifurcate, whilst in the former they are simple. 
Similar broad pinnules are figured by Schenk, in Bichthofen’s “ China,” as 
Podozamites lanceolatus, var. latifolia. Here,J on the whole, they appear much 
more finely veined than our PI. 18, fig. 5, but some have acute apices, as in PI. 18, 
fig. 4. 
The questionable occurrence of Zeugophyllites in Queensland rocks has already 
been referred to under Podozamites lanceolatus. From Mount Esk some long 
and fragmentary striated and simple leaves have come under notice, which Mr. B. 
* Fide Zigno, Flora Foss. Formationis Ool., Vol. ii., p. 118. 
+ Zigno, Flora Foss. Formationis Ool., ii., p. 130, t. 41, f. 1-6. 
t Beitr^e zur Falaontologie von China, 1883, Bd. ir., t. 49, f. 5, t. 50, t. 4, t. 51, f. 6. 
