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The scars were approximately rather smaller, and about the size of those in the figure 
now given. So far as the specimen is preserved, thirty leaf-scales are visible in an 
oblique row, and probably as many more would be so were the fossil complete. 
Woods’ cast is much broader at the base, and less cylindrical than that just described. 
The leaf-scales are two millimetres in vertical diameter, and about the same in the 
contrary direction. 
Loc. Stewart’s Creek, near Eockhampton {B. L. Jaclc). 
Family— TAXODIACE^. 
Qemis — SBQUOIITBS, Carruthers. 
SeQUOIITES ? AUSTEALIS, Ten. Woods. 
Scquoiiles australis, Ten. Woods, Proc. Linn. Soe. N. S. Wales, 1883, viii., Pt. 1, p. 162, t. 7, f. 5, 
Sp. Char. Leaves very close, two-rowed (?), spread out, flat, alternate, rarely 
falcate, smooth above ; midrib prominent below, rounded at the apex, towards which 
there is only a very slight tapering, not contracted at the base but becoming a sheath, 
down the centre of which the midrib can be distinctly traced, from twenty to twenty 
five millimetres long, and one and a-half wide, but much shorter and smaller near the 
extremities of the shoots, where they are somewhat imbricated all round the branch, 
and loosely spiral ; the sheathing base of the leaves gives rise to a jointed appearance to 
the stem. (Ten. Woods.) 
Ohs. The Author justly speaks very cautiously of his reference of this plant, 
only known from foliage, to Bequoiites, “as no cones, either male or female, have 
been hitherto discovered.” He adds — “ We have no Australian conifer with leaves 
similar to Sequoia except Podocarqms, but though in some species of that genus the 
foliage is long, flat, and with a prominent midrib, there is a distinct petiole, which in 
this fossil is wanting.” 
Loc. Eosewood, near Eockhampton (The late Bev J. E. T. Woods — Macleay 
Museum, University of Sydney). 
Family — TAXACEA5. 
Genus — TAXITE8, Brongniart, 1828. 
(Prod. Hist. Veg. Fobs., p. 108, 
Taxites MEnirs, Ten. Woods. . 
Taxitesmedius, Ten. Woods, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1883, viii., Pt. 1, p. 160, t. 9, f. 3. 
Sp. Char. Branchlets thin ; leaflets spirally and bilaterally disposed, emerging 
at an acute angle, sub-alternate, sometimes slightly curved outwards, narrow, linear, 
obtuse, rather long ; the decurrent pedicel thick, long, and broad (nearly as broad as 
the leaf at times), midrib thick and conspicuous, surface shining and transversely wrinkled. 
(Ten. Woods.) 
Obs. This is intermediate in character between the two Indian species T. 
tenerrimus, Feist., and T. planus. Feist. In the first of these the leaflets are very small 
and horizontal, but in the second the leaflets are much broader and longer, although 
horizontal also. 
Loc. Ipswich (The Bev. J. E. T. Woods — Macleay Museum,Univer8ity of 
Sydney), 
