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Comparison with previously described Species from 
New Zealand. 
The poverty of records of fossil Araucarians from this region has 
already been remarked. Ettingshausen (’ 87 , ’ 91 ) has described a few 
impressions of foliage and imperfectly preserved woods from beds then 
called Tertiary, but some of which are now known to be Cretaceous. From 
foliage impressions he founded a species Araucaria Haastii in 1887 (p. 154, 
PL II, Figs. 1, 2) which has an axis richly set with leaves which are truly 
Araucarian in appearance, and agree closely with the living A . chilensis, Mirb. 
His diagnosis of the species takes into account only the external mor- 
phology, nevertheless following this diagnosis he appends the remark* 
‘A petrified wood has been found in the Tertiary strata at Malvern Hills 
which agrees best with that of Araucaria , with which species I classify it 
He then figures and describes a few details of the wood, which is poorly 
preserved, including it in the name A. Haastii just given to foliage im- 
pressions, without even referring to the fact that there is not the slightest 
evidence that the wood and the leaves belonged to the same plant. Modern 
palaeo-botanical diagnosis will not, of course, allow this name to stand ; but 
for the present purposes of this paper I shall continue to call the wood 
A . Haastii . 
Ettingshausen describes another Araucarian foliage branch with smaller 
leaves, under the name Araucaria Danai . The original specimens of the 
Paratypes, kindly sent me by the Geological Survey of New Zealand for 
examination, are very poorly preserved and I should hesitate very much 
to base a species on such foliage. 
Under the one name Dammara Oweni Ettingshausen describes the 
impression of a cone, a cone scale, a leaf, and a piece of wood (!), all 
detached fragments, about which he had no evidence that they really 
belonged to each other. Consequently, they cannot properly be included 
under the one name. This material, however, does not seem to me to be 
well enough preserved to justify the founding of three fresh names for it, 
though an ardent species-monger will be bound to do so some day. The 
wood which is included in this comprehensive name Dammara Oweni 
appears truly to be a different species from the so-called A. Haastii , having 
very much larger pits, with closely adjacent hexagonal areas instead of the 
small, rounded, and separated borders of A. Haastii. 
These records, it is evident, are of little phylogenetic or morphological 
value. 
The New Zealand Geological Survey kindly sent me the type specimen 
of the wood described by Ettingshausen as A. Haastii , with permission to 
cut it for comparison with the present fossil. It is part of a trunk, larger 
