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2. Cladophlebis australis (Morris). Plate IV, figs. 1, 5, ? 7, 8 ; Plate XIV. 
1845. Pecopteris australis Morris, in Strzelecki, Phys. Doer. N.S. Wales, p. 248, pi. vii. 
figs. 1 2. 
1863. Pecopteris (Alethopteris) indica Oldham and Morris, Foss. Flora Gondw. Syst. (Pal. 
Indica), vol. i, pt. 1, p. 47, pi. xxvii. 
1863. Pecopteris (Asplenites) macrocarpa Oldham and Morris, ibid., p. 51, pi. xxviii, figs. 2, 3, 3a ; 
pi. xxxvi, figs. 5-7. 
1864. 1 olypo^ium Hochstetteri Unger, Novara-Exped., Geol. Theil. vol. i, pt. ii, Palaeont., 
p. 5, pi. ii, figs. 1, 2. 
1869. Alethopteris australis Schimper, Traite Pal. Veget., vol. i, p. 569. 
1875. Pecopteris australis McCoy, Prodr. Pal. Victoria, Dec. 2, p. 16, pi. xiv, fig. 3. 
1877. Alethopteris indica Feistmantel, Foss. Flora Gondw. Syst., vol. i, pt. ii, pp. 37-89; 
pi. xxxvi, figs. 4, 4a ; pi. xlvi, figs. 3, 4. 
1877. Asplenites macrocarpus Feistmantel, ibid., pp. 39-91, pi. xxxvi, figs. 5-7; pi. xxxvii, 
figs. 3, 4; pi. xlviii, fig. 2. 
1877. Pecopteris (Asplenites) macrocarpa Feistmantel, ibid., vol. i, pt. iii, pp. 9-171, pi. i, 
figs. 1, 2. 
1877. Alethopteris (Cladophlebis) indica Feistmantel, ibid., vol. i, pt. iii, pp. 7-169, pi. i, 
figs. 3-5. 
1878. Alethopteris australis Feistmantel, Palceontogr., Suppl. 3, Lief. 3, p. 109, pi. xiv; 
figs. 1, la. 
1883. Alethopteris australis Tenison-Woods, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. viii, p. 111. 
1883. Alethopteris concinna Tenison-Woods, ibid., p. 112, pi. ix; fig. 1. 
1883. Todea australis Renault, Cour. Bot. Foss., vol. iii, p. 81, pi. xi. 
1885. Alethopteris australis Curran, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. ix, p. 251. 
1886. Pecopteris acuta Hector, Det. Cat. & Guide, N. Zeal. Court, hid. & Col. Exhib., 
p. 65, fig. 30(2). 
1886. Pecopteris linearis Hector, ibid., p. 65, fig. 30(3). 
1886. Pecopteris ovata Hector, ibid., p. 65, fig. 30(6). 
1886. Pecopteris obtusata Hector, ibid., p. 66, fig. 30a(l). 
1886. Pecopteris grandis Hector, ibid., p. 66, fig. 30a(3). 
1886. Alethopteris australis Johnston, Geol. Tasmania, pi. xxv, p. 153, figs. 5, 6, 8. 
1888. ? Alethopteris serratifolia Johnston, ibid., pi. xxiii, fig. 1. 
1890 Alethopteris australis Feistmantel, Mem. Geol. Surv. N.S. Wales, Pal. No. 3, p. 109, 
pi. xxvii, figs. 3, 3a. 
1892 Alethopteris australis Etheridge, in Jack and Etheridge, Geol. and Pal. Queensland, 
p. 370, pi. 16. fig. 1. 
1900. Alethopteris australis McCoy, in Stirling, Rep. Victorian Coalfields No. 7 p. 3, pi. ii, 
figs. 3, 3a. 
1902. Todea australis Shirley, Bull. 18, Geol. Surv. Queensland, p. 10. 
1904. Cladophlebis denticulata var. australis, Seward, Rec. Geol. Surv. Victoria, vol. i, 
pt. iii, p. 171 pi. xvi, figs. 25-27. 
Diagnosis. —Frond bipinnate. Pinnae oblique. Pinnules very variable in size and 
shape, lanceolate, straight or falcate ; margin entire, not toothed ; pinnules attached 
by the whole base to the rachis ; apex acute or obtuse. Midrib well defined; 
lateral nerves of the characteristic Cladophlebis tuning-fork type, once dichotomized, 
or one or both branches of the primary dichotomy forking a second time. Fertile 
pinnae similar to the sterile in form. Sori (?) oblique, linear, parallel to the lateral 
nerves. 
Description of the Specimens. —On Plate XIV two pinnae of this plant are seen, 
in which the pinnules and their nervation are particularly clear. A still more com¬ 
plete pinna is figured on Plate IV, fig. 1. The apical portion of a pinna seen 
on Plate IV, fig. 8, also probably belongs to this species. The above specimens 
are all from the Neocomian rocks of Waikato Heads, Auckland, and they appear to be 
indistinguishable from other examples from the Rhaetic and Jurassic formations of New 
Zealand, such as that from the (?) Rhsetic of Owaka Creek, Gatlin’s River, Otago, 
shown on fig. 5 of the same plate. 
