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that of the reverse of the original(l), as will be seen by a comparison of Plate VIII, 
fig. 5, which is a drawing of the same scale, enlarged one and a half times. The 
specimen measures 2-1 cm. in length, and 1-5 cm. across at its widest part. The shape 
is ovate. In the centre there is an elongately elliptical hollow, that no doubt marks 
the place of attachment of the seed, which, however, is absent. 
Remarks. These scales agree very closely with those figured by Eeistmantel(2) from 
the Jabalpur group of India. 
Occurrence. (?) Mount Potts, Canterbury (Rhsetic) ; Mokoia, Gore, Southland 
(? Lower Jurassic). 
Genus BRACHT PHY LLUM Brongniart, 1849. 
(Tabl. Gem. Veget. Foss., p. 69.) 
BrachyphyHum sp. Plate XIII, figs. 8, 10. 
Description of the Specimens.— Several examples of indifferently preserved Coniferous 
branches occur in the Catlin’s River beds, densely clothed with short, triangular, 
somewhat fleshy leaves, spirally arranged. One of these twigs is shown on Plate XIII, 
fig. 8, natural size. Another, a branched specimen, is illustrated, twice enlarged, by 
fig. 10 of the same plate. 
Remarks. The preservation of these specimens is in no case good enough to warrant 
specific determination. They may be compared, however, with the Rlnetic plants 
referred to this genus by Schenk(3) in Germany, and also with the English specimens(4) 
of like affinity from the Yorkshire Oolites. As compared with the Australian species 
theie is some resemblance to the obscure Brachyphyllum crassum of Tenison-Woods(5), 
but less so to the Brachyphyllum gippslandicum of McCoy(6), which has more oval 
or elliptical leaves. 
Occurrence. —Owaka Creek, Gatlin’s River, Otago (? Rlnetic). 
Genus CRYPTOMERITES Bunbury, 1851. 
{Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. vii, p. 190.) 
Cryptomerites sp. 
Remarks. In the New Zealand Geological Survey collection are two very indistinct 
examples of Coniferous twigs from Makarewa, which resemble in habit the Cryptomerites 
divaricatus of Bunbury(7), with the type of which, at Cambridge, I have compared 
them. Bunbury’s plant is from the Lower Oolite of the Yorkshire coast. The New 
Zealand specimens, however, are too badly preserved to permit of any scientific com¬ 
parison. They may, however, be also compared, as regards the genus, with the India 
Gondwana specimen from Cutch, figured by Feistmantel(8) under Bunbury’s name, 
and a specimen from the Jurassic of Grahamland, referred to the genus Pagiophyllum 
by Halle(9). 
Occurrence. McRae s, Makarewa, Hokonui Hills, Southland (? Rhsetic). 
(1) Presumably owing to the photographic 
plate having been inserted in the 
camera in the wrong position. 
(2) Feistmantel (1877 3 4 5 ), pp. 16-96, pi. xiv. 
(3) Schenk (1867), p. 187, pi. 159, pi. 5. 
(4) Seward (1900), p. 297, pi. x, tig. 1. 
(5) Tenison-Woods (1883), p. xliii. 
(6) McCoy (1900), p. 5, pi. ii, figs. 1, 2, 5, 5a ; 
pi. iii, figs. 10-16. 
(7) Bunbury (1851), p. 190, pi. xiii, fig. 4; 
see also Seward (1900), p. 287. 
(8) Feistmantel (1876 1 2 ), vol. ii, pt. 1 , p. 59, 
pi. x, figs. 1, la. 
(9) Halle (1913 1 ), p. 74, pi. viii, fig. 11. 
