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each clothed with the characteristic thick, fleshy, triangular leaves, closely imbricated, 
and these appear to me to be identical with those of British examples of this plant. 
Remarks. Zeiller (see above) has recently figured the cuticles and stomata of this plant. 
Occurrence. —Mataura Falls, Southland (Middle Jurassic). 
Genus STACHYOTAXUS Nathorst, 1886. 
(Floran vid Bjuf, p. 98.) 
Stachyotaxus (?) sp. Plate XIII, fig. 7. 
Description of the Specimen.— Fructifications which appeal' to have some resemblance 
to Nathorst s(l) Stachyotaxus occur at Gore, but unfortunately none of them are sufficiently 
well preserved to be specifically determinable. One of these is seen on Plate XIII. 
fig. 7, somewhat enlarged. It measures 9 cm. in length. It consists of a broad axis 
beaiing a laige number of oval, stalked bodies, the exact nature of which it is impossible 
to determine, though if the resemblance to Stachyotaxus is a real one they are probably 
in some cases seeds borne on scales, and scales alone in others. 
Remarks.— This specimen may be fairly closely compared with the Stachyotaxus elegans 
of Nathorst(l). Seward(2) has also figured two obscure specimens from Victoria, of 
Jurassic age, as “ Female flowers of Ginkgoales 1 ” to one of which there is some slight 
resemblance. 
Occurrence. Mokoia, Gore, Southland (? Lower Jurassic). 
Phylum ANGIOSPERMJE. 
DICOTYLEDONES. 
Plate XIV. 
One of the most interesting features of the small collection of fossil plants from 
Waikato Heads is the occurrence of a few Angiospermous leaves. These all occur on a 
single specimen, which is figured on Plate XIV. When this specimen reached me at 
Cambridge the leaves in question were not exposed, and it was only by further 
developing ’ the piece of shale in question that they were brought to light. Their 
occurrence is of particular interest, for otherwise this flora is entirely Mesophytic in 
type, and it is clear that the Angiosperms were not the dominant race in the flora of 
Waikato Heads, as they are in nearly all Neophytic floras. 
borne time ago I had the pleasure of showing the interesting specimen figured on 
1 late XI\ to my friend Dr. L. Laurent, of Marseilles, an authority on the Tertiary 
floras. At my request he very kindly consented to write a note on the Angiosperms 
which occur associated with Cladophlebis australis (Morr.) at Waikato Heads, and I 
include here a translation of the note in question. I would return my sincere thanks 
to Dr. Laurent for his kindness in describing these fossils for me. 
A Note on the Dicotyledonous Remains op Waikato Heads. 
By Dr. L. Laurent, Conservateur au Museum d’Histoire Naturelle de Marseille. 
A quite peculiar interest attaches to the discovery of Angiospermous remains of the 
Cretaceous period, since we know relatively little on the subject of the ancestral types 
of this group. The discoveries made, both in Europe and North America, have, indeed 
carried the date of the appearance of the higher plants further back; but, spite of all, 
the number of the first representatives of those fossil plants which it has been possible 
to refer with certainty to the Angiosperms is relatively very small, notably as regards 
(1) Nathorst (1908), p. 11, pi. ii. 
(~) Seward (1904 1 ), p. 179, pi. xix, fig. 39. 
