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those of Mollinedia. The margin, is slightly broken in outline, apparently 
dentate, but perhaps a little less so than shown in the figure, which has been 
otherwise very carefully drawn. 
The impression in reverse of this specimen, No. 5, is shown on the 
varnished side of No. 3 ; the depressions or grooves with which the surface 
is marked, and which seem to indicate the presence of veins, are mere 
irregularities of the surface. 
Daphnandra Selwyni, sp. nov. 
Plate I., Fig. 5. 
Well-preserved leaf, 14 inches long and f inch wide, ovate, with the 
margin slightly crenulate or bluntly serrate. Midrib straight, lateral veins 
curved and nearly reaching the margin, but then branching, the upper branch 
turning round to meet the lower branch of the next above; tertiary veins 
forming a network between the lateral veins. 
Specimen No. 6 displays a leaf which calls for remarks very similar to 
those made with respect to Mollinedia Muelleri. If there is any reliance at 
all to be placed on fossil leaf nomenclature, the leaf in question may be con¬ 
sidered to belong to the natural order Monimiacece , and of the included genera 
it most resembles Daphnandra. 
Specimen No. 8 is the reverse or cover of No. 6. 
Cinnamomum polymorphoides, McCoy. 
Plate I., Figs. 6 and 12. 
The leaf fragment preserved in specimen No. 7 (Fig. 6) resembles the late 
Professor McCoy’s Cinnamomum polymorphoides, and I have assumed it to be 
this species. I have called attention elsewhere (Proceedings of the Linnean 
Society of New South Wales) to the fact that this type of venation is not 
confined to Cinnamomum , and that no argument can be based on the reputed 
existence of Cinnamomum as indicating an Indian element in the flora. 
Species of Cinnamomum flourish to-day in New South Wales and Queens¬ 
land, and the type exists in Australian species of other genera of Laurinece , 
such as Litscea , Cryptocarya , and in some degree Endiandra. 
Specimen No. 15 (Fig. 12) exhibits a portion of a leaf possessing apparently 
the Cinnamomum venation. The principal veins remind one of the way in 
which those of Acacia binervata , De Can., branch out, but there are apparently 
some small veins on the right hand side, as shown in the figure, which do 
not support such a determination, but tend rather to indicate affinity to 
Cinnamomum. As the identity is not very certain, it may be better to place 
the fossil provisionally under C. polymorphoides. The discovery of further 
specimens from the same horizon may settle the matter. 
Saxifrages. 
Argophvllites parvifolia, sp. nov. 
* Plate I., Fig. 7. 
Leaf originally about 4 inches in length, probably ovate lanceolate in out¬ 
line, with w^ell defined but distant teeth, ajiex and base not preserved. 
Midrib straight, and straight lateral viens almost in pairs opposite one 
another, curved, and reaching the margin at the points of the teeth. The 
tertiary venation consists of a network of smaller veins, which chiefly arrange 
themselves in lines at right angles to the midrib. 
The figure is taken from the portion of leaf preserved in specimen No. 9. 
The tertiary venation is unusual. In this respect Cutsia mburnea , F. v. M. 
4541. 
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