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(Saxifrages), may be compared. There is alsorn resemblance to Leea and 
some Ampelids. The leaf has a good deal of the character of some leaves 
of Vitis antarctica , Benth., a rather variable species, with larger and broader 
leaves and coarser venation than the fossil. On the whole, I consider that 
its affinities lie more with the Saxifrages than with any other group. In 
general form and character it may be compared with Argophyllites lexis, 
H.E., from Wingello, New South Wales,* and I have, therefore, named it as 
above, the specific name being given on account of its small size. 
Eucryphia Gregorii, sp. nov. 
Plate I., Fig. 9. 
Leaf or pinna narrow, ovate, obtuse, about 2 inches long and about j inch 
wide. Midrib well marked, lateral veins rather numerous, placed at an 
angle of about 60° or 70° with the midrib, losing themselves in the substance 
of the leaf before finally reaching the margin. 
The leaf figured in this is specimen No. 11. It bears such a striking 
resemblance to a pinna of Eucryphia Moorei, F. v. M., of New South Wales 
and Victoria, and to a leaf of E. Billardieri , Spach., of Tasmania, that I 
feel justified in including it under the same genus. 
Araliace^e. 
Genus Panacites, gen. nov. 
This genus is intended to include leaves similar to those of certain species 
of the living genus Panax , of which P. Gunnii is the type. The leaves are 
of a somewhat delicate or soft texture, probably digitate with three or 
five leaflets, the venation of the leaflets pinnate with the lateral veins 
running out towards the margin—the leaflets are lanceolate in shape and 
the margins toothed or sinuate. 
Panacites Howitti, sp. nov. 
Plate I., Fig. 8. 
Leaf or pinna slightly over 1^ inches in length, and about f inch broad ; 
slightly lopsided, with bluntly dentate or sinuate margins. Midrib slightly 
undulate, lateral veins somewhat numerous, slightly curved, making an 
angle of about 40° or 45° with the midrib, and terminating at the teeth. 
The fossil here described is preserved in specimen No. 10. It would be 
very easy to refer this leaf to Quercus, and if that were done it would only 
be following the example of Ettingshausen in his Contributions to the 
Tertiary Flora of Australia. It is, however, extremely unlikely that the 
genus Quercus should have flourished during the early Cainozoic in south¬ 
eastern Australia, and afterwards become exterminated. It is far safer to 
look to other and indigenous genera for affinities. 
The form and character of the leaf in question can, I consider, be found 
under the genus Panax , species of which flourish in eastern Australia and 
New Zealand, and which has a representative at the present day in Tas¬ 
mania. This idea of Panax as an eastern Australian genus would pro¬ 
bably be derived from such species as P. sambucfolius, P. elegans, P. Murrayi , 
&c., but there are other types more to the purpose. Panax Gunnii , J. Hooker, 
a Tasmanian species, has delicate trifoliolate leaves, very variable in shape, and 
some forms of the leaflets are very like the fossil, being irregularly dentate, 
and with the lateral veins generally only slightly conspicuous, but extend¬ 
ing to the points of the teeth. If we wish to see to what extent the leaves of 
* Deane, op. cit. 
