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CONIFERALES (IXCERT.E SEDIS). 
Cf. Brachyphyllum sp. 
Fig. 44. 
Fig. 44 (36, allotment 55, Jumbunna).—This fragment, represented in the 
figure twice natural size, shows a few transversely elongated carbonaceous 
cushion-like projections about 4.5mm. broad, which may represent the scale- 
leaves of a coniferous twig of the Brachyphyllum type. 
TAXITES, BRONGNIART. 
Taxites, sp. 
Under this comprehensive generic name we may include a single fragment 
from the Jumbunna district, consisting of a small piece of a shoot bearing 
linear leaves traversed by a single vein, and terminating in an acuminate apex. 
The leaves are approximately 1.5cm. in length ; they taper towards the base, 
and appear to be irregularly disposed on the axis of the shoot. The specimen 
is no doubt a fragment of a coniferous branch, with spirally-arranged univeined 
leaves, similar to various mesozoic species referred to Taxites , Palissya , 
Sequoia, and other genera. A comparison may be made with Taxites zamioides 
(Leek, ex Bean MS.)* * * § from the Yorkshire oolite, T. planus , Feist., from the 
Tapper G-ondwanas of India,*j* and various other species. The fossil described 
by Tenison-Woods from Ipswich J is similar to the Jumbunna specimen, but the 
photograph which he gives is too indistinct to show the characters clearly. 
The specimens figured by Stirling§ as Palissya australis, McCoy, may well be 
identical with the fragment described above. 
FRAGMENT OF A CONIFER ? 
Fig. 45. 
Specimen 38, allotment 55, Jumbunna.—This fragment, 4mm. in diameter 
shown in the figure three times natural size, resolves itself, on magnification, 
into a number of small rounded bosses, separated from one another by an 
intervening depression ; the bosses appear to be arranged spirally, and each 
is marked by a central depression. Schenk,|| in his Rhaetic Flora, figures the 
slightly magnified surface of a portion of a shoot of Schizolepis Brauni, in which 
the points of attachment of the clustered leaves are represented by regular 
raised areas, each with a central depression. In all probability the fragment 
shown in Fig. 45 is part of a coniferous shoot which bore small crowded leaves, 
the cushions or bases of which form the bosses, while the exit of the leaf-traces 
is shown in the depressed dot in the centre of each' small boss. 
Locality. —Allotment 55, Jumbunna. 
GYMNOSPERALE (INCERTiE SEDIS). 
GENUS CARPOLITHES, STERNBERG. 
Carpolithes, sp. A. 
Fig. 46. 
Under this generic term we may include some small seeds which probably 
belonged either to a Cycadean plant or to a member of the Grinkgoales. There 
is little to be gained by giving a specific name to detached and imperfectly 
preserved seeds of doubtful affinity. 
* Seward (00), p. 300, PI. X., Fig. 5. 
t Feistmantel (79), Pis. XIII.—XV. 
j Tenison-Woods (83), p. 160, PI. IX., Fig. 3. 
§ Stirling (99), PI. 3, Figs. 8, 9. 
|| Schenk (67), PI. XLIV., Fig. 4a. 
