It consists of an axis 15 cm. long, the lower part forming a peduncle, and on the upper portion are linear bracts subtending oblong bodies which may be lateral fertile shoots. [Illustration: Fig. 484. _Pelourdea vogesiaca_. Reconstruction of a foliage-shoot. (After Wills.)] _Pelourdea hadroclada_ (Halle). Dr Halle[734] recently published an account of some imperfect leaves and stem-fragments from the Rhaetic of Scania which he named _Phyllotenia_ (_?_) _hadroclada_, the generic name provisionally adopted having been proposed by Salfeld[735] for some rather obscure remains from the Corallian of Germany. It appears to have escaped the notice of both authors that Saporta[736] in 1894 had adopted the designation _Phyllotenia_ for some examples of broad parallel-veined leaves from Lower Cretaceous rocks in Portugal very similar to Velenovský’s _Krammera mirabilis_[737]. Some other generic name must therefore be used. For the Rhaetic species the name _Pelourdea_ would seem appropriate. The type-specimen consists of an axis 10–12 mm. in diameter with spirally disposed transversely elongated leaf-scars bearing sessile linear leaves similar to _Poa-Cordaites_; none of them are complete, the largest is 6 cm. long and 5–7 mm. broad with 8–12 parallel veins. An examination of the original specimens in the Stockholm Museum satisfied me that Dr Halle is justified in the opinion that they may be fragments of some Cordaitalean plant and that he was well advised to avoid the use of the name _Cordaites_. Salfeld’s species, _Phyllotenia longifolia_, may be an imperfectly preserved example of _Phoenicopsis_[738], but the material is too incomplete to be identified with any degree of confidence. _Pelourdea Imhofi_ (Heer). The Triassic leaves from Switzerland described by Heer[739], and more recently by Leuthardt[740], as _Bambusium Imhofi_, were referred by Fliche[741] to the genus _Cordaites_. The lamina is ensiform, 25 cm. long with a maximum breadth of 2·4 cm. Leuthardt’s photograph of aerial stems and rhizomes of this supposed Monocotyledon are far from convincing. _Pelourdea keuperiana_ (Compter). The leaves from the Lower Keuper of Thuringia assigned by Compter[742] to _Cordaites_ without adequate evidence resemble those of _P. vogesiaca_, but there is no evidence as to their manner of attachment; they are 30–40 cm. long and from 1·5 to 2 cm. broad. _Pelourdea megaphylla_ (Phillips).