It is noteworthy that in another Palaeozoic genus, Walchia, the leaf-bearing branches are identical in appearance with those of the Norfolk Island Pine (Fig. 17) and some other species of Araucaria. Unfortunately our knowledge of the reproductive organs of Walchia is insufficient to warrant any definite statement as to the degree of consanguinity between this Permian and Upper Carboniferous plant and the Araucarieae; it is probable that in Walchia we have a type not far removed from the line of evolution which led to Araucaria. Petrified wood, identified as that of Walchia, and exhibiting the Araucarian type of structure, has been recorded from Permian rocks of the Vosges. Other instances might be quoted in support of the view that the Palaeozoic floras included a few plants with which the surviving Araucarieae may fairly claim relationship. Professor Zeiller of Paris has recently described some fossil shoots from Palaeozoic rocks in India under the name _Araucarites Oldhami_ on the ground of the similarity of the leaves to those of _Araucaria imbricata_. Similarly, from Triassic rocks several fossils have been described as closely allied to Araucaria, in some cases because of anatomical resemblances and in others on the less satisfactory evidence furnished by a similarity in the foliage shoots. Professor Jeffrey of Harvard has recently given an account of a new type of stem (Woodworthia) from the petrified Triassic forest of Arizona possessing some Araucarian characters, though differing from existing species of Araucaria in certain structural features, a combination of characters regarded by this Author as an indication of relationship with the family of Conifers, which includes the Pines, Firs, Larches and other well-known northern genera.