. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 104 GENERA OF XJNCEKTAIN POSITION [CH. Seivardia latifolia (Saporta). 1849. Otozamites latifolia Brongniart, Tableau, p. 106. 1872. Sphenozamiies latifoUus Schimpepi, Trait6, VoL n. p. 163. 1875. CycadoracUs armata Saporta, Plant. Jurass. p. 196, PL 117, fig. 1. WitMmia armata Seward, Wealden Flora, VoL n. p. 174, PL il. figs. 1,2; PL V. fig. 1. Sewwdia latifolia Zelller, ifiHments PaWobot. p. 233. 1895. 1900. This species is represented by woody axes, about 1 cm. in breadth reaching a length of 50 cm., from the "Wealden
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 104 GENERA OF XJNCEKTAIN POSITION [CH. Seivardia latifolia (Saporta). 1849. Otozamites latifolia Brongniart, Tableau, p. 106. 1872. Sphenozamiies latifoUus Schimpepi, Trait6, VoL n. p. 163. 1875. CycadoracUs armata Saporta, Plant. Jurass. p. 196, PL 117, fig. 1. WitMmia armata Seward, Wealden Flora, VoL n. p. 174, PL il. figs. 1,2; PL V. fig. 1. Sewwdia latifolia Zelller, ifiHments PaWobot. p. 233. 1895. 1900. This species is represented by woody axes, about 1 cm. in breadth reaching a length of 50 cm., from the "Wealden beds of Sussex, bearing more or less orbicular, entire, leaves or leaf-like. Fio. 674. Sewardia latifolia. Axis (A) and single leaf (B). (British Museum; f nat. size.) organs, 6 cm. or more long, in the axil of stout recurved spinous process'es (fig. 674, A, B). The leaves are sessile and the venation is of the Cydopteris type. Spinous axes of the same form had previously been described by Saporta from Kimeridgian rocks in France as Cycadorachis armata, but these show no indication of leaves and were regarded as Cycadean. In a letter written to me in 1895, shortly before his death, the Marquis of Saporta^ suggested 1 See also Saporta (75) A. p. 188, Pis. 112, 113. 2 Seward (95) A. p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles), 1863-1941. Cambridge : University Press
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