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(Brong.) forma atherstonei, Sphenopteris fittoni Sew., Zamites recta 

 (Täte), Z. morrisii (Täte), Z. africana (Täte), Z. rabidgei (Täte*, Cycado- 

 lepis jenkinsiana (Täte), and two new species, Nilssonia tatei, and 

 Araucarites rogersi. Other and less perfect specimens are referred to 

 the genera Sphenopteris, Taeniopteris, cf. T. arctica (Heer), Bernstedtia, 

 Carpozithes, Taxites, ßrachyphyllum, and Conites. Four of Tates type- 

 specimens are here re-figured. The rachis of Zamites recta, with two 

 alternating rows of prominent cushions obliquely inclined to one another, 

 is described and figured. 



The Uitenhage plants include types in part characteristic of the 

 Wealden, and in part indicative of Jurassic floras. On the whole, there 

 is a balance of evidence in favour of a Wealden horizon. The com- 

 parative paucity of species, and the fact that several forms are repre- 

 sented by small fragments render conclusions as to age somewhat 

 difficult, but the flora exhibits more well-defined points of contact with 

 Wealden age than with older floras. 



b) Stormberg Flora. This flora, of Rhaetic age, includes the 

 following new species Schizoneura Krasseri, Callipteridium Stormbergense y 

 Chiropteris Zeilleri, and Baiera stormbergensis, as well as examples of 

 Strobilites sp., Thinnfeldia odontopteroides (Morr.), T. rhomboidazis Ett., 

 Cladophlebis sp., Taeniopteris Carruthersi Ten-Woods, Chiropteris cu- 

 neata (Carr.)., Baiera Schencki Feist., Stachypitys, Phoenicopsis elongatus 

 (Morr.), and Stenopteris elongata (Carr.). 



The new species of Schizoneura is probably identical with one already 

 described by Krasser from China, and with S 1 . carrerei of Zeil ler 

 from Tonkin. Sphenopteris elongata (Carr.) is compared, not with the 

 Ferns, but with some shrubby xerophytic plant with branch-like leaves, 

 or with branches which played the part of leaves, as in the recent genus 

 Psilotum. 



c) Ecca Flora. The plants belonging to the Ecca series of 

 Worcester were fragments of Glossopteris sp., Gangamopteris cyclop- 

 teroidesf Feist, and Schizoneura sp. (?). From the Ecca beds at V e r- 

 eeniging, better preserved fragments were obtained, and these include 

 three generic types, Psygmophyllum, Neuropteridium, and a Lepidodendroid 

 stem hitherto unknown from South Africa. The occurrence of the 

 genus Neuropteridium is important as an additional link between the 

 Lower Gondwana floras of India and South America on the one 

 hand, and the South African flora on the other. The genera Psygmo- 

 phyllum and Bothrodendron suggest interesting comparisons, from the 

 point of view of geological distribution, between South Africa and 

 European Palaeozoic floras. The new species are Bothrodendron Leslii, 

 Psymophyllum kidstoni, and the following species are also recorded: 

 Glossopteris Browniana Brong, var. indica, and var. angustifolia, Ganga- 

 mopteris cyclopteroides Feist., Neuropteridium validum, and Noeggera- 

 thiopsis hislopi (Bunb.). On the whole it would seem probable that the 

 age of the plant beds at Vereeniging corresponds most nearly to the 

 Upper Carboniferous period as represented in Europe, and that they 

 may be correlated with the K a rh a rb a ri beds of the Lower Gondwanas of 

 India. The occurrence of such types as Sigillaria, Bothrodendron, and 

 Psygmophyllum shows a closer correspondence between the South 

 African flora and that of the Northern Hemisphere than occurs in the 

 Indian Vegetation. 



d) Witteberg Series. From this series, a small and obscure 

 fragment of a Lepidodendroid plant, and the problematical fossil Spiro- 

 phyton are described. The latter is regarded as not of plant origin. 



Arber (Cambridge). 



Ausgegeben: 22. Marse 1904. 



Commissions -Verlag: E. J. B ri 11 in Leiden (Holland). 

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