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internal cast of an Ortlds. I can assiu'e him that such is not the 

 case, and that I have seen similar casts associated with other 

 examples in full possession of their calcarous envelopes. 



Log. and Horizon. — Reid's Gap, near Townsville (G. Sioeet, 

 Colin. Sweet, Melbourne). Middle Devonian. 



PERMO-CARBONIFEROUS PLANTS. 



Section — Phanerogamia. 



Class DiCOTYLEDONES. 



Order-CYCADACEJE ? 



Family— NOEGGERATHIOPSID^. 



Genus — N o e g g e r A t n i o P s i s, O. Feistmantel. 



(Pal. Indica [Gondwana Flora], 1879, iii. Pt. 1, p. 23.) 



(PL XL. fig. 1.) 



Obs.—A peculiar leaf has been obtained from the Permo- 

 Carboniferous beds near Townsville, which is tentatively referred 

 to this genus. It is spathulate and acutely triangular, with the 

 distal end wanting, and tapering proximally to an obtusely 

 pointed petiole ; in all, as preserved, three inches long. A median, 

 longitudinally impressed line exists, similar to those seen in some 

 of the late Dr. O. Feistmantel's figures of Australian Noeggera- 

 thiopsis,* on each side of which the veins arrange themselves with 

 a certain degree of bilateral symmetry. The veins are coarse and 

 somewhat far apart, about fourteen on each side the median 

 groove, and the interspaces flattened. 



This leaf seems to approach nearest to iVoeggerathiopsis, so far 

 as the material at my command enables me to judge, but it is 

 different from any figured by Feistmantel in either his Indian, 

 Australian, or Tasmanian Memoirs. Possibly it may be an 

 undescribed genus. 



* iMem. Geol. Survey, N.S. Wales, Pal. No. 3, 1890, t. 21, f. 3 5. 



