Fossil Floras of Cape Colony. 



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U.—STOBMBERG FLOBA. 



Plates VII.-IX., XI., figs. 2, 3. 

 Text-figures 6 and 7. 



I.— INTEODUCTION. 



The plants included in this section were obtained from the following 

 localities : Maclear and neighbourhood, Tina Eiver, Kenigha Eiver, 

 Matatiele, Edward's Hope, Cyphergat, Molteno, and Stormberg. 

 The most important account of the flora of this uppermost division 

 of the Karoo formation is that by Feistmantel," who refers to the 

 Stormberg beds as probably of Lias-Ehaetic age. The floras of other 

 regions — Scania and Franconia in Europe, Australia, and the Argen- 

 tine Eepublic in the Southern hemisphere — with which the African 

 plants are most nearly allied are usually described as Ehaetic in age, 

 and there is little doubt that the Stormberg flora should be regarded 

 as a member of the EhaBtic vegetation. Feistmantel records the 

 following species from Indwe Eiver, Stormberg, Cyphergat, and 

 Molteno :— 



Feistmantel (1889). 



Equisetaceous stem fragment. 



S2)heno2)tcri>' clongata Carr. 



Thinnfeldia odontopteroides (Morr.).] 

 Thinnfeldia trilohita (?) Johnst. j 



Tceniopteris carruthersi T. -Woods. [ 

 Tceniopteris daintreei McCoy. J 



AntliropJnjopsis (?) sp. 



AletltoptL'vh sp. (cf. Afiplenimn nehbense 

 Heer). 



Podozamitt'i (ZeinjojyJnjllites) elongatits\ 



(Morr.). ' " \ 



Podozamites [Zeugophyllite^) sp. J 



Seward (1903). 

 I Equisetaeeons stem fragment. 

 Stenopteris elongata (Carr.). 



Thinnfeldia odontopteroides (Morr.) . 

 Tceniopteris carruthersi T. -Woods. 



Chiropteris elongata (?) (Carr.). 

 Cladophlehis sp. 



Phcenicojisis elongata (Morr.). 



Baiera schencki Feist. 



Baiera schencki Feist. 

 * Feistmantel (89). 



