62 Annals of the South African Museum. 



to CJiiroptcris should probably be included in a distinct genus, one 

 of them — C. spatulata — may be a species of Sagen pteris.'''~ The 

 Chilian fossil referred by Solms-Laubach f to Kurr's genus differs in 

 the form of the leaf and in the more crowded veins from the African 

 species. 



Chiropteris cuneata (Carruthers). 

 Plate IX., fig. 4. 



1872. Cycloptcris cuneata Carruthers, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 



vol. xxviii., p, 355, pi. xxvii., fig. 5. 

 1889. ? Anthrophijojxsis sp. Feistmantel, Abh. k. bohm. Ges. Wiss. 



Folge, vii., Bd. III., p. 67, pi. ii., fig. 4. 



Leaves cuneate in form, the lamina traversed by numerous 

 spreading veins, dichotomously forked and occasionally anastomosing 

 by oblique cross veins. 



Carruthers thus defined the species Cyclopteris cuneata, which he 

 founded on a specimen from the Tivoli Coal-mine, Queensland : — 



" Form of the entire frond unknown ; pinnas entire, large, cuneate, 

 narrowed at the base, with the distal margins rounded ; veins deli- 

 cate, once or twice dichotomously divided ; sometimes anastomosing 

 once in their length near the middle of the pinna." \ 



The type-specimen in the British Museum (V. 4197) is accurately 

 represented in Carruthers' figure ; the veins are very obscure. The 

 anastomosing veins which are described by Carruthers and shown 

 in the specimen represented in pi. ix., fig. 4, and still more clearly 

 in a better specimen from the Stormberg beds in the British Museum 

 Collection (V. 2498), render Cyclopteris unsuitable as a generic 

 designation. 



It is by no means unlikely that the fragment of a leaf figured by 

 Feistmantel from Cyphergat as Anthrophyopsis (?) § may be identical 

 wdth the plant represented in pi. ix., fig. 4, An imperfect specimen 

 figured by Fontaine from North American Triassic beds 1| as Sagen- 

 opteris rhoifolia bears a distinct resemblance to the Stormberg leaf. 



Plate IX., fig. 4 (C). 

 The distal margin of the wedge-shaped leaf is rather torn and 

 incomplete ; the thin lamina tapers towards the base, which is 



* Newberry (91), p. 198, pi. xiv., figs. 1, 2, 10, 11. 



f Solms-Laubach (99), pi. xiii., figs. 1-4. 



+ Carrnthers (72), p. 355, pi. xxvii., fig. 5. 



§ Feistmantel (89), p. 67, pi. ii., fig. 4. || Fontaine (83), pi. xlix., fig. 5. 



