Fossil Floras of Cape Colony. Gf 



male flower of a member of the Ginkgoales. The radially disposed 

 oval bodies may be microsporangia differing chiefly in their greater 

 mimber from the usual type of the fossil male flowers of the Gink- 

 goales. 



Plate IX., figs. 2, 2a (12). 



A fragment of an axis 1"5 mm. broad with the remains of swollen 

 lateral branches bearing circular rosettes 5 mm. in diameter consisting 

 of fairly stout oval bodies attached by a narrow base and terminat- 

 ing in a bluntly rounded apex ; these oval bodies are thick and 

 rounded, and their surface shows a few longitudinal ridges. At a 

 (fig. 2a) one sees the remains of other similar appendages superposed 

 on the lower and more perfectly preserved ones. 



PLANTS OF DOUBTFUL POSITION. 

 Genus PHCENICOPSIS Heer. 



In instituting this genus for Jurassic specimens of linear leaves- 

 from Siberia, Heer defined it as follows : — 



" Folia coriacea, numerosa, inramulo abbreviato caduco fasciculata, 

 squamis compluribus persistentibus cincta, sessilia vel in petiolum 

 brevem sensim attenuata, indivisia, multinervia, nervis simplicibus, 

 paralleHs, densis." -'' 



We have no satisfactory evidence as to the botanical position of 

 Plicenicopsis, hut it has been referred to by Heer and other authors as 

 closely allied to Baiera and possibly a member of the Ginkgoales. 



Phcenicopsis elongatus (Morris). 

 Plate IX., figs. 1, 9, 10. 



1845. Zcwjopliijllites clongatus Morris, in Strzelecki's New South 



Wales, p. 250, pi. vi., figs. 5, 5a. 

 1882. Cf. Nosggerathiojjsis Hislopi Zeiller, Ann. des Mines, 



vol. ii. [8] , pi. xii., fig. 11. 

 1889. Podozainitcs {Zcugopliyllites) elongatns Feistmantel, Abh. 



K. bohm. Ges. Wiss., Bd. III., Folg. vii.,p. 68, pi. ii., 



fig. 13; pi. iii., figs. 3, 4, 7. 



Leaves linear, reaching a length of more than 16 cm. ; the lamina 

 is usually gradually tapered to an acuminate termination which may 



* Heer (77), p. 49. 



