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represent the basal end, but occasionally the leaf ends in a bluntly 

 rounded apex which may be the distal termination.* Veins numerous, 

 parallel, usually simple and not dichotomously branched. The 

 numerous parallel veined linear leaves from Cyphergat, of which 

 portions are shown in pi. ix., figs. 1 and 9, agree closely with 

 Morris's species, Zeugopkijllites elongatus, from the Jerusalem Basin, 

 Tasmania.! The type-specimen of Morris's Jerusalem Basin plant, 

 Zcugopliyllites elongatus, which has recently been found by Mr. Arber 

 in the British Museum Collection (V. 7512), convinces me of the 

 identity of the Tasmanian and South African leaves. 



The same name has been applied by Szajnocha| to a fragment 

 from Cacheuta, which may not, however, be identical with Morris's 

 type. Some specimens of linear leaves from South America in the 

 British Museum Collection are undoubtedly identical with Morris's 

 species. Feistmantel has figured several leaf fragments from the 

 Stormberg beds which he speaks of as Podozamites [Z eugopliyllitcs) 

 elongatus (Morris) ;§ these are no doubt identical with the specimens 

 represented in pi. ix., figs. 1, 9 and 10. It is possible that these leaves 

 may be correctly referred to the genus Podozamites, but I am disposed 

 to regard them as more probably examples of Heer's genus P/iceuJcojJsfs, 

 similar to P.speciosaoi Jurassic age.|| Krasser has figured several 

 leaves very similar to mine from China which he refers to a new 

 species Pho&nicopsis media IT ; one of his figures shows clearly that 

 the leaves converge in groups to a common point of origin, but in 

 the scattered fragments from Cyphergat it is impossible to recognise 

 any such orderly arrangement. It is very difficult to determine 

 with any degree of accuracy isolated leaves of the type of 

 Phmnicopsis or Nceggerathiojjsis ; Zeiller's Tongking specimens may, 

 I believe, be identical with Morris's species from New South Wales, 

 but as Prof. Zeiller points out, in a letter written in reply to my 

 suggestion, there is no evidence in the specimens he has seen to 

 warrant the conclusion that they were borne in bundles like Heer's 

 examples of Phmnicojjsis . A similar leaf is figured also by Broun 

 from the Lettenkoble of Eaibl ■■'* as a monocotyledonous leaf. The 

 bluntly terminated leaf fragment from Molteno shown in fig. 10 



* Cf. Heer (77), pis. xxviii., xxix. 



t Morris, ia Strzelecki (45), p. 250, pi. vi., figs. 5, 5a. 



I Szajnocha (88), pi. ii., fig. 4, 



§ Feistmantel (89), p. 68, pi. ii., fig. 13 ; pi. iii., figs. 3, 4, 7. 



II Heer (77), pis. xxviii., xxix. 



1i Krasser (00), pi. iii., fig. 4; pi. iv., fig. 2. 

 ** Bronn (58), p. 135, pi. vii., fig. 4. 



