Fossil Floras of Cape Colony. 7S 



ultimate segment slightly enlarged with numerous irregular longi- 

 tudinal striations. 



OtJier Specimens : 17e, a fragment showing the termination of a 

 lateral l^i'anch ; 38e 



Plate XI., fig. 3 (6). 



A fairly well-preserved impression of an axis bearing sub- 

 opposite branches; both the main axis and the lateral members- 

 show a comparatively broad dark band which probably indicates 

 the presence of a midrib, a feature not seen in the other 

 specimens. 



III.— CONCLUSION. 



The following species have been recorded as representatives of 

 the Stormberg Flora : — 



Equisetales. 



Sclnzoncura kra-^acri sp. nov S.W. of Matatiele, Griqualand E., Tina 



Kiver. 

 Strohilite>< sp Tina Hiver. 



FiLICALES. 



Thinnfeldia odontopteroidcx (Morr.) Kenigha River, W. of Maclear, Griqua- 

 land E., S.W. Matatiele. 



Thinnfeldia rho)nboidalix Ett Stormberg. 



Cladophlehis sp. (Feistmantel) Indwe. 



Gallipteridiiim stormberrieniic sp. nov. . . Kenigha River. 



Tceniopteris carnitherd Ten. -Woods Kenigha River. 



Chiropteris cuneata (Garr.) Cyphergat. 



Chiropteris zeilleri sp. nov Cyphergat. 



GiNKGOALES. 



Ikiiera xtormberiicnxiA sp. nov Kenigha River. 



liaiera scltencki Feist Indwe, Stormberg. 



Plants of Doubtful Position. 



Fhxcuicopxis eloufiatux (^lovr.) Indwe, Molteno, Stormberg, Cyphergat. 



StenojiterU eloitiidta (Carr.) Kenigha River. 



The flora of the Stormberg series may I)e assigned to the Eheetic 

 period, a period of which the vegetation has left remnants in nearly 

 all parts of the world. In a paper on Rhaetic plants from Honduras, 

 Pi-of. Newberry ■'■ drew attention to the uniformity of the Ehgetic 

 vegetation both in the old and new worlds, and added : " We shall 

 * Newberry (88). 



