Fossil Floras of Cape Colony. 79* 



Genus GANGAMOPTEEIS McCoy. 



Gangamoptekis cyclopteeoides (?) Feist. 



One small and very obscure fragment (specimen Y) from Wor- 

 cester is no doubt a fragment of Gancjamopteris ; it agrees closely 

 with Feistmantel's figure of G. cyclopteroides var. attenuata from the 

 Kimberley series,''' but the specimen is too poor to determine. 



Genus SCHIZONEUEA Schimper and Mougeot. 



SCHIZONEUEA Sp. (?) 



A single specimen (338) from Worcester consists of small and 

 very obscure impressions of what are probably pieces of a Scliizo- 

 ncura stem, also a fragment of an Equisetaceous stem (351) on a 

 piece of sandstone from a kopje 5 miles north of Worcester. 



Three other specimens (104a, 110a, Ilia) from the Tuin Kraal 

 Eiver agree in the crowded internodal ribs with the Stormberg 

 examples shown in figs. 5, 6, pi. ix., but they may also be closely 

 matched with specimens of Schizoneura gonchvanesis Feist, from 

 India, and with impressions from more than one geological horizon. 



The available evidence is insufficient to throw much light on the 

 age of the Worcester and Tuin Kraal rocks, but it is not unfavour- 

 able to the view that the beds in question are correctly placed on the 

 horizon of the Ecca series. 



iy.— ECCA PLANTS FEOM VEEBENIGING. t 



The specimens recently collected in the Vereeniging sandstones 

 by Mr. Leshe are of especial interest as including three generic 

 types, Psygmophylluvi, Neuropteridium, and a Lepidodendroid stem 

 hitherto unknown from South Africa. The genus Neuropteridium is 

 important as an additional link between the Lower Gondwana floras 

 of India and South America on the one hand, and the South African 

 flora on the other. The genera Psygmophyllum and Botlirodendron 

 suggest interesting comparisons, from the point of view of geological 

 distribution, between South African and European Palaeozoic floras. 



* Feistmantel (89), pi. iv., fig. 2. 



t These plants are described here for comparison with the plants of the same 

 age found within the limits of Cape Colony. 



