BY THE REV. J. E. TENISON-WOODS, F.G.S., F.L.S. 151 



Otozamites mandeslohi Kurr, Beitrage Foss. Flora d. Juraform. 

 Wiirttemb., p. 10, tab. 1, fig. 3. (as Zamites). Leaves long linear, 

 gradually narrowed towards the apex, 25 niillim. wide. Leaflets 

 densely crowded, oblique, alternating, inserted on the rachis with 

 contiguous bases, ovate oblong, obtuse, base sub-cordate, 14 millhn. 

 long, 8 broad, nerves close, diverging. 



On this species, Dr. Feistmantel says (op. cit. pi. xii., a fig. 6). 

 " This is the first Otozamites identified from Australia. From upper 

 mesozoic beds, Queensland, Talgai diggings. It appears to be 

 very close to 0. mandeslohi, a Liassic species, to which I refer it 

 for the present." Also Toowoomba, common. 



Zeugophyllites. Brongniart. 



Fronds (?) petiolate, pinnate, pinnse opposite (?) oblong, nerves 

 valid few, equal, becoming confluent at the base and apex. 



This is the diagnosis which Brongniart originally gave of the 

 genus from specimens which came from Ramiganj in India. 

 Subsequently in 1844, in his " Tableau des generes de Vegetaux 

 fossiles, he says : — " Under this name (Zeugophyllites} I have 

 described a pinnatifid form of Monocotyledonoas leaf, resembling 

 such Palm leaves as Calamus. Desmoncus, &c , whose leaflets have 

 many principal nerves and are not bent into a keel on the median 

 line. In the only species (then) known the leaves are opposed as in 

 some species of Calamus"* 



At first Dr. Feistmantel was inclined to think that this was a 

 species of Schizoneura. This it will be remembered is an Indian 

 equisetaceous plant, the sheaths of which are united and stem 

 clasping. Subsequently they divide along sutural lines which 

 look like nerves. But there is clearly no such division here, and 

 neither Scbimper, Morris, nor M'Coy, took that view. Still I 

 cannot adopt the opinion that these leaves have anything to do 

 with palms like Calamus. A comparison of the leaves will at once 

 show the d ifFerence. Besides these plants have evidently grown in 

 marshy places in company with the true Equisetum. Now though 

 Calamus is found in moist jungle, it hardly seems to be of such a 



*Ita Feistmantel op. cit. p. 95. 



