PALEOZOIC PLANTS FllOM CHINA. 



III. Ta-p'u Ching-ching-Ting, Shêng-ching-Shêng.'* 



The coal-field of Ta-p'u is situated about 11 kilom. west of 

 the town of Hsien-ch'ang-^ in the south-eastern part of Sheng- 

 ching. According to Mr. Oinoue who collected the plants, the 

 coal-bearing series is made up of grey shales and sandstones, 

 underlaid by a brown-coloured sandstone below which there is 

 a dark limestone, and overlaid by a conglomerate. The coal- 

 seams are only two, the upper measuring about 0.6 m and the 

 lower 1-1.2 m in thickness. The coal is said to be a sort of 

 readily friable anthracite. 



The plants occur in a dark grey shale, and consist of a few 

 fragments of a Galamiie which presents some resemblance to 

 Calamités Suckoioi Brgt. of the Stephanian. But whether they 

 are Stephanian or Permo-Carboniferous like those of Pen-hsi-hu, 

 it is at present not possible to determine. 



IV. Ssu-ping-chieh, Ching-ching-Ting, Shêng-ching-Shêng.'^ 



About 23 kilom. east of Hsien-ch'ang, there is a place 

 called Ssu-ping-chieh near which there are two seams of semi- 

 anthracitic coal, 0,4 m and 1.2-l.om in thickness. They are 

 in a series consisting of sandstones and shales covering a dark 

 limestone. The sandstones are described as brown-coloured, while 

 the shales are said to be either grey or purplish-red. 



The plants which I received from Mr. Oinoue, who visited 



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