1 HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



II. Eastern Asia, etc. 



(a) Tonquiu. 



The flora of the plant-bearing beds of Tonqnin has been described 

 by Zeiller 1 in a series of papers published from 1882 onwards. 

 Quite recently these results have been collected in the form of 

 a monograph. 2 The beds are regarded as of Rhaetic age, and it 

 will, therefore, only be necessary to notice such members of the 

 Glossopteris flora as have been recorded in association with the 

 Rhaetic flora. 



Glossopteris indica, Schimper. 



G. angustifolia, Brong. 



Nbeggerathiopsis Hislopi (Bimb.). 



Taheovittaria Kurzi, Feist. 



Teeniopteris spatulata, M'Clelland. 



T. cf. M'Clellandi (Oldham & Morris). 



Daiueopsis cf. Haghesi, Feist. = Sphenopteris cf. Hughesi (Feist.). 



(b) China. 



The fossil plants of Palaeozoic age described by Schmalhausen, 3 

 Newberry, 4 Schenk, 5 Abbado, 6 and Zeiller 7 from different parts of 

 China are all typical members of the flora of the Northern 

 Hemisphere, whereas the earlier memoirs of Newberry and 

 Brongniart relate to fossils of apparently Jurassic age. 



Krasser 8 has figured several species from China and Central 

 Asia collected by M. Obrutschew during the years 1893-1894. 

 These plants are of different ages, and from various localities. 

 Some of them, such as Lepidodendron cf. JIaidingeri, Ett., and 

 Cordaites cf. principalis (Germ.), are members of the northern type 

 of Permo-Carboniferous flora. But from San-schi-li-pu, in the 

 province of Schen-si, two typical members of the Glossopteris flora 

 were obtained, namely, Danceopsis Hughesi, Feist., and leaves 

 resembling Noeggerathiopsis Hislopi (Bunb.). 



Zeiller (82 1 ), (82'-), (86 1 ), (86-). 2 Zeiller (02 :i ). 



Schmalhausen (83'), p. 432. 4 Newberry (83). 



Schenk (83), (85). 6 Abbado (00), p. 127. 



Zeiller (01), p. 431. 8 Krasser (00). 



