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Also in beds regarded as Rhoetic in age, near the village of 

 Hsu-kia-ho, in the province of Sz'-tschwan, a Schizoneura was 

 found which has since been named by Mr. Seward 1 S. Krasseri. 



Zeiller 2 has recently published an account of some fossils from 

 Southern China. The Rhaetic flora of Tai-Pin-Tchang contains 

 Glossopteris indica, Feist., in association with Cladophlebis Roesserti 

 (Presl), a typical Rhsetic fern-like plant. Glossopteris indica is 

 also recorded from Kiang-Ti-Ho, and Professor Zeiller states that 

 this flora compares very closely with that of Tonquin. 



((?) Borneo. 

 Tenison-AVoods 3 has recognised in a collection of fossils from the 

 Sarawak Coalfield in Borneo, Phjllothcca australis and Virtebraria. 

 The latter is now known to be the rhizome of Glossopteris. 



III. Central and Northern Asia. 



The Altai and Siberia. 



Fossil plants from the Altai and Siberia have been described by 

 Goppert, 4 Eichwald, 5 Geinitz, 6 Schmalhausen, 7 and Kosmovsky. 8 

 Schmalhausen regarded this flora as of Jurassic age, but Zeiller 9 

 has since shown that it is more closely related to that of the 

 Permian rocks of Europe and North America. Phyllotheca, however, 

 is associated with this flora; one species, P. deliquescens (Gopp.), 

 described by Goppert and Schmalhausen, being also recorded 

 from Australia. 10 Zeiller 11 has also compared P. Stschuronowskn, 

 Schmal. with P. robusta, Feist, from the Lower Gondwanas of 

 India. In a recent paper, the same author 12 has concluded that 

 the plants described by Goppert and Geinitz under the name 

 Noeggerathia, and by Schmalhausen as Rhiptozamites, should be 

 referred to Cordaites. 



1 Seward (03 ), p. 48. • Zeiller (00-). 



3 Tenison-Woods (85), p. 584. J Goppert (45). 



5 Eichwald (60). 6 Geinitz (69), (71). 



" Schmarhausen (79), (83 1 ). 



8 Kosmovsky (91) ; see Zeiller (96-), p. 48 >. 



9 Zeiller (96'-), (02-). 10 Arber (02 1 ), pp. 17, 22. 

 11 Zeiller (96-'), p. 472. 



'- Zeiller (02 2 ), pp. 889-90 ; (96-), p. 486. 



