HISTORICAL SKETCH. Lwii 



Worcester, Cape Colony, and Vereeniging, Transvaal, are 



described : — 



Schizoneura, sp. (?). 



Glossopteris Browniana, Brong., var. uidica — G. indica, Schimper. 



G. Browniana, Brong., var. angnstifolia = G. an gusti folia, Brong. 



Gangamopteris cyelopteroides, Feist. 



Nenropteridiuni validum, Feist. 



Bothrodendron Lentil, sp. now 



Psyginophi/llnm Kidstoni, sp. nov. 



Noeggcrathiopsis Hislvpi (Bunb.). 



This memoir is remarkable as containing the first record of two 

 members of the Northern type of vegetation, Bothrodendron and 

 Psggmophgllum, in association with the Glossopteris flora, and also 

 for the first discovery of Neuropteridium 'validum in South Africa ; 

 an important and widely distributed plant elsewhere in the rocks 

 of Gondwanaland. 



This flora was further discussed by Leslie' in 1904. 



(c) Rhodesia. 



The only specimens which have been obtained from Ehodesia arc 

 those collected by Mr. Molyneux, which I described in 1903. 3 

 Glossopteris Browniana and other species of the same genus were 

 found at the Sisi siding on the Bechuanaland Railway. An obscure 

 Calamite-like pith-cast was also obtained from the Tuli Coalfield, 

 and specimens resembling decorticated Sigillarias from the Seng we 

 Coalfield in Northern Matabeleland. These fossils are in the 

 British Museum, and are described in the present volume. 



(d) Portuguese South-East Africa. 



In 1883, Zeiller 3 described an interesting flora from the Tete 

 Coalfield on the Zambesi. It consisted entirely of Upper Carboni- 

 ferous genera and species, which are among the most abundant 

 in Europe and North America. Pecopteris arborescent (Schl.), 

 Alethopteris Grandini (Brong.), Annularia stellata (Schl.), Spheno- 

 phyllum magus, Bronn, and Cordaites borassifolius (Sternb.) are some 



Leslie (04). • Arber (03). s Zeiller (83). 



