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PHYLLOTHECA. 



This species is very imperfectly known, only a few specimens 

 having been obtained from Dudrajpur, in the Rajmahal Hills, the 

 horizon of which is doubtfully assigned to the Raniganj group. 

 The union of the leaves into a sheath, near their attachment to 

 the node, is not very obvious in the figures given by Feistmantel. 

 If this plant is correctly assigned to the genus Phyllotheca, 

 the comparatively broad character of the free segments easily 

 distinguishes it from the other Phyllothecas belonging to 

 the Glossopteris flora. There is, however, a species occurring 

 in Altai Coalfields described by Scbmalhausen 1 as Phyllotheca 

 Stschuroivs/cii, which closely resembles the Indian plant, as 



Fig. 8. — Phyllotheca robusta, Feist. After Feistniantel. Nat. size. 



Feistmantel 2 and Zeiller 3 have already pointed out. Schmalhausen's 

 specimens, however, are too imperfect to justify a correlation. 



Known only from India. 



Not represented in the British Museum collection. 



6. Phyllotheca Etheridgei, sp. nov. 



(Text-fig. 9.) 



1895. Phyllotheca, sp., Etheridge, jun., Rec. Geol. Surv. New South "Wales, 



vol. iv, pt. 4, p. 148, pi. xvii, figs. 1-9 ; pi. xviii, fig. 3. 

 1902. Phyllotheca, sp., Zeiller, Pal. Indica, N.S., vol. li, p. 31. 



Type. Australian Museum, Sydney. 



Leaf -bearing stems articulate, faintly ribbed longitudinally. 

 Leaf- sheath large, narrow and clasping for about 3 mm. at the 

 base, but expanding above into an open peltate disc with a diameter 



1 Schmalhausen (79), p. 16, pi. iii, fig. lb; pi. iv, fig. lb ; pi. vi, figs. 2, 3. 



2 Feistmantel (80), p. 69. 



3 Zeiller (96 3 ), p. 472. 



