NOEGGERATHIOrSIS. 187 



Zeiller 1 has recently pointed out that this species is also, in all 

 probability, a member of the group Cordaitales. 



The leaf from Argentina, named by Kurtz 2 Noeggerathiopsis 

 Hislopi, var. eurgphylloides, appears to be a basal portion of a frond 

 of this type. 



iV. Whittiana is known from the Karharbari Series in India, 

 and from Argentina. 



Not represented in the British Museum collection. 



3. Noeggerathiopsis (?) Stoliczkana (Feistmantel). 



(Text-fig. 38.) 



1876. Glossozamites Stoliczkanus, Feistmantel, Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. ix, 



pt. 4, p. 142. 

 1879. G. Stoliczkanus , Feistmantel, Flora Gondw. Syst., vol. iii, pt. 1, p. 19, 



pi. xx, figs. 4, 5. 

 18S1. G. Stoliczkanus, Feistmantel, ibid., vol. iii, pt. 3, p. 117. 



Type. Nos. 5034-5, Mus. Geol. Surv. India, Calcutta. 



Leaf simple (?), oblong, slightly unsymmetrical. Apex broadly 

 rounded. Base truncated, broad, lateral angles slightly rounded. 

 Nerves somewhat radiating in the basal portion, becoming very 

 erect, sub-parallel, and dichotomising once or twice at a very acute 

 angle. 



Feistmantel has figured as Glossozamites Stoliczkanus a single 

 specimen of a leaf from the Karharbari Beds in India, which he 

 regarded as a pinnule of a Cycadean frond, and not as a member 

 of the genus Noeggerathiopsis . This conclusion was founded on 

 the nature of the broad, truncated base, which he interpreted 

 as evidence of insertion on a rachis in a similar manner to the 

 pinnules of the Cycadean fronds of Mesozoic age included in 

 Schimper's genus Glossozamites. There is no reliable evidence, 

 however, as to the mode of attachment, and it seems to me im- 

 possible to overlook the great similarity which this leaf presents 

 to Noeggerathiopsis Hislopi, both in its nervation and the general 

 habit other than the characters of the basal portion. In the case 

 of N. Hislopi also the mode of attachment is unknown. Thus, 

 on the present evidence, it would seem to me safer provisionally to 



1 Zeiller (02), p. 38. • Kurtz (94°-), p. 132, pi. iv, fig. 3. 



