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Groups of India. Similar but fragmentary specimens from East 

 Africa have been referred by Potonie ' to the genus Voltziopsis. 



Not represented in the British Museum collection from the 

 Palaeozoic rocks. 



Seeds possibly belonging jo Voltzia. 



Feistmantel 2 has noticed the occurrence of numerous small ovoidal 

 seeds, slightly winged, in the (-r/osso^m's-bearing beds in India, 

 in association -with Voltzia. Zeiller 3 has figured some small ovoid, 

 pointed seeds from India, 3-4 mm. long, and 2-2*5 mm. broad, 

 -with a very narrow wing, which he is also inclined to attribute to 

 the same genus. A number of minute seeds from the Transvaal 

 were also figured by the same author 4 in 1896, but in this case he 

 did not offer any suggestion as to the plant to which they belong. 

 "While no doubt they are not of the same nature as those above 

 mentioned, they may, however, be compared with them. 



Genus ALBERTIA, Schimper & Mougeot, 1844. 

 [Monogr. Plant, foss. Gres bigarre, p. 14.] 



Coniferous trees, with numerous leaves, slightly stalked at the 

 base. Leaves oval, elongate, obtuse, spreading. 



Albertia occurs in the Bunter of the Northern Hemisphere, and 

 possibly also in the Permo-Carboniferous of India. 



The genus is not well known at present, and its affinities are 

 doubtful. Some of the leaves which have been referred to it 

 recall those of certain of the recent Araucariese, especially Agathis 

 Dammara. 



Albertia (?), sp., from India. 



Feistmantel 5 has described some axes bearing elongate, cuneiform 

 leaves, some of which appear to be deeply toothed at the apex. 



1 Potonie (00), p. 504, text-fig. 29. 



2 Feistmantel (82 1 ), p. 50. 



3 Zeiller (02 1 ), p. 39, pi. vii, figs. 9, 10. 



1 Zeiller (96 1 ), p. 374, pi. xvi, tig. 13 ; pi. xviii, tig. 10. 

 5 Feistmantel (79 l j, p. 29, pi. xxiv, fig. 3 ; pi. xxvi, Kg. 2 ; Ppl. xxiv, tigs. 1,2; 

 (80), p. 123. 



