CYCLOPITTS. 



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He has compared thern with Albert ia speciosa of Schimper & 

 Mougeot, but their characters do not agree in several respects 

 with those of that species, and their generic determination is ut 

 present not free from doubt. 



These leaves are known only from the Karharbari Group of India. 



Not represented in the British Museum collection. 



Genus CYCLOPITYS, Scbmalhausen, 1879. 



[Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., ser. vn, vol. xxvii, p. 39.] 



Leaves whorled, linear, acute, traversed by a median nerve, 

 slightly wrinkled transversely. 



This genus was instituted by Schmalhausen for some leaves of 



Fig. 49. — Cyclopitys dichotoma, Feist. After Feistmantel. § uat. size. 



the Coniferous type occurring in Permian rocks, which he compared 

 with those of the recent conifer Sciadopttys, and included in the 

 recent familv Taxoidiese. Similar leaves were later described frum 



