Fossil Floras of Cape Colony. 



29 



Cycadolepis jenkinsiaxa (Tate). 



Plate IV., figs. 3-6. 



Text-figure 2. 



1867. Cycloptcris jcnkinsiana, Tate, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 

 vol. xxiii., pi. vi., fig. 4, p. 146. 



Scale-leaves more or less orI)icular in shape, reaching a length 

 of rather more than 12 cm. and a breadth of almost equal 

 dimensions ; attached to the supporting organ by a broad 



^ 



y^jf:,iiS/4;i':/- : 



i' ■'! 





mm 



Text-figure 2. (Nat. size.) 

 Cijcadolejns jenkinsiuna (Tate). 



base. The lamina is traversed by a well-defined midrib consist- 

 ing of several parallel veins (fig. 5), but most of the veins spread 

 from the base towards the sides and distal edge, forking repeatedly 

 as in the Cyclopteris type of venation ; between and above the veins 

 occur numerous fine anastomosing and irregularly disposed Hnes 

 (figs. 4, 5) which present the appearance of the remains of a felt 

 of hairs which originally covered the whole lamina. The scale-leaf 



