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mantel's figures ■■'■ of the stems of Schizoneura gonrhvanensis agree 

 very closely with figs. 5 and 6, pi. ix., and the fragmentary leaf-like 

 impressions with dark veins found in association with the African 

 stems are very similar to the Indian specimens of Schizoncura leaves. 

 The largest specimens of Schizoneura krasseri that I have seen 

 is one in the British Museum Collection (V. 2413) ; it consists of a 

 flattened stone-cast having a diameter of 10 cm. One node is 

 preserved, and an internode reaches a length of 20 cm. 



Plate IX., fig. 5 (308d). 

 Several flattened impressions of broad stems ; the one figured has 

 a breadth of 6 cm., but is imperfect. The internode extends for a 

 length of 7 cm., but only one node is seen on the specimen. The 

 preservation of the nodal region is not sufficiently good to show the 

 structural details ; many of the ridges are seen to be continued in a 

 straight line across the node, but some show a distinct alternation. 



Plate IX., fig. 6 (487d). 



A portion of an imperfect broad stem showing a rather more 

 clearly defined nodal region with a few small and indistinct pro- 

 tuberances probably marking the position of leaf-traces. On the 

 reverse side of the specimen there are a few fragmeiits of what may 

 be leaves with broad parallel veins about 2 mm. apart ; possibly 

 these may be leaves of Schizoneura. 



Other Specimens : B, good impression of stem showing a node and 

 indications of leaf-traces ; 104a, a piece of a narrower stem, 3 cm. 

 broad, showing a nodal construction; 481d, 484d (roots?); 485d, im- 

 pressions of stems, and roots? ; 488d (roots?) ; 489d, 494d, a well- 

 preserved specimen ; the surface of the ril)s shows fine longitudinal 

 striations, which no doubt indicate a woody structure ; 496d, ribs 

 rather broader. 



Genus STEOBILITES Schimper and Mougeot. 



Strobilites sp. 



(Possibly the strobilus of ScJiizonenra Krasseri, the plant represented 

 in pi. ix., figs. 5, 6.) 



The imperfectly preserved specimen shown in fig. 3, pi. ix. (486(1, 

 495d) is undoubtedly a strobilus bearing crowded appendages, pro- 



* Feistmantel (80), pis. i., ii. ix., &c. 

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