Fossil Floras of Cape Colony. 



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also only partially preserved. The veins are fairly distinct ; they 

 diverge from the base, forking and occasionally anastomosing by 

 oblique cross-connections. 



Associated with Thinnfeldia and Plicpuicopsis. 



Other Specimens : h. An impression similar to that figured (pi. IX., 

 fig. 4) ; veins fairly clear. Associated with TkhmfeUlia and 

 Pho&nicopsis. 



Chiropteris zeilleri sp. nov. 



Text-figure 7. 



Leaf petiolate ; lamina more or less orbicular, deeply lobed into 

 broad segments with an irregularly lobed margin ; veins spreading 

 from the base, forked and anastomosing, forming long and compara- 

 tively broad polygonal meshes. 



Text-figure 7. (Nat. size.) 



Chiropteris zeilleri sp. nov. From a specimen from Cyphergat in the British 



Musemn (V. 3268). 



This species is founded on a single specimen from Cyphergat in 

 the British Museum Collection (V. 3268), shown in text-figure 7. 

 The t}^De- specimen is an imperfect leaf showing the upper part of a 

 jDetiole bearing a deeply lobed lamina, 7-5 cm. in depth and S-5 cm. 

 broad ; the sinus on the right-hand side of the lamina is preserved 

 intact, while those on the left are partially torn. 



