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ultimate segment slightly enlarged with numerous irregular longi- 

 tudinal striations. 



Other Specimens : lie, a fragment showing the termination of a 

 lateral l^ranch ; 38e 



Plate XI., fig. 3 (6). 



A fairly well-preserved impression of an axis bearing sub- 

 opposite branches ; both the main axis and the lateral members- 

 show a comparatively broad dark band which probably indicates 

 the presence of a midrib, a feature not seen in the other 

 specimens. 



III.— CONCLUSION. 



The following species have been recorded as representatives of 

 the Stormberg Flora : — 



Equisetales. 



Schizoneura krci'^seri sp. nov S.W. of Matatiele, Griqualand E., Tina 



River. 

 Strohilites sp Tina Eiver. 



FiLICALES. 



Thinnfcldia odontopteroides (Moit.) .... Kenigha Eiver, W. of Maclear, Griqua- 

 land E., S.W. Matatiele. 



Thinnfeldia rhomhoidaliA Ett Stormberg. 



Cladoplilehis sp. (Feistmantel) Indwe. 



Callipteridiam stormher(jensc sp. nov. . . Kenigha Eiver. 



Tceniopteris carrutherd Ten. -Woods .... Kenigha Eiver. 



Chiropteris cuneata (Carr.) Cyphergat. 



Chiropteris zeilleri sp. nov Cyphergat. 



GiNKGOALES. 



Baiera stormherrjemis sp. nov Kenigha Eiver. 



Baiera schencki Feist Indwe, Stormberg. 



Plants of Doubtful Position. 



Phoenicopsis elongatns (Morr.) Indwe, Molteno, Stormberg, Cyphergat, 



Steiiopteris elongata (Carr.) Kenigha Eiver. 



The flora of the Stormberg series may be assigned to the Ehaetic 

 period, a period of which the vegetation has left remnants in nearly 

 all parts of the world. In a paper on Ehaetic plants from Honduras, 

 Prof. Newberry ='= drew attention to the uniformity of the Ehaetic 

 vegetation both in the old and new worlds, and added : " We shall 



* Newberry (88). 



