Fossil Floras of Cape Colony. 



89* 



good to allow of specific determination, l)ut there can l)e little doul)t 

 that the fragment belonged to a Lepidodendroid plant. 



Text-figure 8. 



Lepidodendroid stem. (Nat. size.) 

 From a specimen in the British Museum (V. 236). 



A few other fragments in the Museum Collection (V. 2424) are 

 stated to have been obtained from a locality near Port Alfred, Kowie 

 mouth. 



An obscure specimen (V. 242.3), which may represent a fragment 

 of a Lepidodendroid plant (? Botltrodendron), was found in a boulder 

 from the Prince Albert Eange, possibly from the Wittebei'g. The 

 Museum Collection also includes similar fragments from Lower 

 Albany (V. 240), which may be of Devonian age.''- In addition to 

 these fragments there are two imperfectly preserved sandstone casts 

 obtained by Mr. Draper from Zwartkoppies, Vredefort, in the Orange 

 River Colony, which are no doubt partially decorticated stems of 

 some Lepidodendroid plant. 



It is possible that the specimen represented in text-figure 8 and 

 that from the Prince Albert Eange may be of Devonian age. In 

 this connection it may be mentioned that a small specimen from 

 Witteberg included in the collection recently sent to me (No. 53a) is 

 in all probability a fragment of a Lepidodendroid stem. 



* An example of a Lepidodendroid plant is referred to hy Mr. Draper in his paper 

 of 1897, p. ;3ia. 



