NOTES ON THE AUSTRALIAN TANIOPTERIDE., 387 
The leaves of this fern resemble those of the Australian 
Asplenium (Neottopteris) nidus. 
In Zittel’s Paleophytologie, Schimper gives a fuller description: 
“Fronds simple, sometimes more than two feet long and six inches 
wide ; ribbon-like, apex rounded or slightly pointed ; they appear 
to have had a membranous consistency ; lateral veins springing at 
an acute angle, then sharply curved towards the margin or almost 
horizontal, the upper ones only oblique, bifurcate at the base or 
simple, close together.” 
Range.— Keuper—Oolite. 
4, Oleandridium, Schimper. 
(Traité Pal. Vég., 1869, i, p. 607.) 
“Fronds simple, lanceolate-elongate or tongue-shaped, coriaceous. 
Fructification similar to that of the Aspideacez.”—Schimper. 
Distribution.—Mesozoic-Tertiary. Recent ally, Cleandra 
5, Angiopteridium, Schimper. 
(Traité Pal. Vég., 1869, i, p. 602.) 
Tn this subdivision of Zeniopteride the fronds are pinnate, with 
articulated pinnules, deciduous. The sori are transversely convex 
and linear, marginal. 
This genus is very like the recent Angiopteris. The pinne are 
typically long and strapshaped. The genus commences in the Trias 
and ascends to the Tertiary. 
Distribution.—Lower Mezozoic. Recent ally, Angiopteris. 
6. Danzopsis, Heer. 
(Schimper, Traité Pal. Vég., i, p. 613.) 
In his first work, Schimper placed this under the Tzeniopteridez, 
and was followed by other writers on the genus. In his contribu- 
tion to Zittel’s Paleontologie, however, it is removed from that 
position and placed under the Marattiacez, which he makes to 
include the following fossil forms showing fructification Marattia 
(Rheetic and Lias, Recent), Dancettes (Upper and Lower Creta- 
ceous), Dancopsis (Keuper and ? Permian, sterile fronds), and 
Danea (lias). He defines the genus in these words ‘“ Fronds 
very large, petiole thick, simply pinnate, pinnules large, rather 
. far apart from one another, connected to one another at the bases 
