NOTES ON THE AUSTRALIAN THNIOPTERIDER. 391 
Etheridge, Geo]. and Pal. Q’land, 1892, p. 371. 
McCoy, in Stirling (J.), Reports on Vict. Coal-tields, Dept. 
Mines Vict., Spec. Repts., 1892, p. 12, t. 2, f. 11, 12. 
Etheridge, Ann. Rept. Dept. Mines N. 8. Wales for 1892 
[1893], p. 172. 
Pittman (KE. F.), Ann. Rept. Dept. Mines N. 8S. Wales for 
1895 [1896], p. 121, 122. 
Pittman (H. F.), and David (T. W. E.), Mem. Geol. Survey 
N.S: Wales, Pal. 9, 1895, p. xi. 
Dun (W. 8.), Ann. Rept. Dept. Mines N. 8. Wales for 
1895 [1896], p. 188, 189. 
Dun (W. 8.), Ann. Rept. Dept. Mines N. 8. Wales for 
1896 [1897], p. 153. 
T. spatulata, McLelland, Shirley ; Add. Foss. Flora. Q’land, 
1897,-p:.27, 
This-fern was first described by Sir Frederick McCoy, in 1875,* 
with the following diagnosis :—“ Frond very long, linear, parallel- 
sided, substance thick, edges straight, midrib thick, very strong ; 
veins extending at right angles from the midrib to the lateral 
margins, a few straight and simple, the greater number once forked 
at a variable distance between the midrib and lateral margin. 
Usual width of frond, 4 lines; about 10 or 11 lateral veins in the 
space of 2 lines at the margin (both of ordinary specimens, 4 lines 
wide, and one young fragment nearly 2 inches long, but only 14 
line wide throughout).” 
Sir Frederick remarks that, in its coriaceous nature and thick- 
ness of midrib, this fern is more like “‘the Cycadaceous Stangerites 
than any other [7eniopteris| I know.”+ Messrs. Oldham and 
Morris,{ in their “ Fossil Flora of the Rajmahal Hills,” referred 
the species Zeniopteris acuminata, McClelland, spatulata, McClel- 
land and enszs, Oldham, to the genus Stungerites of Bornemann. 
This genus was created in 1856 to take in those leaves previously 
known as “ Teniopteris, but which resembled the recent Stangeria, 
a plant now known to be Cycadeous, but at first considered to be 
a fern.”|| Their reason for classing these forms as Cycads seems 
to be based to a great extent on their pinnate nature and the 
absence of signs of fructification on their specimens; at the same 
time they consider also that some of the simple forms as described 
by Brongniart, may be ferns. The Cycadaceous nature of these 
plants does not, however, seem to have been accepted, and in a 
succeeding part of the same work Dr. Feistmantei{] ranges the 
* Prod. Pal. Vict., Dec. ii, p. 15, t. 14, f. 1-2. 
+ Op. cit., p. 16. 
t Pal. Indica (Gondwana Flora), 1863, i, Part 1, pp. 32-25, t. 6, t. 23. 
§ Ueber organische Reste der Letten Kohlengruppe Thiiringens, 1856, p. 59. 
|| Oldham and Morris, op. cit., p. 33. 
J Op. cit., p. 95. 
