NOTES ON THE AUSTRALIAN TNIOPTERIDES. 399 
This species is classed with the Indian on account of the coarse 
neuration “and the uniform manner in which the veins divide 
close to the midrib.” Mr. Etheridge states that, as preserved, the 
leaf is fifteen inches long and probably five inches wide. He com- 
pares it to M. lata, Oldham and Morris, but the frond is more 
delicate and the veins finer and closer. 
The Australian specimen was collected at Wycarbah, near 
Rockhampton. 
Macrotieniopteris Woodsi, Lth. fil. 
Etheridge, R., jun., Geol. & Pal. Q’land, 1892, p. 377. 
Near M. Wianamatte, Feist. ‘On emerging from the midrib, 
or costa, the veins are strong and about one thirty-second of an 
inch apart, but after bifurcation they become exceedingly fine and 
close together. The subdivision takes place near the rachis, and 
in this it differs from the species abovenamed, in which bifurcation 
is much nearer the margin.” 
I venture to think that this species, which is only tentatively 
considered as new by Mr. Etheridge, is nothing but a variety of 
Wianamatte. This appears to be borne out by Mr. Etheridge’s 
remarks on Jf. Wianamatie on the preceding page, when, in 
speaking of Tenison Woods’ remarks that what appears to be a 
similar specimen might be another species, he says, “‘ This separa- 
tion will hardly, therefore, hold good.” 
This specimen is from the Tivoli Coal-mine, Ipswich, Queensland. 
Genus—Phyllopteris, Brongniart, 1849. 
(Fide Saporta, Pal. France, Pl. Jurassiques, 1873, i, p. 448.) 
Phyllopteris Feistmanteli, Hth. fil. 
Geol. and Pal. Q’land, 1892, p. 375. Etheridge in Brown 
(H.Y.L). Further Geol. Exam. Leigh’s Creek and Hergott 
Springs, p. 3, t. 1, f. 1, 2. (Fol., Adelaide, 1892. By 
Authority). 
Sp. Char.—‘ Frond, or leaflet, oval, or broadly lanceolate, 
slightly petiolate ; midribs very distinct, evanescing towards the 
apex of the leaflet, but tapering very slowly ; veins springing out- 
wards from the midribs at a very acute angle, then gracefully 
curving outwards to the margin, fine, once or twice furcate.”— 
Etheridge. 
This species has been collected from Stewart’s Creek, Stanwell, 
near Rockhampton, and the Styx River Coal-shaft, Styx River, 
Broad Sound, Queensland, from rocks of the Ipswich formation. 
In South Australia it occurs in the Leigh’s Creek Coal-field of the 
same age. 
Some imperfect leaves of Phyllopteris occur at Cockabutta 
Mountain, near Talbragar, in shale of Hawkesbury age. (Mem. 
Geol. Survey N.S. Wales, Pal. 9, 1895, p. x.) 
