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of assigning Feistmantel's seeds Carpolithes Milleri 1 to the genus 

 Glossopteris : among several specimens from the Lower Gondwana 

 rocks of India I found an example showing a seed partially covered 

 by a scale-leaf in its natural position which appears to be identical 

 with scale-leaves of Glossopteris. It may be that the specimen 

 represented in fig. 433 belongs to Cardiocarpus indicus, though 

 this is a mere guess : my belief is that Ottokaria is a cupular 

 organ that enclosed the base of a seed borne on a Pteridosperm. 

 There is little doubt that as additional data are obtained it will 

 be found that Pteridosperms played no inconsiderable part in 

 the vegetation of Gondwana Land. 



Strobilites. Schimper and Mougeot. 

 Strobilites Milleryensis (Renault). 



This species, from the Permian of France, was placed by 

 Renault in Cycadospadix 2 , but having regard to the fact that it 



FIG. 434. Strobilites Milleryensis. (Natural size; after Renault.) 



differs essentially in habit from Mesozoic examples of that genus 

 the provisional name Strobilites 3 is suggested. The type-specimens 

 are long and narrow spikes or loose strobili, 8 16 cm. long and 

 2 2-6 cm. broad; a stout axis bears spirally disposed bracts 

 810 mm. long attached by a slender decurrent pedicel expanded 

 distally into a fan-shaped laciniate lamina with a convex upper 



1 Feistmantel (79) B. p. 30; (81) A. p. 59, PL xxx. fig. 14; (82) B. p. 43, 

 PL xv. figs. 512. Dr Arber [(05) B. p. 205] has substituted for Carpolithes 

 the more appropriate designation Cardiocarpus. 



2 Renault (96) A. p. 329; (93) A. PL LXXIII. 



3 Schimper and Mougeot (44) A. p. 31. Seward (08) B. p. 101. 



