138 Bihliographical jVotices. 



Bengal, are published in the Series XII. vol. iii. parts 1, 2, 3 (1879- 

 1881), with SO plates, and vol. iv. parts 1 and 2 (1882-188G), with 

 35 plates. 



The plaufc-remains sent to Prof. Zeiller for examination numbered 

 about 350 specimens, and, although for the most part referable to 

 species already known, they supplied various useful indications of 

 form and structure, especially for seven new species (including one 

 new genus), thus adding nearly 10 per cent, to the 77 species insti- 

 tuted by Feistmantel for the Lower Gondwana. The new forms 

 are : — 



Glossopteris tortuosa, p. 14. 



Schizoneura Wardi, p. 27. 



Phyllotlieca Griesbachi, p. 30. 



Cycadites (?), sp., p. 33. 



Feistmantellia hengalensis, gen. et sp, n., p. 36. 



Araucanti'S Oldliami, p. 36, 



Cardiocarjjus indicus, p. 37. 



Professor Zeiller, moreover, offers some new and important obser- 

 vations on Vertebra ria as the rhizome of Glossopteris (pp. 17-24) 

 and on the specific identity of GI. indica and GJ. comnnmls 

 (pp. 8-12). 



At pages 2 and 3 there is a list of localities, not mentioned by 

 Feistmantel, from which Lower Gondwana fossils have been recentlj' 

 procured. Among these is the locality of Eeohel in the basin of 

 tSouth Ilewah, re-examined by Mr. R. D. Oldham, and where, in 

 the Damuda series, he procured, besides other specimens, a very 

 tine example of Glossojneris indica, consisting of a bunch of fronds 

 >till attached to a fragment of Vertebraria ; and of this he gave a 

 figure in the llecords Geol. Surv. India, 1897. 



In 1861 Sir Charles Bumbury suggested that Vertebraria may 

 have been the root of PhijUotheca. Dr. Feistmantel and others (to 

 1887) made little progress in its elucidation beyond referring to it 

 doubtfully as an Equisetaceous rhizome (see Mem. Geol. Survey Xew 

 South Wales, 1890, p. 87). In 1896, however, Prof. Zeiller was 

 able to figure and describe the relation of some fronds of GIosso- 

 jiteris Browniana to the transverse joints of a Vertebraria in a 

 specimen from South Africa (Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. vol. cxxii. 

 pp. 744, 745 ; and BuU. Soc. Geol. France, vol. xxiv. pp. 351-362, 

 pi. XV. figs. 1-9). He states also, at p. 17, that in the Exposition 

 L'niverseUe at Paris in 1900 there was an analogous specimen from 

 the Transvaal, namely a bunch of large fronds of GJossojyteris indica 

 at the end of a long piece of Vertebraria. Thus, he adds, there can 

 l>e no doubt of the natural attachment of the fronds to the rhizome, 

 ]»ut the constitution of the latter and the interpretation of its 

 imprints are not quite clear. 



At pages 4-6 is a list of localities that have been mentioned by 

 Feistmantel, and in which other species of fossil plants have been 



