(5f)8 



BEPORT — 1884. 





tho beds. So far as Euvopoan fossil plants are concerned, the Damuda flora re- 

 tfOinbles that of the middle or lower Jnrassics more than any other. 



One form, it is lrue,the>SV7(i;()?z(v?;Y?,is closely allied to<S'. primdo.irr from (lie Biintcr 

 or lower Trias oiEiirope. Otlier phiiits have llhuitic atlinities. Jiiit the connections 

 with the Triassic Uora do not si'cm Tiearly equal to tliose .shown with Jurassic 

 plants, and the reason that the Damiida Horn has been classed ns probably Triassic 

 imist be souglit in the impossibility of considerinf? it newer,' if the next overlviii" 

 stajre is classed as Upper Trias or Khictio, and in tlie close allinity wilh'the 

 iiuderlyinfi' Karharbari beds, wiiich contain several Lower Triassic types. 



I'anchft. — The uppermost series of tlie lower Gondwanas consists chiefly of 

 sandstone, and fossils are rare. The most interestin;jr are remains of lieptUia 

 and Amphibia. The following is a list of the fossil animals and plants corrected 

 to the present time : — 



AXIMALS. 

 REPTILIA. 



DixosATRiA. — Anoi.'itrodim, 1 sp. 

 DiCYNOUONTl.v. — I)ic>/nodo)t (r/i/c/iof/nrifJnis), 2. 



AMPHIBIA. 



Labtrinxhodontia. — G(>nioi/hjptus,2) Glypfognathus, 1; Pachygonia,!, 



CRUSTACEA. 

 Esther iu, 1. 



PLANTS. 



OoNlFER-T,. — Samaropsis, 1. 



FiLiCES. — Pecopteris, 1; Cyclopteris, 1; Thinnfchlia, 1; Oleaiulridiinn, 1; 



Glossopteris, 3. 

 Equisexace^i;. — Schizoncura, 1 . 



The Schizoneura and the tJiree species of Glossopteris are considered the same 

 ns Danuida forms. But with them are found two l*]uropean Ilhsetic species, 

 Pecopteris conciinia and Ci/rloptei'is pachj/rachis. The Oleandridium is also closely 

 allied to a European Ilhretic form, and may be identical. The flora may thus be 

 classed as typically llhtctic. 



All the <jenera of Lahyriuthodonts named are peculia'*; their nearest European 

 allies are chiefly Triassic. Dicynodontia are only known with certainty from India 

 and South Africa, but some forms believed to ))e nearly allied have been described 

 from the Ural mountains.'^ The Ural fossils were obtained from rocks now referred 

 to the Permian.^ 



Upper Gondivdnas. — The different series of the lower Gondwanas are found in 

 the same area, restinpf one upon the otlier, so that the sequence is determined 

 <;eologicallj% This is not the case with the upper Gondwana groups; their 

 most fossiliferous representatives are found in diflerent parts of the country, and 

 the relations tn each other are mainly inferred from palreobotanical data. 

 Although, therefore, it is probable that the Riijmahals are older than the Catch and 

 Jabalpur beds, and that the Kota-Maleri strata are of intermediate ape, it is quite 

 possible that two or more of these series may have been contemporaneously formed 

 in regions with a diflerent flora. 



Itdjirwhdl. — The comparatively rich flora of the lowest upper Gondwana .'eries 

 is contained in beds interstratifled with basaltic lava-flows ot ^^he flssure-eruption 

 type. T'-o following are the genera '' of plants found : — 



' Feistmantel, Pal. lid. ser. xii. vol. ill. pp. 57, 129, &c. 



» Huxley, Q. J. G. S. xxvi. p. 48. 



» Twelvetrees, Q. J. G. S. xxxviii. p. 500. 



« Pal. Ind. -scr. ii ; Feistmantel, lire. G. S. I. ix. p. 39. 



