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alternate, elongately cuneiform, and attenuated or decurrent at the base. No figure 
has, however, been published of this plant, which Sterzel * has more recently nisal to 
the genus Dicranophylium. This is probably the correct position to which the species 
should be assigned, for Sandberger describes the leaves as * supra mediam partem 
bipartita et ad fines pluries furcata." 
Psygmophylium Hollandi, Seward.—In 1905, Prof. Seward described a very frag- 
mentary leaf from the Permo-Carboniferous of Kashmir as ? Psygmophyllum sp. As the 
author then remarked, it is very diffieult to decide as to the genus to which such a 
fragmentary fossil rightly belongs. Judging by his figure, however, I am not inclined 
to include it in the genus Psygmophyllum, as here emended, but to compare it with 
Rhipidopsis or some allied genus. Thesame author + in 1907 figured some leaves, deeply 
divided into long narrow segments, under the name P. Hollandi, sp. nov. "These 
specimens, which were also derived from Kashmir, he regarded as probably specifically 
identical with that mentioned above. They appear to me to agree more closely with 
Ginkgophyllum or some similar genus. 
Psygmophylium |. Delvali, Camb. & Renier $.—Through the kindness of my friend 
Professor Renier, I have had an opportunity of seeing at Liège the type-specimen 
of the large leaf, described by him and M. Cambier as P. Delvali. It appears to me to 
be a large leaf of Cordaites, though in the broad rounded apex it certainly resembles 
Psygmophyllum. 
Cf. Neggerathia flabellata, Carpentier (non Lindl. & Hutt.).—Since these remarks were 
written, I have received, by the kindness of the author, a copy of an interesting paper by 
Abbé Carpentier on some Pteridospermous fructifications. Certain fossils || are there 
compared with P. flabellatum, Lindl. & Hutt., but, so far as I can judge from the figures 
given of them, they are very much smaller and quite unlike the leaves of that plant 4j. 
5. A DISCUSSION OF THE AFFINITIES OF PsYGMOPHYLLUM. 
The six species here referred to the genus Psygmophyllum all appear to have characters 
in common, though it must be borne in mind that we still know very little of these 
ancient plants. It may therefore eventually prove that fossils of dissimilar affinity have 
* Sterzel (07), p. 820. + Seward & Woodward (' 05), p. 6, pl. 9. fig. 3. 
t Seward (707), p. 59, pl. 13. figs. 5-6. 
$ Cambier & Renier (710), p. 23, pl. 6. fig. 1; Renier (10), p. 21, pl. 118. 
|| Carpentier (11), p. 15, pl. 15. fig. 7, pl. 16. fig. 4. ` 
; P. 49, pl, Lo. hg. (p z : : ? Plant 
*| Since this paper left my hands, Professor Seward has published a € on the ed aan rae z 
from the Golabgarh Pass, Kashmir ” (Mem. Geol. Surv. India = Pal. Indica, n. s. vol. iv. i 8, p. in sp x 
In this paper a very interesting Permo-Carboniferous plant is described under - — — A d 
5P. nov, The leaves are “ deeply dissected into six or more obeuneate viis a E : rik d 
petiole as distinct from the flat leaf-segments.” Though, as the author points gr : p du n X bi eds 
“semblance between this plant and species of Psygmophyllum, I should, uec virg on grün agire 
other genus, perhaps Ginkgophyllum, Sap., or Rhipidopsis, Sehmalh., on the groun di of eta ot. ACE, 
Testricted, the leaf does not appear to be divided to, or nearly to, the base into a num d 
April 16h, 1912, 
