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REPORT — 1903. 



Honduras, Tonkiu, China, Turkestan, India, Australia, South America, and elsc- 

 Avhere, was characterised by its uniform character throughout the world. 



Schizoneura Krasseri sp. nov. 

 Strobolites sp. 



Tkin7ifeldia odonopteroides (Morr.) 

 Tkiniifeldia rhomboidalis, Ett. 

 Cladophlebis sp. (Feistmantel). 

 CalUptendimn sluvmherijensc sp. nov. 

 Taniopteris Carndhei-si, Ten.- 

 AVoods. 



Chiropteris cunecita (Carr.) 

 Chiropteris ZeiUeri sp. nov, 



Baiera stonnbergeyisis. 



Baiera Schenchi, Feist. 



Phcenicopsis elongutwi (Morr.) 



Stenopteris elonyata (Carr.) 



.3. Permo-Carhtyiufcrous Flora of Vereenvj'xng, — The conclusion to be drawn 

 from the Yereeiiifring plants is that they belong to a flora which flourished in 

 South Africa, India, South America, and Australia during some portion of the 

 Permo-Oarhoniferous epoch. On the whole, it would seem probable that the age 

 of the plant-beds corresponds most nearly with the Upper Carboniferous period as 

 represented in Europe. It is of necessity difficult to attempt to express the 

 geological age or homotaxy of South African beds in terms of the geological 

 chronology of the Northern Hemisphere, but the close correspondence of some of 

 the Vereeniging types with Indian and South American species points to their 

 correlation with the Karharbari beds of the Lower Gondwana system. The 

 occurrence of such types as Sigillaria, Bothrodendron, and Psycimophx/ilnin shows a 

 closer con-espondence between the South African flora and that of the Northern 

 Hemisphere than occurs in the Indian vegetation. We have evidence of an over- 

 lapping or comtningling of the northern and southern botanical provinces in South 

 Africa and in South America that is not afforded by the Lower Gondwana floras 

 of India and Australia. 



Glossopteris Broiomana, Brongn. 



Under this head may be included — 

 at least for present purposes — 

 G. indica and G. an </usti folia. 



Ganr/amoptrris cijclopteroides, Feist. 



ISphenopteris sp. 



Newopf.evidium validum, Feist. 



I'syr/mophyllum Kidstoni sp. nov. 

 Sii/illara Brardi, Brongn. 

 Bothrodendvon Leslii sp. nov. 

 Naec/(/erathiopsis Hislopi, Bunb. 

 Conites sp. 

 Cardiocarpus sp. 

 Bhi/llotheca sp. 

 Schizoneura sp. 



A detailed account of the above species will be published in a fortbeoming 

 volume of the Annals of the South African Museum.^ The writer is indebted to the 

 oincers of the Geological Survey of Cape Colony for the opportunity of examining 

 the collections from which these lists have been compiled. 



3. On a Carhoniferoiis Acanthodian Fish, Gyracanthides. 

 By A. Smith Woodward, LL.D., F.E.S. 



The author exhibited and described a restored drawing of Gyracanihides from 

 the Carboniferous of Victoria, Australia. The fossil had pectoral fin-spines much 

 like those named Gyracantlms from the Carboniferous of the northern hemisphere, 

 but these spines lacked posterior denticles. The fish was either toothless or with 

 minute teeth which had escaped observation. It was covered with dense shagreen, 

 but there were no enlarged plates round the eyes. The body was depressed and 

 broad in front, with a small and not very stout tail. The pectoral fins were 

 relatively large, with almost sickle-shaped spines, while the pelvic fins were rather 

 small, with straighter spines, and situated very far forwards. There were two 

 pairs of peculiar free spines near the base of the pectoral fins. The two dorsal 

 tins and the anal fin were provided with much smaller spines. Gyracanthides was 



Annals S. African Museum, vol. iv. 1903. 



