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Sabal. Sabal major Heer, as well as other angiosperm leaves 
have long been known (H. B. Medlicott 1864, pp. : 7-99) from 
the Kasauli Beds exposed at the well-known hill station of 
that name. More recently the same species of palm was dis- 
covered in the Murree Beds in outcrops near Murree and other 
places (Feistmantel 1882, p. 51; Pilgrim 1910, pp. 205, 188, 
926). Sabal major has a wide distribution in extra-Indian Ter- 
and England. It is interesting to know that the genus still 
lives in North America. Among its nearest existing relatives 
are Corypha umbraculifera (the Talipot Palm of Ceylon), and 
the genus Chamaerops of which one species is said to occur 
in the Punjab. 
The Tertiary fruits and seeds of India come from the Laki 
Series (see Wadia 1919, p. 216) and from the Pab Sandstone 
of Fort Munro (Vredenburg 1908, p. 244), the latter being Lower 
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Amber has been recorded from the Middle Tertiaries of 
Travancore and of Burma. It is well known that amber is 
applied, have yet been found to enclose any fossils. The dis- 
covery of such remains in the future is, however, not un- 
ikely. 
The well-known table-lands or Karewas of the valley of 
Karewas Kash : 
valley, form such a conspicuous fea- 
ture of the landscape, have generally been regarded as being 
entirely of lacustrine origin. But o 
thickness, reaching several thousand feet, Mr. Middlemiss sug- 
gests that only the upper portions of these beds are to be regard- 
This question is one of those on which the student of fossil 
plants could throw some light. were adequate material avail- 
The only plant-fossils from the Karewas of Kashmir of 
which I have definite knowledge are a recorded from the 
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Gojipatri near Ludar Marg (Godwin-Austen 1864, p. 383). 
More recently Middlemiss found in the same neighbourhood 
well-preserved leaves which have been referred to such recent 
genera as Quercus, Alnus, Buxus, and Cinnamomum (Middle- 
miss 1911, pp. 120-21 ). 
During the interval that has elapsed since these plants 
