September 21, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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it will be seen that the Gondwana forms were 

 present in the lowest sediments of the series, 

 while the Northern elements, appearing a little 

 later, seem to become more abundant and varied 

 in the higher beds. 



The total flora, so far as yet discovered, is in 

 the following 



LIST OF THE FOSSIL PLANTS FROM THE COAL-FIELDS 

 OF BRAZIL. 



Reinschia australis Bert. & Ben., var. brasili- 

 ensis n. var. 



RoselUnites Gangamopteridis n. sp. 



Hysterites bra^siliensis n. sp. 



Equisetites calamitinoides n. sp. 



Schisoneura? sp. 



Phyllotheca Griesbachi Zeill. 



Phyllotheca Muelleriana n. sp. 



Phyllotheca (?) sp. 



Lyco'podiopsis Derbyi Re. 



Lepidodendron Pedroanum (Carr.) Zeill. 



Lepidophloios laricinus Sternb. 



Sigillaria Brardii Brongn. 



Sigillaria australis n. sp. 



Sigillaria sp. 



Sigillaria (?) muralis n. sp. 



Sphenopteris Jiastata McCoy? 



Sphenopteris sp. 



Psaronius brasiliensis Brongn. (Not repre- 

 sented in the collection.) 



Neuropteridium Plarvtianum (Carr.) D. W. 

 (Not represented in the collection.) 



Glossopteris Browniana Brongn. 



Glossopteris indica (Brongn.) Schimp. 



Glossopteris ainpla Dana. 



Glossopteris occidentalis n. sp. 



Glossopteris sp. 



Vertebraria sp. 



Gangamopteris obovata (Carr.) D. W. 



Ottokaria ovalis n. sp. 



Arberia minasica n. g., n. sp. 



Derbyella aurita n. g., n. sp. 



Noeggerathiopsis Hislopi (Bunb.) Feist. 



Cardiocarpon Seixasi n. sp. 



Cardiocarpon Moreiranum n. sp. 



Cardiocarpon Olif)eiranutn n. sp. 



Cardiocarpon Barcellosum n. sp. 



Voltzia? . sp. 



Dadoxylon Pedroi Zeill. 



Dadoxylon nummulariiim n. sp. 



Dadoxylon meridionale n. sp. 



Carpolithus? sp. 



Hastimima Whitei n. g., n. sp. 



Although the number of forms, forty in all, is 

 not large, it Avill at once be noted that it em- 



braces representatives of the four dominant and 

 characteristic groups of the older Gondwana flora ; 

 namely, Phyllotheca, Glossopteris, Gangamopteris 

 and Nozggerathiopsis, all of which are present in 

 identical oriental species'. 



I. C. White. 



MORGANTOM'N, W. Va., 



August 1, 1906. 



THE FOREST DISTRICTS OF UGANDA. 



A Journey of inspection tlirongh the most 

 important forest areas of the Uganda pro- 

 tectorate has lately been made by Mr. M. T. 

 Dawe, officer in charge of the forestry and 

 scientific department, who gives the results of 

 his observations in a parliamentary paper, 

 according to the abstract in The Geographical 

 Journal. The largest forests (as shown in a 

 sketch-map accompanying the report) lie along 

 two strips of country, one running near the 

 west and northwest shores of the Victoria 

 Nyanza, the other following a more or less 

 parallel line through the extreme west of the 

 protectorate. Mr. Dawe describes each forest 

 in turn, and though his point of view is main- 

 ly economic, many details of scientific interest 

 can be gleaned from the report. A discovery 

 was that of the Lagos silk rubber tree (Fun- 

 tumia elastica) as an indigenous element, 

 while several new species of Landolphia, some 

 of economic importance, were also brought to 

 light. Of the first forests visited, that of 

 Bujeju in Buddu occupies a low-lying tract 

 near the lake, some parts of which seem once 

 to have formed part of the latter. The forest 

 seems comparatively new, and to be gradually 

 encroaching on the interior plains. It con- 

 tains no good rubber-vines, though they are 

 found in adjoining areas. One of the trees 

 found in this district, though not of large 

 size, is a variety of the valuable Podocarpus 

 milanjianus, which occurs practically on the 

 lake-shore. Of the western forests, that of 

 western Ankole occupies a large area east of 

 Lake Albert Edward. It is largely composed 

 of three trees — Carapa grandiflora, Symphonia^ 

 glohulifera and Parinarium excelsum. Mr. 

 Dawe remarks that almost every forest in 

 Uganda possesses its own special character. 



