Dr, Fcistmantel — The Gondwana Series of India. 489 



M'Coy,^ which also in Queensland ^ is taken as representative of the 

 Mesozoic portion of the rocks. Fhyllotheca, Bgt., however, is best 

 developed in Europe in the Italian Oolite,^ of which one form has 

 all the generic characters ; and nothing of this kind is known any- 

 where in Carboniferous strata. 



Among the Ferns, if we omit for the moment the genus Glosso- 

 pteris, they are throughout Mesozoic forms, such as Macrotceniopteris 

 Feddeni, Fstm., very near to the M. lata, Oldh., Morr., of the 

 Eajmahal Flora;* Alethopteris Lindleyana, Eoyle (belonging to the 

 Mesozoic Group of A. Whithyensis, Gopp., Schimp.) ; an Angio- 

 pteridium,^ very near to A. M'Clellandi, 0. M., from the Eajmahal 

 Series; Sagenopteris, Bgt. ;^ Gangamopteris, M'Coy^ (the latter from 

 Mesozoic rocks in Victoria). Of special value and importance is 

 a Neuropteris, with a single pinnate leaf, belonging to the Triassic 

 Group of Neuropteris of the Vosges (I described it ^ as Neuropteris 

 valida, Fstm.) ; also a typical Actino-pteris^ (J.. Bengalensis, Fstm.) 

 shows the Fern nature of this fossil. 



Cycadeous plants are not absent at all ; '^^ on the contrary, Sir 0. 

 Bunbury's NoggeratJiia Hislopi has its place here ; and I determined 

 besides this another NoggeratJiia from the South Godavari District 

 as very near, if not quite identical with the NoggeratJiia Vogesiaca, 

 Bronn,"and lately a Glossozamites, Schimp., several years since^^ in our 

 collections, which I call at once G. triassicus, Fstm. 



The Coniferee are represented by Voltzia JieferopJiylla, Bgt.; V. 

 acutifolia, Bgt.; and Alhertia speciosa, Schimp., of which the latter 

 two, it is true, have been discovered only last year, but the former 

 has been five years in our collections.-*^ 



About the Triassic nature of this Mora there can be very little 

 doubt, and the occurrence of Glossopteris, Bgt., cannot alter the 

 weight of evidence. 



In the same manner as PteropJiyllum began in the lower Permian, 

 and has very near relations in our Eajmahal Hills (FteropJi. Cot- 

 tcsanum and FteropJi. Carterianum, Oldh.), as PtilopJiyllum, Morr., 

 survived from the Eajmahal Series to the Kachh Group, in the same 

 way as ScJiizoneura, Schimp., survived from the Damudas to the 

 Panchet Group; and as in the Salt range Seller opJton passes from the 

 Carboniferous into the Trias, so Glossopteris, Bgt., passed from the 



1 Ibid. p. 35. 



2 Daintree, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxviii. p. 288. 

 •^ Zigno, Flora fossilis form. Oolitliicse. 



* Some years ago brought by Mr. F. Fedden. 



^ Sir C. Bunbury's Tceniojjt. Danaeoides (?), loc. cit. p. 332, pi. x. 2 ; other specimens 

 a long time since in ours and the As. Society's collections. 



^ Some specimens from Kurhurbari brought by Dr. Stoliczka, 1871. 

 ' Formerly known as Cyclopteris, Bgt. ; many years in our collections. 

 ** Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. ix. No. 3, p. 75. 

 9 Described ibid., brought 1873 by Mr. Hughes. 



10 Mr. W. T. Blanford, 1876, Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. xiii. No. 3, p. 82, is there- 

 fore not right in saying: " Cycads abound in the former, but have not hitherto 

 been found in the latter (Damudas)." They were indeed known long ago ! 



11 Bronn, N. Jahrb. f. Min. Geol. Pal., etc., 1858, p. 129, ff. pi. vi. 



12 Brought from Kurhurbari Coal-field, 1871, by Dr. Stoliczka. 



13 Brought by Dr. Stoliczka from Kurhurbari Coal-field. 



