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5. (a) Gangamopteris cydoj>teroides. 



(b) A large frond of Glossopteris Browniana, var. indica, 

 characterized in this specimen by the lateral veins being almost 

 at right angles to the midrib. Bunbury has figured precisely 

 this type of frond from Nagpur, India.^ 



(c) Smaller frond of Glossopteris Browniana. 



6 .Part of a long parallel-veined leaf, tapering gradually towards 

 one end. This is no doubt the same plant as that which I 

 recently figured ^ as probably an Equisetaceous stem. I spoke 

 of Draper's specimen as either a leaf or stem, but the present 

 example shows obvious leaf-characters, and makes it probable 

 that these finely-veined fossils from Vereeniging are the leaves 

 of some plant like the European Cordaites or the Southern 

 Hemisphere NoeggeratJiiopsis Hislopi (Bunb.). Eeistmantel 

 has figured some species of the latter plant from the Talchir- 

 Karharbari beds which resemble the African leaves. 



7. A large leaf similar to specimen 6, probably Noeggeratliiopsis 



Hislopi (Bunb.).^ 



On the other side of the rock, Gangamopteris cydopteroides 

 and Glossopteris Broiuniana. 



8. Probably part of a very large leaf, similar to nos. 6 and?. Com- 



pare Titanophyllum, figured by Renault & Zeiller from the 

 Commentry Coal-field.* There is a striking resemblance be- 

 tween the large leaves (6, 7, and 8) and those from Com- 

 mentry and elsewhere referred to Dory cordaites. Compare 

 especially specimen 7 and Dorycordaites from Commentry.^ 



9. Identical with Draper's fossil recently figured.^ This may be a 



small and imperfectly-preserved Sigillaria Brardi (Brongn.), 

 but it is difficult to be sure, owing to the absence of detail in 

 the impression. 



10. Two long and narrow leaves which are apparently folded 



along the median line of the lamina. Probably fronds of 

 Gangamopteris, not fully expanded."^ 



11. Glossopteris Browniana, and fragments of an unknown stem. 



12. Stem? 



The Transvaal Coal Beds have been so often described^ that 

 it is unnecessary here to go into any further detail concerning 

 them. 



^ Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xvii (1861) pi. viii, fig. 1. 



2 Ibid. vol. liii (1897) pi. xxii, fig. 4 h. 



^ Compare Feictmantel, op. jam ciz. pi. siv, fig. 1. 



* ' Flor. Foss. Commentry,' Atlas Soc. Ind. Miner, ser.3, vol. iv (1890) pi. Ixix. 



' Ibid. pi. Ixvi. * 



6 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. liii (1897) pi. xxii, fig. 3. 



''' Ibid. pi. xxi, fig. 6. 



« Penning, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xl. (1884) p. 658, & vol. xlvii (1891) 

 p. 457 ; MolengraafF, Neues Jahi-b. Beilage-Bd. ix (1895) p. 232 ; Draper, Quart. 

 Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. liii (1897) p. 310, & Seward, ibid. p. 315 ; A. E. Sawyer, 

 ' Coal-mining in South Africa,' Newcastle (Stafis), 1890. 



