206 0. Feistmantel — A sketch of the history of the [No. 3 



similar ones, described as belonging to cycadeaceous plants, with which I 

 have thus classed them (Gycadinocarpus). 



Class CONIFERS.* 

 This large class of plants, so widely represented in present times, was 

 also not uncommon amongst the Gondwana fossils, especially in the upper 

 portion, and the GingJco-like forms are of special interest. 



Order Abietacej3. 



Genus Voltzia,f Bgt. 



Voltzia heterophylla,% Bgt. 



1879. Feistmantel, Talchir-Karharbari Flora, Gondwana Flora, Vol. Ill, p. 25, 

 PI. XXII— XXIV, fig. 4 ; XXV. 



Lower Gondivdnas : a. Karharbari beds, Karharbari coalfield ; b. 

 Maniganj group, (?) South Rewah basin. 



These are leaved and branched specimens. 



But there is a scale-like impression, from the Raniganj group, of the 

 Raniganj coalfield, which has great resemblance with similar scales, attri- 

 buted to Voltzia as fruit scales. 



Genus Albert ia,§ Schimp. 

 Albertia sp. (eomp speciosa, Schimp.) 

 1879. Feistmantel, ib. 3 I. c, p. 29, Pis. XXIV, 3 ; XXVI, 2 and ? XXIV, 1, 2. 

 Occurring together with Voltzia in Europe and India. 

 Lower Gondwdnas : Karharbari beds, Karharbari coalfield. 



Genus Palissya,\\ Endl. 

 JPalissya conferta,^ (Oldh. sp.) Feistm. 



1862. Cunninghamites, Oldham in Eajmahal Flora, I. c, (no description), 

 Pi. XXXII, figs. 9-10. 



1877. Eajmahal Flora, ?. c, p. 183, Pi. XLV, 4-9, XLVIII, fig. 4. 

 Upper Gondwdnas : a. Rdjmahdl group near Bindraban, Murero and 

 Onthea, Eajmahal hills ; Golapili South Godavari district and Sironcha 

 sandstones near Anaram on the Pranhita river C. Pr. ; b. Sripermatur group 

 (and Maleri beds) in the Sripermatur area ; at Chirakunt and Jangaon, 

 middle Godavari, basin. 



* Conebearing plants. 

 f Proper name (Voltz.). 

 X "With leaves of two kinds. 

 § Proper name (Albert). . 

 || Proper name (Palissy). 

 IT Confertus = dense. 



