﻿Vol. 64.] PERMO-CARBONIFEROUS PLANTS EEOM VEREENIGINa. 11' 



Yereeniging. The veins are often faintly marked on the im- 

 pressions on the rock, but in some cases the preservation is such 

 as enables us to identify the species without hesitation. 



Glossopteris Browniana, Brongniart. (Text-figs. 4 & 5, p. 116.) 



In former papers on plants of the Glossoptei^is-^orsi the specific 

 name Browniana has been used by one of us in a wider sense, as 

 including Gl. indica and Gl. angustifolia : we now follow Prof. Zeiller 

 in adopting the more restricted use of these specific terms. The 

 fragment shown in fig. 4 consists of the basal portion of a frond, 

 which appears to possess the venation-characters of Gl. Browniana 

 as represented in Prof. Zeiller's drawings of the type-specimen.^ 

 A small piece of the lamina is enlarged in fig. 5 ; the veins are 

 not preserved with sufficient clearness to render possible a larger 

 camera-lucida drawing. 



Glossopteris sp., cf. Gl. retifera, Feistmantel. (Text-fig. 6.) 



Pig. 6 represents a fragment of 

 Fig. 6. — Glossopteris sp., a Glossopteris -ivon^ distinguished 

 cf. Gl. retifera, Feistmantel. from the other Yereeniging species 



by the greater size of the venation- 

 reticulum; the larger meshes are 

 2-5 millimetres long and 1 mm. 

 broad. Glossopteris retifera^ Feist- 

 mantel,^ from the Damuda Beds 

 of India and from Cape Colony, 

 Natal, the Orange -Hiver Colony, 

 and Zululand,^ is characterized by 

 large meshes like those of the 

 Yereeniging fragment. There are 

 also other species possessing a similar 

 type of venation ; but, until more 

 complete specimens are discovered, 

 the solitary example recently found 

 by one of us may be designated 

 Glossopteris sp., cf. Gl. retifera. 



Gangamopteris cyclopteroides, Feistmantel. (PL X, fig. 3.) 



The photograph, reproduced rather more than half the natural 

 size in the figure, shows an imperfect specimen of a frond with the 

 venation-characters more clearly preserved than in any examples 

 previously recorded from this locality. The incomplete leaf is 

 20 centimetres long, with a maximum breadth of 7 cm. ; the lamina, 

 is spathulate, terminating in a blunt apex ; there is no prominent 

 midrib as in Glossopteris, its place being taken by a few crowded 



1 Zeiller (96) p. 363, figs. 8-10. 



2 Arber (05*) p. 83. 



3 Etheridge (01) pi. xii 

 pi. ix, figs. 5-(). 



fig. 7 ; also Seward (07) p. 69, pi. viii, figs. 8, 10 &. 



