1S76.] Knowledge of the Fossil Flora in India. 315 



SCHIZOSTETTKA GONDWANENSIS,* Fstlll., PI. XVI, FigS. 1 — 3. 

 1S76. Feistmantel, Pec. Geolog. Surv. Ind. IX, 3, p. 69. 



Trunco articulato ramoso, caulef articulato, striaio, variabili aliitu- 

 (7/ ne ae latitudine, foliolis 12 — 22, plerumque duas in partes vaginae coali- 

 tis, nonnunqmm etiam liber is suberectis ; foliis (partibus vaginae) oblonge 

 ovalibus, usque ad 14*5 cm. longis et media in parte 2 - 5 cm. latis ; 7 — 11 

 nervos (singulorum folioruni) continent ibus. 



On this species I will here make only a few short remarks, as full 

 details will be given later on. 



a. It is very closely allied to Scliizoneura paradoxa, Sch. M.,J the 

 only difference being that our species has the portions of the vagina broader 

 and has therefore more veins (indicating the leaflets which by their 

 coalescence have formed the vagina). 



b. As in Scliizoneura paradoxa the portions of the spathe are some- 

 times found burst into the original leaflets : and thus we find it in our 

 Eaniganj species, but more frequently with only the apes of the spathe 

 split as indication to further bursting ; in our figures two leaflets (figs. 1 

 and 2.) exhibit this state, and on a future occasion I will illustrate this 

 further. 



c. Scliizoneura paradoxa is a typically Triassic fossil. We may, there- 

 fore, consider our species also as Triassic. 



d. The Damuda species is not different from that in the Panchet group, 

 which latter I have also designated Scliizon. Gondwanensis.§ 



e. It occurs, therefore, in both members of the lower portion of the 

 Gondwana system, and from this circumstance I derived the specific name. 



f. No Scliizoneura is as yet known from Australia|| with certainty, 

 and to consider the genus Zeugophyllites, Bgt.,^[ as Scliizoneura, as Messrs. 

 T. Oldham** and H. F. Blanfordft have done, would be merely a sup- 

 position, as every one must recognise at once and that very easily the 

 great difference between these two fossils. It is also incorrect to consi- 

 der, as Mr. W. T. BlanfordU has done, the Australian Noggeratliia as 

 ? Scliizoneura, the two latter genera being quite as distinct as the two 



* I give here only 3 little figures as all the other specimens will be figured in the 

 Flora of the Damuda Series in the Palceontoloyia Indica. 



f Foliifero. 



% L. c. pp. 50, 51. Pis. XXIV— XXVI. 



§ E. GL S. Ind. IX. 3. p. 66. 



|| I mean from the lower coal-measures, in which marine fossils predominate. 



IT Prodrome 1828, pp. 118-121 ; Streleczki, Phys. Descript of New South-Wales, 

 1815. ' 



** M. Geol. S. Ind. II, p. 327. 



ft Q- J- G-. Soc. 1875, p. 527. 



XX Pec. G. S. Ind. IX, 3. 



