1S76.] Knowledge of the Fossil Flora in India. 3G5 



Oleandra for Oleandridium. 



Danaea for Danaeopsis, Heer. 



From our Eaniganj Series we have to deal only with Macrotaeni- 

 opteris. 



Gerras Macrotseniopteris, Schimper, 1869. 

 ScMmper, Palaeontol. veget. I. p. 610. 



Frondibus simplicibus, speciosissimis, plus minus elongato, obovatis, 

 obtmis vel acuminatis nonnunquam etiam apice emarginatis, integris, raro 

 irregulariter pinnatifissis, interdumque denticulatis. (Fructificatione Aspi- 

 diacearum, Schimp.) 



With this genus Mr. Schimper placed all the broad-leaved mezozoic 

 forms which are allied to Neottopteris Nidus. 



Our broad-leaved Taeniopterides from the Eajmahal Hills belong to 

 this genus. 



To the palaeozoic forms Schimper would restrict the generic name 

 Taeniopteris, Bgt., in which he is, as I think, quite right, although there 

 is one species in particular, Taeniopteris abnormis,* from the Permian in 

 Saxony, which has nearly all the characters of Macrotaeniopteris, Schimp., 

 the only difference to be detected being in the very close- set veins. 



In a paper on the Taeniopterides from Chemnitz in Saxony,f Dr. Sterzel 

 has redescribed the Taeniopteris abnormis, Grutb., and has found that 

 this species is very closely allied to several mezozoic forms, amongst which 

 are the Macrot. gigantea, Schenk., and our two Eajmahal species Macrot. 

 lata, Oldh. Morr., and Macrot. Morrisi, Oldh.J Dr. Sterzel considers, there- 

 fore, this Permian species also as a Macrot aeniopter is and as a precursive 

 form of several of the mezozoic species. 



The relations of our Eajmahal species with the Ehsetic Macrot. 

 gigantea, Schenk., I have already pointed out in my first note on the fossil 

 plants from the Eajmahal group (Eajmahal Hills). § 



Maceotjeniopteeis Dak^oides, Eoyle sp. (McClell.) 

 PL XIX, Figs. 1, 2 & XXI, Fig. 1. 



1839. Glossopteris danaeoides, Eoyle, Illust. Bot. etc. Hira. M. Tab 2. 



1849-50. McClelland, Eep. Geol. Surv. India, XV. f. 1. 



1876. Feistmantel, Notes on the several floras in India, 



Kec. Geol. Surv. Ind. IX. 3. p. 74. Ibid., IX. 4. 



Fronde speciosa, oblongo-ovata, apice obtuse acuminata, basi attenuata 

 obovata, distinct e pedicellata, ad 34 cm. longa et 10 cm. lata, subcoriacea ; 



* Gutbier, Versteinerungen des Eotnliegenden in Sachsen, 1849, PI. VII. f. 1. 2. 

 f Ueber die Tasniopteriden von Chemintz in Sachsen N. J. f. M. Geogn. 1876. 

 % This however only partly. 

 § Eec. G. S. Ind. IX. 2. p. 36. 



