80S 0. Feistmantel — Contributions towards the [No. 4, 



It shows that the leaf was much bigger than those of the species just 

 described, and that the veins are much closer together and are not so straight 

 and stiff as in Macrotaeniopteris Feddeni, Fstm. from the Kamthis, 

 so that I would not venture to identify it with this species. 



I mention this specimen only to show that another kind of Macrot- 

 aeniopteris also occurs at Raniganj besides Macrot. danaeoides, and I am 

 sure that further investigations will furnish more fossils of this kind. 

 These Macrotaeniopterides establish a palseontological relation between 

 the lower and upper portions of the Grondwana system. 



Type Vittaria, Swartz. 



Genus Palseovittaria, nov. 



On pi. xix, fig. 3 is figured a splendid specimen, which from the charac- 

 ters of the veins must be considered a fern. There is a distinct midrib 

 {rJmchis, costa) in the lower part of the frond, pretty broad, becoming 

 thinner upwards and vanishing completely in the apical portion. 



The secondary veins pass at very acute angles towards the margin, 

 where they are a little incurved ; they are single " and forked as in 

 Taeniopteris, but the specimen cannot be placed with this genus, and 

 recalls, as Dr. Kurz informs me, in this character the nervation of the 

 living genus Vittaria only, so that I use for our fossil the generic name 

 Falaeo v ittaria. 



Diagnosis. — Frondibus simplicibus, oblongato-ovalibus, costa apicem 

 versus evanescente. Net^vis secimdariis sub angulo acutissimo eggredienti- 

 bus. Nervatio Vittarise. 



There is only one species, which I call 



Pahzgovittaria Ktjrzi, n. sp., PL XIX, Figs. 3 — 4. 



Frondibus aggregatis, simplicibus, oblongato-ovato-spathulatis, margine 

 integris, nonnunquam apice excisis, nervo medio (costa) infer iore in parte 

 crassiore, dimidiam partem versus evanescente ; nervis secimdariis sub angulo 

 acutissimo e rhachide exeuntibus, in parte apicali radiantibus, simplicibus 

 et furcatis ; marginem versus incurvatis, sequente precedentem ea in parte 

 attingente. Frioctificatione non obvia. 



About 9 fronds come out from a common point ; they are generally 

 oblong- spat hulate, entire on the margins, but they are sometimes deeply 

 emarginated and therefore bilobate at the apex. 



The chief characters are in the midrib and in the secondary veins ; 

 the former is well developed and distinct in the lower portion of the leaf, 

 but in the upper portion this vein vanishes, becoming dissolved in the secon- 

 dary veins. 



