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gerathiopsis Goepperti (Sclimal.) a species that is now recognised 

 as identical with Cordaites (Noeggemthiopsis) Hislopi (Bunb.). 

 FeistmanteF, who reproduces Morris's original figure of Zeugo- 

 phyllites elongatus, assigns the Tasmanian plant to Podozamites. 

 In 1903^ I expressed the opinion that this species is a Phoenicopsis 

 and figured some specimens from the Stormberg (Rhaetic) series 

 of South Africa as Phoenicopsis elongatus. The leaves reach a 

 length of more than 16 cm. ; the lamina is gradually tapered to 

 an acuminate termination which may be the base, the distal end 

 having a bluntly rounded apex. The veins are parallel and simple. 

 Similar leaves have been described by Szajnocha and by Kurtz* 

 from Rhaetic rocks in South America. In the absence of specimens 

 attached to an axis it is impossible to speak with confidence as to 

 the systematic position of the detached leaves, but they bear a 

 very close resemblance to some of the European examples of 

 Phoenicopsis. The occurrence of these leaves in Australia, South 

 Africa, and South America and the Phoenicopsis-like leaves recorded 

 from India*, though not proving the existence of Phoenicopsis in 

 the later vegetation of Gondwana Land, afford some evidence of 

 its occurrence in the southern floras. 



1 Feistmantel (90) A. p. 150, PI. xxi. fig. 6. 



■■' Seward (03) B. p. 67, PI. ix. figs. 1, 9, 10. 



3 Szajnocha (88) B. p. 19, PI. u. fig. i ; Kurtz (0.3). 



* Feistmantel (77) fig. 9. 



