— 489 — 
Ann. §S. Afr. Mus., vol. iv, pt, 1, 1903, p. 85, pl. x, fig. 1: 
Arber, The Glossopteris Elora, 1905, p. 116, fig. 28, pl. vi, 
fig. 4. 
1905. Neuropteridium Plantianum (Carr.) D. White, Science, 
n. S., vol. Xxi, p. 700. 
Frond long and linear, pinnate, rachis strong, bearing pinnules 
which in the lower part of the frond are entire and more or less 
semi-circular in form, and gradually pass into longer and lobed 
segments as we ascend the rachis. The longer pinnules, which may 
reach alength of 6 cm. or more, are not attached by the whole of the 
base, like the stouter and broader segments in the basal portion of 
the frond, but the basal lobe of the upper edge of the segment is free 
rom the rachis. Apex of pinnules bluntly rounded. Veins spreading, 
curoing towards the edge of the pinnules with repeated dichotomous 
branching, and converging inthe lonyer segments to form a fairly 
distinct midrib in the lower part of the lamina. 
The above description is quoted from Professor Seward’s very inte- 
resting treatment of the species published in the first volume (p. 85) 
of the Annals of the South African Museum. This very important 
and characteristic type of the Gangamopteris flora does not happen to 
be present in the collection before me though it was first discovered 
and described from Brasil. Professor Kurtz (1) has described and 
illustrated the same plant, which is now reported from several loca- 
lities in Argentina. The species occurs in South Africa as well as in 
India and South America. A form said to be nearly related to Neuropte- 
ridium Plantianiuim is reported by Johnston (2) from Tasmania. 
The identity of Carruthers’ Odontptcris Plantiana with Feist- 
mantel’s Neuropteris valida, first suggested by Zeiller, (3) has since 
been confirmed by both Seward (4) and Arber (5) each of whom has 
examined the original Carruthers types. There is therefore no question 
as to the priority or application of the name earlier proposed by Car- 
ruthers, which should prevail, notwithstanding the unfamiliarty with 
(1) Revista Mus, La Plata, vol. vi, 1891, p. 427, pl. i. 
(2) Papers and Proc. R. Soc, Tasmania, 1885 (1887), p. 471. Newropteris Tasmantensis. 
(3) Bull. Soc, Géol. Fr., (3) vol. xxiii, 1896, p. 616. 
(4) Ann. S, Afr. Mus., vol. iv, pt. 1, 1903, p. 86. 
(5) The Glossopteris Flora, 1905, p. 419. 
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