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published by Feistmantel (1) and by Zeiller (2) under this name. Other 
fragments from Brazil show the lamina to narrow gradually downward, 
slightly asymetrically, to a thick petiole in agreement with the leaves 
from the Orient. 
The apex of the leafof Glossopteris indica narrows toa more or 
less distinctly pointed tip. Figure 8, Plate vi, illustrates a very narrow 
form of leaf. Although this fragment is not much narrow than those 
from the Raniganj group illustrated by Feistmantel (3)Ionly with doubt 
include it in this species, on account of its unusual narrowness and the 
relative simplicity and straightness of the very oblique nervation ata 
little distance from the midrib. 
The nervation in our material is generally fine, close, and parallel, 
with narrow elongated areolation which is but slightly larger near the 
midrib. It follows that our specimens correspond to those described by 
Feistmantel (4) as Glossopteris communis. The latter species has, 
however, fully been shown by Zeiller (5) tobe inseparable from Cilosso- 
pteris indica. 
In the aspect of the nervation our specimens are exactly compara- 
ble to those from India, illustrated in the South Rewah Flora by Feist- 
mantel (6) and Zeiller (7), and, in particular, in the material from South 
Africa, published by Seward (8) as Glossopteris Brovwwniana. var. indica. 
Glossopteris indica differs from Glossopteris occidentalis, to be 
described later, by its narrowed petiolate base, by its shorter leaves and 
its lack of parallelism in the lateral borders, and by the oblique and 
arching nervation which is more equally anastomosed. 
Glossopteris ampla is separated from Glossopterts indica by the 
greater size of the former, its round, obtuse, or emarginate apex, and 
the nearly parallel direction of its nerves, whose anastomoses are 
much more strongly marked in the region of the midrib. 
Localities : Estrada Nova near Minas, Santa Catharina. About 40 
meters below the Barro Branco coal, 1385 meters above the granite, 
or 145 meters below the Iraty black shale. Lot. 3923. Roof of the 
(4) Fl. Gondwana Syst.. vol. 3, pt. 2, pl. sxva, figs. 1, 3, Sce also Glossopteris 
communis, Loc. cit.. pl. xxxva. 
(2) Palaeontologia Indica, n. s. vol. II, no. 4, pl. i, figs. 4. 2. 
(3) Fl. Gondwana Syst., vol. iii, pt. 2, pls. xxiva, and xxisa fig. 4. 
(4) Fl. Gondwana Syst., vol. isi, pt. 2 pl. xxvia, figs. 1, 4. 
(5) Bull. Soc. géol. France, (3) vol. xxiv, p. 36). 
(6) Fl. Gondwana Syst vol iv, pt. 2, pl. IA, figs. 1, 2. 
(7) Palasontologia Indica, n. s, vol. 2, no. 1, pl. i, fig. 4, pl. ii, fig. 4. 
(8) Quart. Journ, Geol. Soc., vol. liii, pl. xxi, figs. 2, 3. 
