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tion (1) in the mesh. The areolation in an elongated mesh is con- 
tinued to the border. 
As illustrated in our Fig. 9, Pl. vi, the anastomosing is so elongated 
and the nervation so close and parallel in the South American specimens 
as at first glance to suggest Zaeniopteris or Macrotaeniopteris. These 
fragments strikingly resemble the Glossopteris musaefclia of Bun- 
bury (2) from the Kamthi group at Nagpur in India. This species 
which has been known from but the single locality, has recently 
been combined with Glossopteris ampla by Arber (3) after an examina- 
tion of Bunbury’s types. The Brazilian form is almost equally illus- 
trated by the material figured by Jack and Etheridge (4) from the 
Bowen Rlver beds in Queensland, and by Feistmantel (5) from the New- 
castle sereis in New South Wales. Professor Zeiller (6) has illus- 
trated a specimen similar in form and superficial aspect, from the 
Damuda series, as Glossopteris indica. 
Locality : Estrada Nova near Minas, Santa Catharina. About 135 
meters above the granite, or 145 meters below the horizon of the Iraty 
black shale. Lot 3923. The types of the species, from New South Wales, 
are under no. 1359 in the Palaeozoic plant collection in the United 
States National Museum. 
Glossopteris occidentalis n. sp. 
Pl. vii, Figs. 1-4, 4a. 
Leaf very larg, rather thick, taeniate, broadly cordate at the 
sessile base, the laterai borders parallel, rapidly converging near the 
top to form an acuminate or acute opex ; midrib very broad, per- 
sistent to the apex ; lateral nerves emerging at an acute angle and at 
once arching strongly while anastomosing somewhat irregularly in 
relatively larg polygonal but more or less elongated meshes near the 
midrib, then quickly assuming a direction nearly at right angles to the 
(1) The areolation midway to the margin are drawn much too broad and angular in 
Dana’s illustrations. 
(2) Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., vol. xvi’ 1861, p. 329, pl. viii, fig. 6. 
(3) The Glossopteris Flora, p. 78. 
(4) Geol. of Queensland, 1892, pl. xvi, fig. 7. 
(5) Mem. Geol. Surv. N. 8. W., Paleont., no. 3, 1890, p. 122, pl. xix, figs. 1, 2. 
(6) Pal. Indica, n. s. vol. II, no. 4, pl. ili, fig, 1 
