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parallel as to require close scrutiny to perceive the very oblique con- 
necting bundles, except near the borders of the leaf. 
Professor Seward (1) after a critical examination of Carruthers’ 
original type, now in the British Museum, is convinced that the Brazi- 
lian plant is identical with Feistmantel’s Gangamopteris cyclopteroi- 
des, the common and almost omnipresent (not yet known from New 
South Wales) species of the Lower Gondwana flora. In this specific 
combination of the the indian and South American forms under 
the same name, Arber concurs, (2) again after an examination of 
Carruthers, type, which Zeiller had previously referred to Euriphil- 
lum as probably identical with Buriphylum Whittianum (3). There 
can be no question as to the agreement and specific identity of a 
number of the forms described from India with the leaves from the 
Brazilian coal measures, and consequently there seems to be no room 
for two specific names for these plants. In this I agree with the emi- 
nent British paleobotanist, though disagreeing as to which name 
should be given preference. 
However, it should be observed that while the variety a(fe- 
nuata of Gangamopteris cyclopteroides and the variety major seem 
to be indistinguishable from the variations in the Brazilian leaves, 
none of the very large broad leaves, with broad bases or rounded 
lower borders and arching nervation like those originally illus- 
trated by Feistmantel (4) and which he later (5) figurs as showing 
all the characters of the original leaves from the Talchir shales, have 
come to my hand from Brazil. 
Forms corresponding to the varieties subauriculata, areolala, and 
cordifolia do not seem to he present in the collections, though their 
occurrence in South America mav be revealed bv further search in the 
field. 
On the ther hand the specimens from Arroio dos Ratos, figured 
by Zeiller (6) as Gangamopteris cyclopteroides var. attenuata ave bro- 
ader toward the base than any of the specimens in our collections, 
Icxamples with still narrower cuneate bases, figured by Feistmantel 
(4) Anu. S. Afe. Mus., vol. JV, 1903, p. ‘lo. 
(2) The Glossopteris Flora, 1905, pp. 106, 111. 
(3) Bull. Soe. Géol Fro, vol. NXT, 1896. p. 617. 
(4) Llora Gondwana Syst., vol. If, pt. 4,.187). p. 12, pl. VII, VUI, IX, ete. 
(5) Op. cil. vol. iii, Expl. to pl. xxxi. fig. %. 
(6) Bull, Soc. Géol. France, (3) vol, xxiii, 1896. pl. x. fix. 1, 2. 
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