348 J. S. Newberry — Bhcetic Plants from Honduras. 



Glossozamites Stoliczkanus, and should doubtless be included 

 in the same genus, but it seems to me very doubtful whether 

 that should be the same as that for which G. Zitteli stands as 

 the type. 



Anomozamites elegans, n. sp. Figs. 6-8. 



Fronds narrow, elongate, delicate, from half an inch to one 

 inch in width, length unknown ; midrib straight and persistent 

 but slender ; pinnules near base in close contact, as broad as long, 

 forming a scolloped margin to the midrib ; above subquadrate 

 or rhomboid in outline with the lower external angle rounded, 

 the upper subacute, produced ; nerves fine, simple or forked, 

 parallel with the upper margin of the pinnules. 



Among the fossil plants brought from San Juancito by Mr. 

 Leggett are a number of narrow fronds with subquadrate pin- 

 nules which evidently represent the group of cycads which 

 runs through the Mesozoic rocks of Europe, beginning with 

 A. minus Brgt. in the Rhaetic and ending with A. Schaum- 

 ourgensis Dunker, in the Wealden. It is perhaps most like 

 A. gracilis J^atkorst (Sveriges Fossila Flora, p. 43, PL xn, 

 figs. 4-12), but from this as well as from the other species re- 

 ferred to it is distinguishable by the more pointed and pro- 

 duced upper angles of the pinnules. Figure 6 apparently rep- 

 resents the basal portion, fig. 7, the middle and fig. 8, the 

 summit of these fronds. 



Pterophyllum propinquumf Goepp. 



Frond large, pinnules subalternate, linear, long-pointed, four 

 inches in length by one-half an inch in breadth at base, gradu- 

 ally narrowed to the acute extremity, springing from the rachis 

 at right angles ; base sometimes slightly rounded and narrowed, 

 oftener attached by its entire breadth; nerves distinct, simple, 

 parallel. 



The specimens I have of this plant are too few and imper- 

 fect to make a comparison with the species described by Goep- 

 pert entirely satisfactory. The bases of some of the pinnules 

 seem to be slightly contracted and with a few divergent nerves. 

 If this should be shown by better specimens to be a constant 

 character it would bring this plant into Zamites and into close 

 relationship with Z. Penevieri Heer, of which the size and 

 general aspect must have been very similar. 



Pterophyllum JBraunsii? Schenk. 



Of this plant one complete pinnule and several fragments are 

 contained in the collection, but are scarcely sufficient for accu- 

 rate determination. It is evident, however, that we have here 

 the remains of a species of Pterophyllum or Nilssonia remark- 



