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without reference to locality, agrees very closely with Brongniart’s 
figures and descriptions. The frond, which is 64 inches long, and 
more than 8 inches across, is bipinnate with a strongly alate rhachis. 
The pinne are long (5 or more inches), opposite, and lanceolate, and 
curved upwards. The pinnules (2 to 1 inch long, and 3 inch broad) 
are subopposite, ovate, with three or more bluntly, and obliquely-cut 
segments on each side. The median nerve is strong, and gives off 
simple, or dichotomizing secondary nerves to each segment and tooth. 
2. SPHENOPTERIS GERMANA, McCoy.* 
Type.—Woodwardian Mus. Camb., Foreign Plant Coll. No. 5 (also No. 3). 
Lo cality.—Mulubimba. 
Sphenopteris germana. 
1847. McCoy (47) p. 150 & pl. x, figs. 2 & 2a. 
1850. Unger (50) p. 127. 
1878. Feistmantel (78) p. 88. 
1883. Tenison- Woods (83) p. 91. 
1890. Feistmantel (90) p. 92. 
The Cambridge type is a small and incomplete specimen of a 
frond, about 2 inches long, the pinnz of which are slightly less than 
an inch in length. In the absence of larger and more complete 
specimens from Australia, it would be unwise to dwell upon the 
characters of such a fragment. It is unfortunate that recent 
writers on the flora of Australia have not been able to obtain 
further specimens of this, and of other species of Sphenopteris, to be 
mentioned. 
(Sphenopteris plumosa.) Specimen No. 3.—McCoy’ also 
figured and described another type as Sphenopterts plumosa, from 
the same locality as the preceding. This is also a mere fragment ; 
in all probability a pinna of a tripinnate frond. It is 2 inches 
long, and 3 inch across. There is hardly any doubt that it is a 
portion of Sph. germana, already mentioned, probably a pinna from 
the median portion of a frond of that plant. The nervation of these 
two specimens, as figured by McCoy, agrees exactly. 
3. SPHENOPTERIS FLEXvOSA, McCoy. 
T ype.—Woodwardian Mus. Camb., Foreign Plant Coll. No. 2 (also No. 59). 
Localit y—Mulubimba. 
Sphenopteris flexuosa. 
1847. McCoy (47) p.150 & pl. ix, figs. 4 & 4a. 
1850. Unger (50) p. 127. 
1878. Feistmantel (78) p. 88. 
1883. Tenison-Woods (83) p. 91. 
1890. Feistmantel (90) p. 91. 
This species appears to approach Sph. polymorpha, Feist.,’ of the 
Lower Gondwanas of India in habit, but the number of segments 
in the pinne are smaller, and the nervation does not perhaps 
1 McCoy spells the specific name ‘ germanus.’ 
2 McCoy (47) p. 150 & pl. x, figs. 3 & da. 
3 Feistmantel (81) vol. iti, pl. xvia bés, fig. 1. 
