93 
“ Frond bipinnate ; pinme long, acutely lanceolate, with a broad alate 
margin ; pinnules elliptical, obscurely undulate, dentate, having three obsolete 
lobes on each side ; veins bipinnate, two branches reaching each lobe of the 
margin.” 
Locality and Horizon . — Not uncommon in the shale of Mulubimba, 
New South Wales (Newcastle beds, Permian). 
Sphenopteris iguanensis, M‘Coy. 
Sphenopteris iguanensis , M l Coy, Prodr. Pal. Victoria, Dec. IV, 187G, p. 22, PI. XXXVI, f. 35. 
„ ,, Tenison Woods, loc. cit., 1883, p. 92. 
“ Frond dichotomously bi-pinnatifid ; segments of usually 5 to 7 lobes 
oblique elongate cuneate, confluent at base, the apices crenulato-lobate by 
small acutely angular indentations ; veins slender, numerous, forked, diverging 
from the base, usually about three to eacli lobe, a few towards the middle 
stronger than the rest, but no distinct midrib ; rachis rather thick ; length 
of pinnules, 1 to 2 inches ; greatest width, usually about 4 lines.” 
Ohs. — Prof. M £ Coy places this species in the subdivision Eremopteris, 
Schimper. 
Locality and Horizon . — In hard olive flags, Iguana Creek, Victoria 
(Upper Devonian). 
Spiienoptejiis lobifolia, Morris. 
Sphenopteris lobifolia, Morris in Strzelecki, loc. cit., 1S45, p. 246, PL VII, figs. 3, 3 a. 
„ „ Dana, loc. cit., 1849, p. 715, PI. 12, f. 12. 
,, „ Unger, loc. cit., 1S50, p. 128. 
„ „ Peistmantel, loc. cit., 1878, p. 87. 
,, ,, Tenison Woods, loc. cit., 1883, p. 88. 
Sp. Char . — Fronde bipinnata; pinnis sublinearibus, elongatis alter- 
nantibus ; pinnulis membranaceis, inferiorum pinnarum pinnulis equalibus, 
ovato-oblongis, ad basim eontractis, approximatis, tribus lobis subequalibus 
utraque in parte uno terminali obtuso ; pinnulis apicem versus acute trilobis, 
ac dccurren tibus, nervis in lobis furcatis. 
“Frond bipinnate; pinnae somewhat linear, elongate alternate; pinnules 
membranaceous, those of the low r er pinnae equal, ovate oblong, contracted at 
the base, approximate, with three nearly equal rounded lobes on each side, 
and a terminal obtuse one ; veins proceeding into each to be divided near the 
