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Ohs . — This is the commonest species in India. The leaves are large, 
varying in size ; the midrib is thick ; the apical portion prolonged and the 
apex generally pointed; the secondary veins pass out at an angle of 30°-50°, 
and form long and very narrow anastomoses, which arc only slightly broader 
close to the midrib. 
Locality and Horizon . — I observed this species in the shales of the 
Mersey Coal beds in Tasmania (from there no figures arc given). I also 
think that the two specimens on PI. XVII, Pigs. 2, 6, represent this species, 
although at first I thought that they might represent another type. They 
are from Bowenfels, New South Wales, from the Newcastle beds (? Permian). 
Glossopteris cordata, Dana. 
Glossopteris cordata , Dana, loc. cit., 1849, p. 718, PL XIII, f. 5. 
„ Feistmantel, loc. cit., 1878, p. 92. 
„ „ Tenison Woods, loc. cit., 1888, p. 124.* 
Sp. Char . — Prondc basim versus distincte cordata, lobis rotundatis ; 
nervo medio crasso ; nervis secundariis ad basim reversis, ex medio divergen- 
tibus, nitidc reticulatis, rotia anguste oblonga formantibus. 
“ Proud distinctly cordate towards the base, lobes rounded ; costa 
thick ; veins reversed at the base, diverging from the costa, neatly reticulate, 
with narrow oblong interspaces.” 
Locality and Horizon . — Newcastle beds (Upper Coal Measures), at 
Illawarra, New South Wales. 
Glossopteris elegans, Feistmantel. 
PI. XII, Figs. 3, 3 a. 
Glossopteris eleejans , Feistmantel, Foss. Flora von Australiens, Nachtrag, 1879, p. 155, Pl. VIII, 
figs. 2, 2 a. 
,, „ Tenison Woods, loc. cit., 1883, p. 125. 
Sp. Char . — Pronde mediocri, oblonge-spathulata, mcdiocostata ; costa 
superiore in parte evanescente, ibidem que areolis bijugis, inferioribus oblongis, 
superioribus brevioribus pentagonalibus substitute; nervis e costa, superiore 
* At p. 124, loc. cit., Mr. Tenison Woods states that the four species G. amvpla, G. reticulata, G. elongata, 
and G. cordata were by myself considered “ to be only varieties.” This is a misunderstanding. In my short paper 
(Journ. R. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1880) I have, to save space, named them together in one paragraph, but I did not 
quote them as varieties of each other. 
