INCERTA] SEDIS. 
Here are included a few seed and scale-like fossils, the positions of 
which are, however, not certainly known. 
Cakdiocaupxjm (?) austuale, Carruthers. 
Cardiocarpum australe, Carruthers in Daintree, loc. cit., 1872, p. 356, PL XXVII, f. 4. 
Sp. Char. — Fructa cordata, apice acuminata; semine ovato acuto. 
Ohs . — Nothing is said about the possible relationship of this fossil. 
Locality and Horizon. — Tivoli Mines, Queensland (Upper Jurassic). 
Samahopsis (?) sp. 
Ohs. — In the Indian plant beds, especially in the lower and middle 
division, there occur certain winged seeds, the relation of which to certain 
plants, and consequently their systematic position, is not quite clear. They 
resemble very much similar seeds described by Prof. Ilcer under the name 
Samaropsis, and which were figured by Prof. TIcer in his Jurassic Flora of E. 
Siberia and the Amur Countries, and also by Prof. Schmalhausen from the 
Altai, Tunguska lliver and the Petschora country. From India I have 
figured them in several of my papers ; quite recently in Pal. Indica, Vol. IV, 
Pt. 2, 188G (Gondwana Flora), p. 45, PI. NIV, A., Figs. 7-15. 
Quite similar seeds occur in the Australian Fossil Flora, where I have 
only recently identified them amongst the plants from the Mersey Coal beds, 
Tasmania (Permo-Carboniferous.) 
Squam.e g ymnospe rm aru m ? 
Ohs. — Those peculiar scale-like fossils, which I have identified amongst 
the Indian plants, also occur in Australia ; some of them were figured by 
Dana {loc. cit., p. 714, PI. XII, Figs. 1-8) from the Newcastle District, and 
I have identified them from the Mersey Coal beds, Tasmania (Permo- 
Carboniferous). They have also been figured by Prof. Schmalhausen, but 
their nature remains doubtful, and their occurrence is only interesting as 
illustrating further their wide distribution under similar circumstances. 
They may, perhaps, be, like the above seeds, Samaropsis, in some 
connection with the genus Noggerathiopsis, respectively with the genus 
Rhiptozamites in Siberia, which circumstance would explain their occurrence 
and distribution in the above strata and countries. 
