TRIASSIC FLORA OF BALD BILL. 
Distrihution. -'Vxmfi : Tasmania (Morris). Eliaetic : Stormberg 
(8eward), and South America (Szainocha and Kurtz). Jurassic : 
Walloon Series : Queensland (Walkom) ; also Tasmania.®^ 
Thoenicopsis Feistmanteli, nom. mut. 
Plate Xn., figs., 31, 31a. 
Podozamites lanceolatus (non Lindley and Hutton sp.), PAistmantel, 
1877, Palaeontologia Indica, ser. XI., vol. II., pt. 2, p. 91, pi. 
HI., figs. 7-14 ; pi. IV., figs. 1-10. 
Observations. The above form, described by Feistmantel as 
Podozamites lanoeolatus, Lindley and Hutton sp. cannot be referred 
to that species, as already ])ointed out by Prof. Seward,^® who 
further suggests its relationship to Phoenicopsis, in the following 
words : “ The specimens figured by Feistmantel from Upper 
(londwana rocks in India as P. lanceolatus (fig. 813), should, 1 a)n 
inclined to think, be assigned to Phoenicopsis.” 
Feistmantel records the sjiecies as pretty frequent in the Jabalpur 
group of India (equivalent of Upper Lias to Lower Oolite). 
The leaves are slenderer than in P. elongata. The apex is 
acuminate, and the venation parallel and rather closely spaced. In 
some instances there is a median ridging which is merely a longitudinal 
folding of the leaf. 
Fragments fairly abundant in the present series. 
Genus- -PsYGMOPHVLLUM Schim])er, 1870. 
PSYGMOPHYLLUM FeRGUSONI, Sp. 110 V. 
Plate XII., fig. 39 ; plate XHL, figs. 44, 45. 
Description.- The remains of these leaves are not complete, 
but there is sufficient to show that it was flabellate, with crenate 
to wavy margin. The veins are parallel for the most part, with 
occasional distinct anastomosing and also dichotomous branching. 
The veins are stout, and are seen in the negative condition as 
deeply incised lines with a ridge between. The lamina itself ivas 
finely lineated with secondary or merely superficial veins. 
Dimensions.-— Yhe veins are about "O mm. to 1 mm. apart. 
Width of lamina preserved, 21 mm. ; length, 31 mm. 
Comparisons and Observations.- “ Cycdpteris ” crenata 
of Brauns, which was described from the Rhaetic of Brunswick, 
Germanv, is a somewhat similarly flabellate leaf to ours, but the 
U In a letter- rerrolvod in 1912, tiro iatc .Mr-. W. H, Twelveti-ees wrote me tlmf rh,mkopsU ,-lon,julux 
i found aimndirntly tlrrougiiorit the Mesozoic in Tasmania. 
Srrrms’l862;’i.^52fpi. XIII.. flg. 8. ? Psy,j>nophyUum crenalum, Brauns, sp„ Seward, 1919. p. 88. 
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