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Genus— AN GIOPTSRIDIUM, Schimper, 1869. 
(Traits Pal. V^'., i., P- 603.) 
AlTSIOPTEBIDirM, sp. itid. 
Angiopteridium emis, Ten. Woods (nmi Oldham and Morris), Proc. Linn. Soo. N. S. Wales, 1883, viii., Pt. 1, 
p. 119. 
Obs. The fossil identified by the late Eev. J. E. Tenison Woods with the above 
species does not appear to accord either with the description or figure of Messrs. Old am 
and Morris. In the first place, the Eev. Author’s diagnosis and remarks (the first two 
paragraphs of his observations on this species), which are presumedly made on his 
Australian specimens, are, with one or two trivial alterations, copied verbatim from 
Oldham and Morris, and do not apply in the least degree to the latter. 
The original specimens, now in the Macleay Museum, at the Sydney University, 
were obligingly lent to me by the late Prof. William J. Stephens. 
The fronds are long and narrow, nearly three inches, and that without being 
perfect, ribbon-like, or hnear-lingual, hardly tapering, and parallel- sided. The midrib 
is wide and llaltoned. The veins are very distinct, wide apart, very oblique to the mid- 
rib, and verv little curved, being almost straight. They bifurcate at about one-thiiM 
from the midrib. The veins do not fork p.articularly near the margin, and the latter is 
not in any way serrated ; the former, measured along the margin, are about one miUimetre 
^ ^ The outline of the frond is much more that of Angiopteridium spatliulaGm, but the 
venation is wholly different. I have not succeeded in identifying this fern with the 
limited bibliography at my command, hut in the event of its being undoscribed I propose 
to name it M. Tenison-Woodsi. 
Loo. liosewood, near Ipswich {The late Rev. J.R. T. Woods Macleay Museum, 
University of Sydney). 
Genus— PHTLLOPTRRIS, Saporta, 1873. 
(Pal. Fran?., Plantes Jurassiques, i., p. 448.) 
Philloptebis Peistmakteli, sp. nov. 
Sp. Char. Frond, or leaflet, oval, or broadly lanceolate, slightly petiolate ; mid- 
rib very distinct, evanescing towards the apes of the leaflet, hut tapering very slowly ; 
veins springing outwards from the midrib at a very acute angle, then grace u y 
curving outwards to the margin, fine, once or twice furcate. ^ 
Obs. The form of the leaflet appears to be constant and characteristic, those 
from Queensland and South Australia agreeing closely. The veins bifurcate A'’®* ^ar 
the midrib, and either proceed in this form to the margin, or again divide at about halt 
the distance between the latter and the midrib. Near the apex the midrib evanesces 
into a few distributed veins. Phyllopteris Feistmanteli is very distinct from Saporta s 
type, P. phmula* both in the form of the leaflet, and from the many times dichoto- 
mising veins of the latter. _ . , i- i 
The species is named in honour of the late Dr. Ottokar Feistmantei, formerly 
Palaeontologist to the Geological Survey of India. . i . i, +1 r 
At first sight, and when superficially examined, the frond might he taken tor 
a Glossopieris ; in fact, I had them sent to me by Collectors from Queensland as such. 
The venation of Glossopieris is of the well-known reticulate type, that ot Phyllopteris 
is simply furcate ; the one being a member of the family Dietyotamiopteridse, the 
other of the Taeniopteridie. 
* Pal. Fran?., Plantes Jurassiques, 1873, i., p. 450, t. 63, f. 6. 
