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The genus Phyllopteris is an old one of Brongniart’s resuscitated by Count 
Saporta * for a jilant from the Ammonites angulatus zone of the Infra-Lias of the 
Moselle, Prance. The portions of fronds from the localities below so thoroughly corres- 
pond with the structure of Phyllopteris, as described by Saporta, that I have adopted 
it in the sense of the latter. 
The relation of Phyllopteris to other Tseniopterids is a very close one, especially 
those with obliquely curved veins, such as Angicypteridium. In the absence of fructi- 
fication, or the system of branching, it is somewhat difficult to indicate the difference in 
words, but the fronds in question certainly do not possess the strap-shaped outlines of 
many TcBniopieris, nor the more or less flabellate appearance of Macrot(Eniopteris,\)'\it 
approach nearest to the first-named genus Angiopteridiwn. As, however, the full frond 
in the latter genus is known to be pinnate with marginal sori, and as nothing whatever is 
known of these characters in the Queensland and South Australian plant, it will be 
better for the i^resent to retain it in Phyllopteris. 
Loc. Stewart’s Creek, Stanwell, near Bochhampton (J2. X. Jack) ; Styx Eiver 
Coal Shaft, Styx River, Broadsound (^The late James Smitli). I have also received this 
plant, through the good offices of Mr. H. Y. Lyell Brown, Government Geologist of 
South Australia, from Cooper’s Creek, Central Australia, about one hundred miles due 
north of the Leigh’s Creek Bore. 
Oenus—MAGUOTMUIOPTBBIS, Schimper, 1869. 
(Traite Pal. Vig., i., p. 610.) 
MACBOT.i:NiOPTEEis wiAieAMATM, Feistmantel. 
Macrotcenioptcris wimmmattce, Feistmantel, Palaeontographioa, Suppl. Bd. iii., 1878, Lief. 3, Heft 3, p. 107, 
t. 13, f 2. 
>> » Ten. Woods, Proc. Linn. Soo. N. S. Wales, 1883, viii., Pt. 1, p. HS, t. lOo. 
Sp. Char. Frond elongately obovate, simple ; base attenuate ; apex ? ; midrib 
thick, grooved, or striated ; veins emerging at angle of 20°-25° close, near the midrib 
from six to eight-tenths of a millimetre apart, slender, dichotomous towards the 
margin. (^Ten. Woods.) 
Obs. The late Rev. J. E. Tenison Woods recorded this fern from Ipswich, 
but added that the dichotomy of the veins is near the rachis, and suggested that in 
consequence it might be a new species. The presumption is, of course, that the veins 
divide nearer the midrib than do those in Feistmantel’s type, but on consulting the 
latter’s figure, it will be noticed that subdivision takes places at various distances 
between the margin and the midrib. This separation vrill hardly, therefore, hold good. 
Loo. Ipswich {The late Bev. J. B. Tenison Woods — Maeleay Museum, 
University of Sydney). 
Maceota)Kiopteei 3 CEASsiTfEETis, Feistmantel ? PI. 16, fig. 5. 
Macrotamiopteris crassinervis, Feistmantel, Pal. Indioa (Gondwana Flora), 1877, i., Pt. 2, p. 102, t. 38, f. 1-3. 
Sp. Char. Frond very large, single, strong, thick, and coriaceous, broad, 
elongately obovate ; margins plain ; apex obtusely rounded, not re-entrant ; midrib 
distinct, but not wide for the size of the frond, vertically ridged ; veins, except near 
the apex, diverging at a right angle, or nearly so, very strong ; distant from one to 
one and a-half millimetres apart, very regular and direct in their course, simple or 
forked ; dichotomisation at irregular intervals, but always dividing close to the midrib. 
Obs. I have ventured to refer this noble frond to Feistmantel’s Macrotamiopferis 
'^rassinervis, from its coarse nervation, and the uniform manner in which the veins 
* Pal. Franj., Plantes Jurassiques, 1873, i., p. 448. 
