Carboniferous Glaciation , Etc .— White. 305 
to be glacial; but the reasons therefor are not given in full, 
and so far as I know, the opinion has never been corroborated 
by any other author. 
Undescribed plants have been obtained from the Koonap 
terrane. The Beaufort terrane is not well known. Verte¬ 
brate remains, described by Owen and pronounced by him to 
be Carboniferous, and plants consisting of four species of 
Glossopteris and one of Phyllotheca have been found. The 
plants are most nearly allied to those of the Damuda series of 
India, and many of them are also found in Australia. The 
Stormberg beds,consisting of thick, light sandstones, with shales 
and coal seams, contain vertebrate remains and plants, among 
which Dunn, 1 has identified Sphenopteris elongata Pecopteris 
odontopteroides , Cyclopteris cuneata, and Tceniopteris Dain- 
treei , all of which occur in the uppermost plant beds, which 
we shall later review in eastern Australia. Near the coast and 
above the Karoo system lies the Uitenhage group, consisting 
of marine beds alternating with plant beds. The plants be¬ 
long to what is generally accepted as the mesozoic flora. 
The fauna has been studied by Neumayr, 2 who in a recent 
work has assigned the whole group to the Neocomian. 
Though glaciation was thought impossible when proposed as 
a hypothesis to account for the Ecca boulder-beds by Suther¬ 
land in 1869, it was pretty well established by Dunn in 1872, 
by the discovery of striated, grooved, and otherwise glaciated 
stones in the strata near the Orange river. The distribution 
was worked out, so far as geological knowledge extends in 
that part of the continent, and published by him in the Cape 
Colony Government report for 1886. 
Before leaving Africa it may be well, perhaps, to summarize 
the results obtained so far in a table compiled from Jones, 
Wyley, Dunn and others. 
S Uitenhage-Neocomian fauna. —Rajmahal. 
.2 f c . ( Stormberg, 1,800ft., vertebrates,=Panchet & Rajmahal. 
J* J J Beaufort, 1,700 ft.,plants =Damuda. 
0 |K®f§ J Koonap, 1.500 ft., “ not described. 
2 ^ [ Kimberly, (glacial?) 
—Uncomformity— 
1 E. J. Dunn, Notes on the occurrence of Glaciated Pebbles and 
Boulders in the so-called mesozoic conglomerate of Victoria. Trans, 
and Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, xxiv, 1888, pp. 44-46. 
2 E. Holu band M. Neumayr. N. Jahrb. f. Min., 1884, vol. i, p. 279 
et seq. 
