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types, the former occurring in India and Australia, the latter in England and else¬ 
where in Europe. Coniopteris hymenophylloides Brongn., and Nilssonia compta (Phill.), 
are other widely distributed fossils in Jurassic sediments in various parts of the world. 
Sphenopteris (Ruffordia) Gcepperti Dunk, is more essentially a Wealden plant, though 
it is also known from Jurassic rocks in Europe and Antarctica. 
Among the Cycadophytes, Ptilophyllum acutifolium occurs in the Jurassic of India 
and Antarctica. The genus Podozamites, of uncertain affinities, is represented by a 
new species in New Zealand- 
Turning to the Con if ergo, we have Elatocladus conferta (0. & M.) and Araucarites 
cutchensis Feistm. occurring in Jurassic rocks in India and Grahamland. Pagiophyllum 
peregrinum (L. & H.) is a fossil first made known from the Lower Jurassic of Britain. 
The Jurassic flora of New Zealand, as a whole, offers another illustration of the 
world-wide distribution of the plants of this period. 
The following species here recorded from New Zealand are also British : 
Cladophlebis denticulata (Brongn.). 
Tceniopteris vittata Brongn. 
Coniopteris hymenophylloides (Brongn.). 
Sphenopteris (Ruffordia) Gcepperti Dunk. 
Nilssonia compta (Phill.). 
Pagiophyllum peregrinum (L. & H.). 
Of extra-European Jurassic floras, the closest analogy is perhaps to that of the 
Upper Gondwanas of India, in which the following New Zealand plants also occur :— 
Tceniopteris crassinervis (Feist-.). 
T. Daintreei McCoy. 
T. vittata Brongn. 
Ptilophyllum acutifolium Morr. 
Elatocladus conferta (0. & M.). 
Araucarites cutchensis Feist. 
Among the floras of the Southern Hemisphere, the comparison with the Australian 
and Tasmanian Jurassic plants is more remote -than might be anticipated, but this 
may be partly due to the fact that these southern floras are still very imperfectly 
known. The following species, however, are common to New' Zealand and Australia :— 
Cladophlebis australis (Morr.). 
Thinnfeldia odontopteroides (Morr.). 
T. lancifolia (Morr.). 
T. Feistmanteli (Goth.). 
Tceniopteris crassinervis (Feist.). 
T. Daintreei McCoy. 
Coniopteris hymenophylloides (Brongn.). 
Sphenopteris Currani (T.-W.). 
Elatocladus conferta (0. & M.). 
No Jurassic plants are known from South Africa, and those recorded from South 
America are too few .to form the basis of any comparison with the New Zealand flora. 
The Jurassic flora of Grahamland(l), though as a whole specifically distinct from 
that of New Zealand, has, however, a certain number of types in common, particularly— 
Cladophlebis denticulata (Brongn.). 
Sphenopteris (Ruffordia) Gcepperti Dunk. 
Coniopteris hymenophylloides (Brongn.). 
Elatocladus conferta (0. & M.). 
Araucarites cutchensis Feist. 
(1) Halfe (1913 1 ). 
